Monitoring Desk
WASHINGTON: Failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake insisted in an interview that if she is not made governor of Arizona, the United States (US) will turn into Venezuela.
The Donald Trump-backed Republican, Kari Lake, raised the spectre of a Venezuelan America during an interview with far-right student agitator Charlie Kirk.
Kari Lake lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs in November, the election has been certified, and Hobbs has taken office. Last month, Lake lost a court case challenging the election result and has since appealed in the court.
Lake compares US election system with Venezuela
“There is a boatload of evidence in our favor,” Lake baselessly claimed in the interview. “We need a judge to wake up and realize what is on the line here, and if we do not restore honest elections right now, our country will turn into a Venezuela. We have Venezuelan-style elections, which is how you destroy a country.”
Ironically, the ascension to power by someone not chosen in a free election is typical of authoritarian leadership in Venezuela, not in American democracy.
