Still not 'duly elected' ... anything -- Kari Lake, TFG Endorsee

RTH10260 · #2676

rock, hard place

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OK, who wants him first?

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Richer

p0rtia · #2679

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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kari-lake-2668078593/

There are rumblings from Donald Trump insiders that the former president is growing increasingly concerned that former TV personality Kari Lake will blow the GOP's chances of picking up a Senate seat and that her unpopularity in Arizona will also hurt his re-election chances.

It was previously reported that the former president became annoyed with Lake because she was causing him problems with his wife Melania because of her constant presence at his Mar-a-Lago resort. On Monday, the Washington Post reported the rift also was based over Trump's concerns she is not out doing enough campaigning.

As the report notes, the race to fill the seat being vacated by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) is one of the most closely watched in the 2024 election and Lake, a political novice with one failed bid for statewide office in 2022, is expected to face Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-

Adding to Lake's woes is her undoing the damage of her attacking Arizona's McCain Republicans whom she disparaged during her losing 2022 bid, as well as distrust from GOP higher-ups in her state who are still furious with her for secretly recording the former state party chair asking her to reconsider running.

According to the new Post report, there is growing tension between the Trump and Lake camps that she will be a detriment in a close election and that Trump has had to urge her to decamp from Mar-a-Lago and get to work winning over voters.

#2682

Basically the same story, from WaPost (gift link): https://wapo.st/4bjywO5

Flatpoint High · #2683

Look who's following me on TikTok!!!!!!!!!!

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Whoa.

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Hold on to your wallet, Flatpoint!!!

bob · #2686

I'm shocked, shocked the court didn't rush this to an evidentiary hearing without discovery (which appeared to be Lake's strateregy will be default).

If this schedule sticks, discovery closes August 30.

But I would not be surprised if Lake attempts to FA/FO, which causes discovery to be extended.

#2687

In the meantime we should find her a nice porcelin albatross to place in her living room. Full size. Laquered stand. Very pretty.

#2688

This is the election case "appeal". Story from last week.

Kari Lake’s lawyer apparently doesn’t know how appeals work

Appellate judges listening to arguments Thursday in Kari Lake’s challenge to her 2022 election loss had to keep reminding her lawyer how appeals courts work.
“I’m sure you’re aware we’re not a fact-finding court — we’re a court that decides questions of law, primarily,” Judge Peter Eckerstrom told Kurt Olsen, Lake’s attorney, shortly after he began his arguments.
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More than once during the proceedings, which lasted less than an hour, the judges had to remind Olsen, a Washington, D.C., employment attorney, that the function of the appeals court is to determine if the trial judge made mistakes in interpreting and applying the law, not in determining the facts of the case.
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At the end of the hearing, Eckerstrom attempted one final time to push Olsen to make arguments that are appropriate for an appeals court.

“We are a court of law and we don’t decide facts in the first instance, and the thrust of what you’ve been arguing in your summation is facts and fact findings,” Eckerstrom told Olsen. “Could you identify what the trial court did wrong, as a matter of law? What’s your primary argument that the trial court did as a matter of law?”

Olsen answered that the trial court judge improperly set the bar too high in requiring that Lake prove election fraud, instead of a lower bar of unintentional error or suspicion that the results couldn’t be trusted. He added that the purportedly new evidence regarding the tabulators showed that county officials tried to downplay ballot printer and tabulator issues on Election Day.

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Olsen answered that the trial court judge improperly set the bar too high in requiring that Lake prove election fraud, instead of a lower bar of unintentional error or suspicion that the results couldn’t be trusted.

That's exactly right. Any time anyone has just a suspicion that the results of an election can't be trusted, the whole election needs to be thrown out and done again. That's what he's asking the court to rule. Stupid asshole.