Kari Lake says, would work with the Legislature to clean up the voter rolls, citing concerns that voters were receiving multiple ballots.|| Gage Sizemore
By Stacey Barchenger || Arizona Republic
Republican candidate for Arizona governor Kari Lake touted her plans to secure the border, expand trade skills training for high schoolers and reform elections in a 30-minute televised interview on Sunday.
The interview, filmed Saturday at the studios of AZTV7 in Phoenix, was the culmination of weeks of back-and forth-over whether Arizona’s two gubernatorial candidates, Lake and Democratic nominee Katie Hobbs, would meet on a debate stage.
Hobbs has refused to do so, and Lake has not let voters forget — bringing up the issue in the first minute of her interview, saying Hobbs “was not courageous enough to show up.”
Instead of a debate, Lake fielded questions from Mike Broomhead, a conservative commentator who hosts a show on Phoenix talk radio station KTAR. He opened by asking about elections, saying it was the topic most people asked about in questions submitted to the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission, which sponsors the two-decade-old debate series.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake at the studio of AZTV7 for a 30 minute televised Q&A with talk radio host Mike Broomhead on Oct. 22, 2022.
Lake said she would work with the Legislature to clean up the voter rolls, citing concerns that voters were receiving multiple ballots, and reiterated her distrust of ballot counting machines, or tabulators. When Broomhead asked if Lake would end early voting, Lake didn’t answer. She previously joined an unsuccessful lawsuit filed by the Arizona GOP to end the practice.
