Kaitlan Collins mixes up Kari Lake in tense interview

CNN Kaitlan Collins reminded Arizona Senate candidate lake Kari, who was interviewed late Monday after the latter repeatedly refused to concede her defeat in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election.

Lake lost the race to a Democrat Katie Hobbs To just over 17,000 votes. She never admitted defeat and filed several lawsuits that ended in court.

Ahead of her general election next week against Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), she joined CNN Source to discuss the battleground Senate race and other topics. Throughout the lengthy interview, Lake – a former news anchor in Phoenix – refused to say whether she believed she lost the election to Hobbs.

Collins asked, “So you’re not going to say whether you lost the 2022 race or not, I hear that?”

Lake and Collins then went back and forth about the 2022 election and who was conducting the interviews:

LAKE: Well, I want to make sure that our election is done correctly, and I’m still fighting a lawsuit, so I don’t want to talk about it. But I want to look forward. And it’s so funny that the media. Caitlan, wait. Detain. The media can’t handle this. You say I can’t handle this and it looks like you can’t.

COLLINS: I don’t think I said that. I just said you conceded the race, and I know you mentioned your lawsuit. You have filed several lawsuits. Were any of these lawsuits successful?

LAKE: Wait, Caitlan. We had maybe ten questions, and they were all about elections or abortion. And although these are big problems, they worry me. You haven’t asked a single question about inflation and the cost of living. We can’t afford to live in Arizona anymore. In our three cities, we have the fastest-growing rental prices in the country.

COLLINS: So you’re not going to answer the question of whether you lost the election?

LAKE: I actually think you wanted to ask me about the issues that people care about, and people care about our wide open border. They care that 21 million people came to your city, to my city, across the country.

COLLINS: Do you think people care whether you are willing to accept the results of an election that was free and fair, and that you followed multiple lawsuits that went nowhere? And I should mention the libel suit that was filed against you. You haven’t disputed a statement from a top Arizona election official saying you lied about him repeatedly.

LAKE: Well, I think you wanted to ask: Kari, things are really tough right now.

COLLINS: With all due respect, I’m doing this interview, but you’re not answering these questions. And if that’s your answer, that’s fine.

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