I could see some wusses, simps, soy boys, wokesters, SJWs, etc. voting for Katie just because they viewed Kari as being too mean. That might be what also happened, in part, with Oz in Pennsylvania. Anything negative Oz said about Fetterman could have been viewed as poking fun at the disabled.
I know it's a stretch, but American society has declined rather quickly over the past few years. I still see grown men wearing masks. There's probably something to this theory about ingesting plastics having similar effects to taking estrogen.
Kari Lake lost because 2 days before an election in Arizona, she told all the McCain GOP voters to go away. You may well hate John McCain, but if he was on the ballot, he’d probably win election in AZ even though he is dead.
For a really smart savvy person, it was a critical and probably fatal error.
Because it did not gain here a SINGLE vote. Nobody here supporting Kari Lake was going to decide not to because they suddenly thought she was too much of a McCain supporter. She did NOT have to distance herself from McCain. It did not fire up her base any more than they were.
But it became a highly public comment that was seen as an attack on a good percentage of the republican electorate. And when you are trying to squeak by with 1%, you can’t afford to tell 1% of the voters to stay home or vote for your opponent.