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Kari Lake Won’t Seek Office Again

Kari Lake, a GOP Senate candidate in Arizona who lost her campaign against Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) this past election cycle, said she will not seek political office again.

“We know the movement that we have in Arizona, and I will never take that for granted. But there is a corrupt machine here that is hellbent on making sure I never hold office. So, I won’t put my family (and myself) through the torture of running again,” Lake wrote Saturday in a post on the social platform X.

Gallego, who had served in the House for nearly a decade representing a Phoenix-based seat, secured his victory against Lake, garnering 50.1 percent of the vote compared to Lake’s 47.7 percent, according to a polling aggregate from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ.

Lake announced her Senate bid in October 2023 and entered the race for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (I-Ariz.) seat as the heavy favorite for the GOP nomination. The Republican is a sharp ally of President-elect Trump, who endorsed her in a video on social media. Lake had previously denied her loss in Arizona’s gubernatorial race in 2022.

“I’m really tired of watching our politicians retreat from every single important battle. They’re cowards,” Lake told supporters in October, vowing to be the most “pro-America senator in the entire country.”

“That’s how we got into the mess we’re in right now, because they have surrendered far too many hills. We are on — we’re on the final hill right now, and I’m not surrendering this hill,” she said.

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