‘Our jaws DROPPED’: Why Kari Lake waited 11 months to release alleged bribery tape
A leaked recording between Kari Lake and Arizona GOP Chairman Jeff DeWit revealed that powerful people “back east” would stop at almost nothing to get her out of the Senate race.
Lake tells Glenn Beck that she recorded it because after DeWit was persistent that he came over to talk to her instead of discussing what he had planned on the phone, she “just got a bad feeling about it.”
Lake also was under the impression that there might be a threat, asking herself why he’d want to come to her door to talk to her.
“I just thought if there’s a threat, if he’s gonna’ threaten me, I need to have this on recording,” Lake says.
After the recording was released, DeWit resigned.
“His resignation letter was bizarre,” Glenn says, adding, “Why would he resign and say I’m resigning because of her threat that she’s got more tapes?”
Lake tells Glenn that there were no more tapes.
“And that’s what is so disturbing about it, that he thinks that his behavior has been so unethical, that he thinks there’s worse stuff out there,” she says.
The tape itself was recorded 11 months ago, but Lake didn’t release it until now.
“I didn’t want to release anything, and I also didn’t listen to it. I taped it because I was afraid there was going to be a physical threat, and when there wasn’t, I just kind of put the file away and never even dealt with it,” Lake says.
It wasn’t until recently that Lake relistened to the tape with her husband and daughter, horrified that it was “so much worse” than she remembered.
“My daughter was shocked. She said, ‘Tell me that guy doesn’t work in politics anymore.’ I said, ‘He heads up the Arizona GOP,’ and she said, ‘What are you going to do about it Mom?’” Lake recalls.
“I didn’t really want to put that out, but how disappointing when your kids hear something like that, and then you just sit on it,” she adds.
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Attention: Don't give a dime to the GOP until it admits who tried to BRIBE Kari Lake
The head of the Arizona GOP, Jeff DeWit, is stepping down after audio tapes with U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake were released.
In the audio tapes, DeWit is heard telling Lake to stay out of this year’s Senate race and instead focus on running for governor.
Glenn Beck is furious.
“The people on my side, if you will, some of them are corrupt,” Glenn says.
Kari Lake had initially aired the bribery last year at CPAC, where she said that someone in the GOP “back east” tried to bribe her to keep her from running for the Senate.
In the audio, the head of the Arizona GOP is heard asking Kari if there’s a number for which she can be bought.
“You can take a pause for a couple years, and then go right back to what you’re doing,” he tells Lake, who responds with, “No. 10 million, 20 million, 30 — no, no. A billion, no. This is not about money. This is about our country.”
“I am not going to let these people who hate our country tell me not to run,” Lake continues, adding, “We don’t have time to pause on this battlefield.”
“That is incredible,” Glenn reacts, adding, “and incredibly slimy.”
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Arizona Republicans advance election bill to end mail-in voting — but it's likely dead on arrival
Republican lawmakers in Arizona are attempting to resurrect a controversial election bill that would eliminate nearly all forms of early voting and require ballots to be counted by hand.
State Rep. John Fillmore, who sponsored the legislation, has said he wants to "get back to 1958-style voting." His bill would end early or absentee voting except for voters who have a disability or expect to be out of state on Election Day. It would require voters to show up at a local precinct polling place to vote, and each location would be restricted to serve a maximum of 1,500 registered voters. The proposal requires votes to be counted by hand and the results reported within 24 hours.
This bill and others like it are supported by Republicans and activists who claim that 2020 presidential election was fraudulent. Democrats say the measure would suppress the minority vote and are accusing Republicans carrying that intention.
The state Senate Government Committee advanced the bill in a party-line vote of 4-3 Monday, but according to the Associated Press, the bill is expected to fail if brought before the full Senate or in the state House. An identical bill was defeated earlier this year when state House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) assigned it to every House committee, ensuring that it would never reach the floor for a vote.
Even supporters of the bill acknowledge there is an uphill battle to end mail-in voting in Arizona, a state where more than 80% of voters cast their ballots by mail.
State Sen. J.D. Mesnard (R), who supports returning to near-universal in-person voting, told the Associated Press that a bill passed by the Legislature can become a ballot referendum if supporters or critics collect enough signatures.
“If that were to happen here, it would go to the ballot and you have 85% of folks casting a mail in ballot on whether they get to continue casting mail-in ballot,” Mesnard said. “We have our work cut out for us.”
Still, Arizona Republican efforts to revisit the results of the 2020 election continue. State Sen. Kelly Townsend (R) said she intends to issue a new subpoena to Maricopa County for records related to the presidential election. She asserts the county has not sufficiently cooperated with requests for records from Attorney General Mark Brnovich.
Brnovich is a candidate for U.S. Senate running in the GOP primary to challenge Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.).
In the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election, Republicans subpoenaed Maricopa County for ballots, voting machines, and data. Those materials were cited in a "forensic audit" of the election conducted by supporters of former President Donald Trump on behalf of Senate GOP leaders that failed to show Trump's loss was illegitimate.
Government Committee Republicans also voted to advance a bill that would require drop boxes to be monitored by an election worker or a security camera, the Associated Press reports.
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