Kari Lake Brings Down The House At RNC, Confronts Mainstream Media

Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake pointed to members of the media and told them they were not welcome at the Republican National Convention during her address on Tuesday evening.

“Welcome, everybody who’s watching at home and welcome everybody in this great arena tonight. We love you all. Actually, actually, wait a minute… I don’t mean that. I don’t welcome everybody in this meeting, in this room,” Lake said while pointing to the press gallery. “The guys up in the fake news have worn out your welcome. You’ve worn it out guys.

The press was immediately greeted with boos and taunts, causing Lake to briefly pause.

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“You have spent the last eight years lying about President Donald Trump and his amazing patriotic supporters. Actually, guys, they lie about everything. They’ve lied about Joe Biden’s health, the economy, the laptop, the border. I could go on and on and on. But the really good news is that every day more and more people are turning off the fake news,” she continued. 

Lake’s criticism of the mainstream media appeared to anger veteran pollster Frank Luntz, who took to X to complain. “I’m on the media platform as she is attacking the media. Convention goers are yelling at the people around me – it’s a really strange experience,” he wrote.

Elsewhere in her speech, Lake drew some of the loudest cheers of the early part of the Republican National Convention’s second night.

“The problems we face are huge. The problems caused by the Democrat party, but the solutions guys, they’re really simple. First of all, stop the Biden invasion and build the wall. Easy,” she said. Lake again briefly paused her speech while the crowd erupted into chants of “build that wall!”

“And while we’re building the wall, let’s kick Bidenomics to the curb and bring back the MAGAnomics. Is that okay?” the senate hopeful continued. “I miss the strong Trump economy. And because I’m a mama bear, I want to replace this indoctrination, this psychological abuse they’re inflicting on our children with a real solid quality education. It’s all common sense. The great news is that we can solve these problems and to be honest we must solve these problems for the sake of our children because that’s really what this is all about, right?”

Lake was one of several Republican Senate candidates to speak on Tuesday evening. The crowd also heard from Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania, Sam Brown of Nevada, and Bernie Moreno of Ohio, among others.

Republicans will be hoping to take advantage of a favorable Senate map in November, when Democrats will be defending more than 10 seats.