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U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake claimed without evidence Sunday that Democrats are allowing undocumented immigrants to flood across the border as part of a nationwide plot to pad voter rolls while registering that group for Medicare and Medicaid benefits.
The Republican front-runner echoed the "great replacement theory" favored by white nationalists as she mixed accusations of election fraud with welfare fraud to a credulous Maria Bartiromo on her Sunday Morning Futures show on Fox News.
Lake has repeatedly employed these themes, in part to explain her 2022 gubernatorial loss. Lake is currently running for the U.S. Senate seat held by U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has urged Lake to focus on matters such as inflation and the rising number of illegal immigrant entries, not election denialism. On Sunday, Lake seemed to again conflate the border situation with election outcomes.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/12/kari-lake-pushes-replacement-theory-favored-by-white-nationalists/73664349007/
captain queeg
(10,436 posts)My immediate thought is Crackpot. Even if they might same a few things that I believe they are crackpots underneath it all.
JoseBalow
(2,830 posts)Or you just believe what crackpots believe? I don't get it
captain queeg
(10,436 posts)That seems pretty obvious to me. I cant explain it in simpler terms than that.
JoseBalow
(2,830 posts)Like Great Replacement Theory. Hard not to judge someone based on that.
Irish_Dem
(49,145 posts)And they are proud of it.
dutch777
(3,078 posts)Unfortunately, this works with a frightening number of voters who ought to know better but are no more interested in being educated by the truth than they are in turning off Fox News.