Kari Lake digs in on 'rigged' election claims in court despite softer campaign rhetoric

Republican Kari Lake is attempting a rebrand as she ramps up her campaign for U.S. Senate, even as she continues to litigate her 2022 loss in Arizona's governor's race.

In recent weeks, the conservative firebrand has extended olive branches to Republicans she burned during her 2022 race for governor, in a bid to win the moderate bloc whose support could be crucial to her ongoing campaign. She has courted national GOP leaders to support her candidacy, receiving the backing of at least one top Republican lawmaker.

And she has largely replaced her fierce insistence that the 2022 gubernatorial election was “rigged” against her — a claim which, for nearly a year, was the centerpiece of her political brand — for Republicans’ poll-tested messaging on issues such as border security and inflation.

Announcing her Senate campaign in a speech in early October, Lake discussed the issue of election integrity only obliquely.

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