Kari Lake

Kari Lake Halperin ( KAIR-ee; born August 23, 1969) is an American former television news anchor, former candidate for governor of Arizona in 2022, and current United States Senate candidate in Arizona for the 2024 election.

Beginning her media career in the early 1990s, Lake was the anchor for the Phoenix television station KSAZ-TV from 1999 to 2021. She stepped down from her anchor role shortly before announcing her candidacy in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election.

Lake won the Republican nomination with the endorsement of former president Donald Trump. Her campaign was marked by various controversies, including promoting false claims of Trump winning the 2020 presidential election and calling for the imprisonment of those who accepted Trump's defeat, including her Democratic opponent, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. Lake lost the election to Hobbs, but Lake refused to concede and sued multiple times in an attempt to have the results overturned and herself declared the winner. Her lawsuits were rejected by the courts.