IMO Kari scares the Left more than Trump does because she is very articulate and knows how to beat the media at their own game. Which she did with great ease.
So she neutralizes their massive advantage there.
They HAVE to destroy her.
I think there is more to it in AZ. The way the media treated Kari like a pariah has more to do with 2020 than her own election. They have turned the words ‘election denier’ into the equivalent of the tried and true ‘birther...’in the sense of it being a term of extreme derision. She promised to get to the bottom of what happened there in 2020 and that can’t be allowed. They pulled out all the stops and it appears they have won again.
You nailed it.
Our own Mohave County Republicans pay lip service to supporting Kari Lake, but then undermine her by working with RINOs like Matt Salmon and Karrin Robson.