“Especially when you told the McCain voters to “Get the hell out” of your rallies,“
Lake may have said something like that in one of the rallies. My guess is it has been exaggerated quite a bit. I share her contempt for the McTraitor people but she should not have said it. They were never going to support her but antagonizing them was not wise.
Google what she said, there’s a bunch of articles out there about this incident.
My point is this, Lake lost by about 17,000 votes out of 2.5 million votes cast. If only a very small percentage of voters took offense to her comments and either voted for Hobbs or someone else, it probably cost her the election.
It was an unforced error combined with her and other Republicans telling voters to wait until election day to vote, where strangely voting machines malfunctioned in Republican precincts and you created a losing formula in an election that should have been won.
IMO, a candidate should never tell potential voters to get out, they should always be trying to attract voters. I bet a significant percentage of McCain voters are naturally going to vote Republican, it makes no sense to lump them all together in their views.
You can hate McCain, that is fine, but don’t trash him or his voters, it can’t help you.