Fact-checking Kari Lake, serial promoter of election lies and early frontrunner in GOP primary for Arizona governor

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Washington (CNN)In September, Mike Lindell, the pillow businessman and promoter of wildly inaccurate conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, said Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was the first and only candidate he had endorsed.
In addition to her high profile and her polished public speaking, Lake has jumped ahead of the field by joining Lindell in pushing lies about what happened in the free and fair 2020 election she falsely describes as "stolen."
Kim Fridkin, an Arizona State University professor of political science, said that Lake "pushing lies about the outcome of the election and advocating imprisonment for her likely opponent is dangerous."
In a tweet this month, Lake suggested something was amiss about the fact that Maricopa County informed her she was being sent a mail-in ballot for a local 2021 election even though she had requested prior to the 2020 election to be taken off the list of mail voters.