New Poll Delivers Good News for Kari Lake Senate Race

A new poll conducted by Bluespring Polling delivered some good news to Arizona Republican Kari Lake over a potential 2024 Senate race against incumbent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.

“An early 2023 survey of likely general election voters illustrates that Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s path to reelection is both complicated and unprecedented. Sinema runs a distant third in a hypothetical three-way race in the general that also includes 2022 GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego,” the survey reported.

Check out some of the poll’s findings below:

Kari Lake polls at 36% in a three-way Senate race with Gallego and Sinema. The congressman follows closely at 32% while the incumbent polls less than 14%. One in six voters are undecided. Sinema draws support from both Republicans and Democrats—she gets the vote of 15% of Biden 2020 voters and 11% of Trump 2020 voters.

23% of Biden voters remain undecided in the race (compared to 13% of Trump voters), suggesting that some Democrats may be waiting to see how the race shakes out before backing a candidate. Still, Sinema’s best hope for a return to the US Senate may be for the Republican party to nominate a candidate so flawed that moderate and conservative voters would abandon that person for the Independent Sinema.

Sinema gets very little support from Hispanic voters, garnering 3% of their vote (Gallego leads Lake 41%-39% with this group), while Sinema gets the support of 17% of white Arizonans. Notably, Gallego does better with women by about 4% than with men and Sinema enjoys a similar positive differential with men.

Despite the positive polling news, Lake is intent on taking her election fraud lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court.

Just recently, Lake filed appeals as well as a motion to have her lawsuit heard by the Arizona Supreme Court.

“Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson ruled against Lake’s challenge after finding the court was not presented with clear and convincing evidence in the widespread misconduct, she alleged influenced the election results,” Fox News reported. “Lake, on Wednesday, filed an appeal with the Appeals Court on Judge Thompson’s ruling. She also filed a motion to send the appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court, asking to skip a step with the Appeals Court. Arizona’s Supreme Court denied the request to transfer the appeal.”

On Wednesday evening, Lake posted the following on Twitter: “My court case will be going before the Appeals Court prior to the Arizona Supreme Court because it’s already been scheduled for review. This decision was done without prejudice & I am confident the case will end up in their hands eventually. We’re moving forward.”

My court case will be going before the Appeals Court prior to the Arizona Supreme Court because it's already been scheduled for review.

This decision was done without prejudice & I am confident the case will end up in their hands eventually.

We're moving forward.

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) January 5, 2023

Follow me on Twitter @CollinRugg!