Ex-GOP Comms Director Gets in Kari Lake’s Face Over Election Denialism: I Wish You’d ‘Stop Talking About this Fake Thing!’
Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake got into it with Tim Miller when the Republican former comms director argued that her election denialism detracts from more important issues.
Miller and Lake have faced off on the latter’s election denialism in the past, which Lake responded to with personal insults. The two recalled this exchange when they met again over the weekend, which Lake had filmed and shared on social media to preempt The Circus.
The Circus on Showtime sent out a couple of clowns to interview me.
It doesn’t have to be this painful for the Propagandists in the fake news.
We could have a great conversation if they would just ask honest questions about the issues that Americans are concerned about.… pic.twitter.com/mqGiTixFhO
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) November 12, 2023
One of the most interesting moments of exchange between Lake and Miller was when the latter suggested that Lake would be able to do a lot more to speak out about the economy and the fentanyl crisis if she didn’t devote her entire political brand to pushing Donald Trump’s lies about mass electoral corruption.
MILLER: You say you care about the financial crisis and…
LAKE: I care deeply.
MILLER: So if you care so deeply about this, couldn’t you actually do something about it if you stopped the bullsh*t about the last election? If you had just acknowledged that Trump had lost it, and acknowledged that you’d lost, you probably might be probably be in good shape to do something.
You probably would have won your governor’s race had you talked about things people cared about instead of the election fraud. So sometimes, don’t you ever think to yourself ‘I wish I could just stop talking about this fake thing that Donald Trump made me make up that I could actually talk about the stuff that’s important?’
The two continued to hold their meeting of the minds, with Miller summing it up as “We have some areas of agreement. We agree on the fentanyl thing, and then you get into the other stuff.”
“I’m sorry that we don’t agree on everything,” said Lake. “But what I am not sorry about is that I think that you — I do believe that we can agree that we both love America.”
Miller noticed that the clip wound up getting circulated on Twitter, and he took it rather well:
Apparently Kari Lake released a fishbowl camera video of our interview.
Well, in addition to the seriousness of the fentanyl crisis, another thing we agree on is that this exchange is worth watching! https://t.co/jcCGW3OHRt
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) November 12, 2023
Watch above.
