NBC News reporter Vaughn Hillyard offered a scathing analysis of Republican Kari Lake’s loss in the Arizona governor’s race during Tuesday’s “Morning Joe.”
He argued that Lake’s decisions to predicate her campaign on “trying to sell the ‘big lie’”Democrat Katie Hobbs was ultimately defeated by her campaigning with people like Steve Bannon, Sen. Wendy Rogers and others.
“When she wonders how she lost the race, look at it,”Hillyard stated. “This is the third election cycle in a row in which Arizonans rejected Trumpism.”
Hillyard, who appeared from Mar-A-Lago in Florida, compared covering Lake’s campaign to “Donald Trump’s campaign of 2024.”
“This is an individual who just last week called her Democratic opponent “a pervert.” This is an individual who suggested there should be perp walks for elections officials, criminal charges for individuals who oversaw the Covid response in Arizona…She called the media the right hand of the devil, the scourge of the earth,” Hillyard said. “If that doesn’t sound like Donald Trump, I don’t know what does.”
According to Hillyard, Lake’s loss marked the latest in a “clean sweep”candidates for the election-denier category.
“Now Donald Trump will try to run on the message that they lost on,”He concluded.
Expect the former president to announce a possible 2024 presidential run as soon as Tuesday.
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