Kaitlan Collins joins Kari Lake in tense interview

CNNs Kaitlan Collins the Arizona Senate candidate reminded Kari Lake, who conducted their Monday night interview after the latter repeatedly refused to concede her 2022 loss in Arizona’s gubernatorial race.

More lost the race to the Democrat Katie Hobbs Through just over 17,000 votes. She never admitted defeat and initiated several legal actions that failed in court.

Ahead of her general election contest next week against Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), she joined CNN The Source to discuss the battleground Senate race and other topics. During the lengthy interview, Lake — a former news anchor from Phoenix — declined to answer whether she thinks she lost her election to Hobbs.

Collins asked, “So you’re not going to say whether or not you lost the 2022 race, is that what I hear?”

Lake and Collins then went back and forth about the 2022 election as well as who conducted the interview:

LAKE: Well, I want to make sure our elections run smoothly, and I’m still involved in a lawsuit, so I don’t want to talk about that. But I do want to look ahead. And it’s so funny that the media. Kaitlan, wait a minute. Wait a minute. The media cannot ignore it. You say I can’t get over it, and it looks like you can’t.

COLLINS: I don’t think I said that. I just said you gave up the race, and I know you mentioned your lawsuit. You have filed several lawsuits. Have all these lawsuits been successful?

MORE: Hold on, Kaitlan. We’ve probably had ten questions, and you’ve had them all about elections or abortion. And while those are big issues, I care about them. You asked zero questions about inflation and the cost of living. We can no longer afford to live in Arizona. We have the fastest growing rents in the country in three of our cities.

COLLINS: So you’re not going to answer the question of whether or not you lost the election?

LAKE: I actually think you wanted to ask me about the issues that people cared about, and people who care about our wide open border. They care that 21 million people have poured into your city, my city, across the country.

COLLINS: Do you think people will care if you’re willing to accept the results of an election that was free and fair and that you’ve gone through multiple lawsuits that have gone nowhere? And I must note a defamation lawsuit filed against you. You didn’t dispute it — from a top Arizona election official — who says you repeatedly lied about him.

LAKE: Well, I think you meant to ask, is Kari, things are very difficult right now.

COLLINS: With all due respect, I’m conducting this interview, but you’re not answering those questions. And if that’s your answer, that’s fine.

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