Cancel the 2024 GOP primary. Kari Lake says Trump already won, so no vote needed

Kari Lake wants to cancel next year’s Republican presidential primary.

“This primary is over,” she proclaimed on Wednesday, tweeting the results of a Fox New poll that shows Donald Trump with a commanding lead over Ron DeSantis and other potential Republican opponents.

“It's time to rally around @realDonaldTrump. We must focus our energy on exposing that fool @JoeBiden, registering voters, and funding ballot chasing operations in swing states. We should not be wasting time and money fighting ourselves.”

Yeah, who needs democracy?

Neither Democrats nor Trump want to debate

Apparently, not Lake, who is so busy currying favor with Trump that she’s willing to throw away your right to have a voice in who will be the Republican nominee in 2024.

And not the Democratic Party, either.

With Joe Biden’s entry this week into the 2024 race, the Democratic National Committee has said it has no plans to hold presidential primary debates next year. Biden has declared that he’s good to run the country until he’s 86, so no other Democrats need apply.

This, as a new poll shows 52% of Democrats don’t want him to run again.

So that’s it? No debates for Democratic voters who might want to size up potential alternatives to reelecting a guy who is already the oldest president in American history?

Trump has already said he might not attend certain Republican primary debates, citing his “seemingly insurmountable lead” in the polls.

Kari Lake wants to declare the GOP race over

Now along comes mini-me, saying we should just declare the race over.

“This isn’t 2016. Donald Trump has proven his conservative bonafides,” Lake’s “War Room” account tweeted on Thursday. “He is going to win this primary by a considerable margin. Democrats are going to clear the field for Biden & spend 18 months relentlessly attacking Donald Trump. Why shouldn’t Republicans do the same to Joe?”

Maybe because 47% of Republicans aren’t supporting Trump?

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Or maybe because we don’t hold coronations in America? We don’t dictate to the American people who will lead the American people.

If Kari Lake’s boneheaded idea gets any traction, there would be no need for any debates because there would be no choices for Republicans.

Voters need better options than this

I certainly understand why Lake is not a firm respecter of democracy. Heck, she still fighting the results of an election she lost five months ago.

I also understand why she would want to clear the decks for Trump. She is auditioning to be his No. 2, and what better way to curry favor than to cancel his chief rival, DeSantis, before he even announces he’s running?

Head him off before we see what the next year will bring for Trump and the various investigations into his conduct — including the still-open and extremely important question of just how far he was willing to go to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

But last I looked, this was still America and if ever there was a crying need for options, it’s now.

Yet there is the DNC, telling us there’s no need for debate about who should be the Democrats’ pick.

And there is Lake — who claims to be the leader of “the biggest political movement that the state of Arizona has ever seen” — saying Republicans don’t even need to vote.

Is this now what democracy looks like?

Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LaurieRoberts.

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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Kari Lake says Trump shouldn't have to run in a primary election