Posted on 10/01/2023 9:30:24 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Ron DeSantis booster Dave Rubin has denounced Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake as an “election denier” in the latest example of the Florida Governor’s camp weaponizing leftist smears against America First conservatives.
Lake, who shared Donald Trump’s concerns about the conduct of the 2020 election, became one of the election integrity movement’s leading lights after her own run for Governor of Arizona, successfully exposing major flaws in mail-in ballot signature verification in the Grand Canyon State.
By dismissing her as an “election denier” Rubin chose to play into the leftist narrative that conservatives with concerns about mail-in ballots, voting machines, and other questionable elements in the election processes are cranks.
Ouch, I’ve been unfollowed by election denier @KariLake for sharing her obvious lies about Florida and DeSantis.
Ironically she came up to me at the debate yesterday and said, “Don’t take it personally.”
Here’s a parting gift, Kari! pic.twitter.com/9G9QCIatcR
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) September 28, 2023
Rubin formerly identified with the “progressive left,” hosting the Hot Gay Comics podcast and working for the far-left Young Turks, but began courting a conservative audience after Donald Trump’s election in 2016, styling himself as a “classical liberal”.
He has proven a strange fit for Team DeSantis, with Jenna Ellis, one of the Florida Governor’s leading online surrogates, having previously criticized him for using a surrogate mother to procure children for himself and his gay “husband.”
Lake appears to be a particular target for DeSantis, with the candidate himself attacking her on the far left Bill Maher show on Friday, and another of his “influencers” chasing after while screaming outside the GOP debate this week.
This is what most of the conservative press and elected Republicans have thought of Republican voters for years. It was only after the 2020 steal (spreadsheets, anyone?) it became more out in the open, as was the difficulty for Republican voters to fully acknowledge it. As far as I'm concerned, any conservative journalist is a D working for a R paycheck unless proven otherwise.
“Election Denier” are the people that denial the election are rigged and crooked... the denial the evidence even when it put in front of them
Whadda tool he’s turned out to be.
He doesn’t like her because she’s got more guts than he does.
Thanks Dave now no one will forget Mister 12% calling President Trump the same. You two deserve each other.
I’ll accept the term “election denier” if trans activists accept the term “biology denier”.
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