Senate candidate and Trump ally Kari Lake responded boldly to Bill Clinton after he described her as “physically attractive” at a campaign event in Arizona: Aren’t I a little old for you?
She delivered her four-point response ahead of Donald Trump’s appearance at a rally in Tempe, Arizona.
“I woke up this morning to this news,” she said.
“First of all, you know what? As a middle-aged woman, I’m flattered. I’m flattered. I don’t get those kinds of compliments every day.
“Second, I thought I was a little too old for him. Doesn’t he like interns?’
Senate candidate and Trump ally Kari Lake responded brutally to Bill Clinton after he described her as ‘physically attractive’ during a campaign event in Arizona
Arizona is a crucial swing state, and both Trump and Kamala Harris have made repeated visits.
On Wednesday night, Clinton was in Phoenix to support Harris, appearing alongside Lake’s opponent Reuben Gallego.
“This is a beautiful microcosm of Kamala Harris’ campaign for president,” he said.
‘You have a person who grew up under sometimes challenging circumstances, who has made something of his life by running into someone who is physically attractive, but believes that politics is a performance art, and where, like JD Vance, she prostate should be for the master.’
The 78-year-old, who was president from 1993 to 2001, probably meant “prostration.”
The comments from such a famous womanizer set off a firestorm, and Lake, 55, was clearly tickled by the attention as she continued her checklist of reasons.
“Third, I am happily married to my husband, Jeff, who lives down here, beloved,” she said.
“And fourth, no one in their right mind wants to cross, Hillary Clinton. It’s just dangerous.’
Former President Bill Clinton described Arizona Senate candidate and close Trump ally Kari Lake as “physically attractive” during a campaign event with her opponent on Thursday
Her team had some fun too,
“When we heard Bill was coming to town, we thought we had to protect our interns from him. We didn’t know it was our candidate we had to protect!’ said Colton Duncan, senior advisor.
Lake, 55, rose to fame in the Phoenix area as a television news anchor and used that to make headlines for governor in 2022.
She narrowly lost, but her accusations of election fraud aligned with former President Donald Trump’s own strategy and she has become a darling of the MAGA faithful.
Since then, she has been trying to find a path to the center as she takes on Gallego, a Navy veteran and 10-year member of Congress.
In recent weeks she has closed the gap on Gallego. But six different polls released in the past week show her average between 43 percent and his 50 percent.
Kari Lake trails Gallego by about seven points in the Arizona Senate race
Former President Bill Clinton, right, speaks briefly with Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Ruben Gallego as Clinton takes the stage during a campaign event in support of Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris
Democrats have won three straight Senate races since 2018, and the battle this year is for the seat vacated by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who won as a Democratic candidate before becoming an independent.
It is not the first time that Clinton has been accused of making a blunder.
At a recent event in Georgia, he turned his attention to immigration, accusing Republicans of sabotaging a bill that would have tightened security along the border and better controlled entry into the country.
“You had a case in Georgia not too long ago, didn’t you? They made an ad about it. A young woman murdered by an immigrant,” he said, referring to Laken Riley’s story.
“Yes, if they had all been properly vetted, that probably wouldn’t have happened.”
But Trump’s campaign quickly interpreted his words as criticism of the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies.