re: McCain donors are backing Kari Lake’s democrat opponent.

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Can’t somebody explain how Kari Lake is winning these primaries if she’s so unpopular with AZ Republicans?

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Kari Lake has won one primary. She won the Republican primary for governor in 2022 with just short of 400,000 votes, which was less than half of Republican primary voters and about 25% of registered Republicans.

That said, her problem is less with Republican voters than it is with Independents. The vast majority of Republicans held their nose and voted for her in '22 and will do so again this November but Independents, while more Right leaning than Left, are not ideologues and seem to be turned off by sophomoric theatrics. I was going to suggest they're also turned off by retardation but then as dim as KL is, Katie Hobbs makes her look like a genius.