Lake, with her decades in the Arizona public eye, could again be competitive with Hispanic support as she was in 2022
In Arizona, where Hispanic voters make up 25% of eligible voters, Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego’s campaign has already expressed an intense interest in activating Latinos to historic levels in his bid to win the seat held by independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.
The importance of the Arizona Senate race is unquestioned, as it will be one of the closest in the nation and could decide partisan control of the country.
But with Sinema’s run for re-election uncertain, where does Republican candidate Kari Lake fall when it comes to Hispanic voters who could serve as kingmakers in the tight contest?
The former local broadcast TV mainstay who fiercely aligned with former president Donald Trump in her losing bid for governor in 2022, while embracing the Big Lie that he won the 2020 election, did well with Latinos that year compared to Republican Blake Masters who lost his Senate race to Sen. Mark Kelly.