U.S. Senate Race: Gallego Surging, Lake Digging a Hole with Her Mouth, Sinema Irrelevant

Here’s some of the latest from the 2024 US Senate race for the seat currently squatted upon by Independent (Wall Street) #SingleTermSinema.

Ruben Gallego Continues to Climb

The polling is looking very good for Ruben Gallego with him generally leading a potential three way race outside the margin of error in poll after poll, but I tend to believe that the best prognostication occurs when there is money on the table: I therefore follow the betting markets on political contests pretty closely, and here is what the money markets are saying:

I think this is a truer picture of the odds, and they are running two to one for Ruben and against likely Republican nominee Lake, with Sinema as basically an afterthought.

Lake Continues to Slander

Lake popped up to make trouble for herself on Steve Bannon’s War Room a few days ago (sorry in advance for subjecting your this, but you really need to see her continue to defame Richer in real time):

Mother Mags at Daily Kos posted a very amusing diary regarding this deep hole in her future finances that Lake just refuses to stop digging with her mouth by continuing to defame Maricopa Recorder Steven Richer:

…they don’t learn, do they? Remember that Giuliani’s culpability had already been decided when his trial started; he was liable for ruining the two election workers’ lives, and the jury trial would determine the amount he owed them. At first, lawyers for Moss and Freeman outlined a settlement of about $24 million per plaintiff, but Giuliani’s sidewalk interviews, where he doubled down on his allegations and said he’d prove everything when he took the stand, only to not testify, probably did not sit well with the jury, which later awarded Moss and Freeman about three times the original amount.

You’d think Kari Lake might learn something from that—like keep your friggin’ trap shut about the person who’s filed a defamation lawsuit against you! You’d think she’d get that it doesn’t help her defense to do more of the thing she’s accused of doing. If you thought that, you thought wrong.

“The person behind it is Stephen Richer, he is a guy who runs our elections, and obviously we had rigged elections here in Arizona,” she opined, “and I pointed out everything he did wrong, and I stand by every word I said about Stephen Richer, and if they think I’m going to stop using my First Amendment rights, they’re crazy.”

-Kari Lake

That’s right, Kari Lake said that this week in Steve Bannon’s cesspool when he asked about Richer’s lawsuit. Rather than mumble something benign like, “I’m innocent and this case should be dismissed,” Lake says Arizona “obviously” had a “rigged” election (no, it didn’t), and she “stand[s] by” her previous accusation that Richer is responsible, which is far from rhetorical hyperbole. It’s a lie and a dangerous one, says Richer, who also says Kari Lake knows it’s a lie.

Mother Mags, DailyKos.com

Meanwhile, #LyingLoserLake has also launched her own show on America First News in order to ensure that Richer has all the evidence he needs to take every penny she’s ever made. Mother Mags takes aim at that, too:

Surprise! Surprise! Election denialism is the main theme, mentioned 27 times in the first four episodes. Lake continues to sing this screechy tune even as the Arizona Republican Party advises her to STFU about stolen elections because voters are tired of her lame-ass whining and losing lawsuits. Lake’s lawyers have already been sanctioned, and this week news broke that they are facing possible disbarment and additional fines for filing a mountain of frivolous BS.

“A committee that regulates attorneys in Arizona has found probable cause that three lawyers who represented former gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in election-related cases should face discipline.”

Lake’s guest Roseanne Barr, once a popular comedian who evidently read “Victoria Jackson for Dummies,” said a multi-racial official in President Obama’s administration was the child of terrorists and the primates in Planet of the Apes. Not subtle. Lake told Barr it’s the media that paints her as an extremist, when her policies are really “common sense.”

Yes, the media forced Lake to heap praise on dictators like Viktor Orbán, then speak at his CPAC conference in Hungary with the Arizona congressmen Lake calls the GOAT: white supremacist and Nick Fuentes fanboy Paul Gosar. It’s the media that made her cheer Texas’s abortion law that could’ve killed Kate Cox (and probably will kill others). The media is to blame for Lake saying MAGA gun-huggers will reinstall Trump, using their penis proxies if necessary. And those nasty journalists and reporters twisted her arm so she’d tell moderate McCain Republicans to “get the hell out” of the party. Boy, our media is powerful!

During his interview on Lake’s show the Nixon-tattooed treasonous shithead Roger Stone told her that JFK Jr’s fatal plane crash was part of a plot orchestrated by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Lake responded that Junior’s father, President Kennedy, would be MAGA if he were alive. Yeah, sure, go camp out with the Q boobs in Dealey Plaza—otherwise known as your base.

Mother Mags, DailyKos.com

#SingleTermSinema Continues to Slime

In agonistes Kyrsten Sinema’s ongoing struggle with her own ethics and relevance, her fundraising and reporting practices are once again under scrutiny:

Here are some donations [Sinema] received after voting against the debt relief plan, according to Federal Election Commission filings:

• $5,000 from NelNet Inc PAC on Sept. 1. NelNet holds the second-highest amount of Federal Family Education Loan Program money, according to the U.S. Department of Education. FFELP loans are federally backed loans given by private lenders. The program ended in 2010 when the federal government started lending directly to students.
• $5,000 from Sallie Mae’s PAC on June 30. Sallie Mae is a private lender offering student loans. It is in the top 20 largest FFELP loan holders, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
• $5,000 from Nursing Education Equity and Diversity on Sept. 30. There is little information on this organization online, but it is based in Phoenix and run by Matthew Calhoun, the board chair of the for-profit Arizona College of Nursing. The PAC did not respond to questions about its connection to the college or its mission.
• $2,500 from PRA Group PAC on Sept. 26. Portfolio Recovery Associates is a debt collector. It buys debt that banks and other financial institutions have given up on collecting.
• $2,500 from Career Education PAC on Sept. 26. Career Education Colleges and Universities is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association that represents for-profit colleges.
• $2,000 from State Street Bank and Trust Co. PAC on June 30. Forbes listed the company as a top bank stock to buy with student loan payments resuming.
• $2,500 from Independent Community Bankers of America PAC on June 30.
• $2,500 from Security Finance Corp. of Spartanburg’s PAC on Sept. 21.

Phoenix New Times

Sinema thereby continues her rich tradition of serving herself rather than serving the people who put in the Senate. No wonder she’s barely a factor in the 2024 race: I doubt she will actually run, unless it is merely to see what she can get for dropping out from the Republicans, since most of her support at this point would roll to the Republican candidate.

Trump Continues to do the AZGOP No Favors

Meanwhile the bloated, ancient, pumpkin-flavored terrorist who seems certain to be the GOP’s Presidential nominee continues to say things deeply offensive to many Arizona Republicans, giving no help to whomever (probably Lake) is the Republican nominee for Senate in Arizona.

This time Trump mocked the valorous injuries of the late Arizona Senator John McCain while decrying ObamaCare (which has helped about 200,000 Arizonans get healthcare coverage) which prompted a pert response from Senator McCain’s daughter Meghan:

“My dad was an American hero. An icon. A patriot that will be remembered throughout history,” McCain posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “I cannot buy a bagel without someone approaching me about how much they loved and miss him.”

McCain’s comments came in response to a clip of Trump mocking John McCain’s injury that he sustained while being a prisoner of war in North Vietnam until 1973. He sustained injuries in an aircraft crash and at the hands of his captors that left him with lifelong ailments, including the inability to raise his arms above his head.

In the clip, Trump blamed John McCain for Obama care and mocked his disability.

“Obamacare is a catastrophe, nobody talks about it. You know, without John McCain, we would have had it done, but John McCain for some reason couldn’t get his arm up that day, remember?” Trump said, with a hand gesture, at a campaign event in Iowa. “He goes … like … that was the end of that.”

Meghan McCain called Trump out for his mockery and said “Trump is a piece of shit, election denying, huckster whose own wife won’t campaign with him.”

The Hill

Damn, mean girl! Say what you mean!