CNN’s Dana Bash Presses Kari Lake on 2020 Election Lies, If She Will Accept Losing the Arizona Governor Race (Video)
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CNN’s Dana Bash pressed Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for Arizona governor, on her insistence that the 2020 presidential election was “corrupt” and pushed if she will accept a loss in the upcoming race.
“You called the 2020 election ‘corrupt,’ ‘stolen,’ ‘rotten’ and ‘rigged,’ and there was no evidence of any of that presented in a court of law or anywhere else, that any of those things were true,” Bash said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. “So why do you keep saying that?”
When the Republican candidate responded that “there’s plenty of evidence,” and falsely claimed that there were “740,000 ballots with no chain of custody,” Bash interjected, asking “where is the evidence of that?” Lake suggested she would send over the information to CNN, but noted that the problem is that “the media won’t cover it.”
“We’ve covered this extensively, and what you just said has been debunked,” Bash retorted while Lake responded, “only one side of it.”
“The real issue, Dana, is that the people don’t trust our elections,” Lake continued. “They haven’t since 2000. I’m a reporter, I’ve been sitting on your side of the desk for a long time and since 2000 we have Americans who don’t trust our elections,” she said, citing elections presidential elections in 2000 and 2004.
Bash quickly countered by noting Al Gore conceded the election in 2000, as did John Kerry in 2004 and Hilary Clinton in 2016, and underscored, “we didn’t see that in 2020, that’s the difference … Are you undermining faith in elections by saying that the 2020 election was stolen when there’s absolutely no evidence to support that?”
“We have serious problems … and you want to have me on here and talk 2020 election,” Lake shot back at Bash, to which the host explained, “I would never bring this up ever had you not been bringing this up consistently on the campaign trail.”
The CNN host also pushed the Arizona candidate on whether she would accept the results of the upcoming race, regardless of if it is a win or a loss. After not answering the question twice, Lake eventually said “I’m gonna win the election and that will be the result,” and refused to entertain the possibility of losing.
