'I'm not perfect': Kari Lake admits 'mistakes' as she's grilled about bashing voters
Failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake confessed to "mistakes" when a reporter asked if she should have attacked so many Arizona conservatives after her loss.
But she tried to pass her fights off as being part of the "rough and tumble game" of politics — and added she hadn't intended to cause harm.
MSNBC reporter Vaughn Hill asked if it was a mistake to bash voters whose support she now needs as she battles to win a Senate seat in 2024.
"There has been a lot of talk about you extending olive branches to some conservatives in the state [whom] you had previously spurned," he prefaced. "Do you regret any of your past statements about Republicans in this state?"
Lake wouldn't quite admit she regretted it. Instead, she provided an excuse.
"You know what, we're all human. We make mistakes occasionally," said Lake. "I do as well. I'm not perfect. I never want to hurt anyone's feelings. But, you know, politics is a rough and tumble game and sometimes things are said. But right now, we have a lot of issues facing our country, and we need to come together as Americans to solve these problems. And I think we will."
Among her battles with state Republicans is her release of a recording of Arizona's GOP chairman who she said was trying to bribe her into getting out of the race so the party wouldn't lose the seat. She threatened him with releasing other tapes and he ultimately resigned.
Lake has also attacked former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on social media: "Nimrata Haley will suspend her campaign today after more humiliating, landslide (losses) on Super Tuesday."
Haley's official first name is actually spelled "Nimarata," though she goes by her middle name. Critics accused Lake of racism for the remark. It's a similar remark to Trump, who once implied his competitor wasn't from the United States.
Then there's the feud Lake has with Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain.
When Lake won the GOP primary for governor, she told her supporters: “We drove a stake through the heart of the McCain machine!"
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She also called the former prisoner of war a "loser" and said his supporters should “get the hell out” of her campaign event.
Lake now says it was really all in "jest."
The younger McCain was unwilling to make nice.
"No peace, b----," she said on the social media platform X.
McCain later wrote, “Kari Lake is trying to walk back her continued attacks on my Dad (& family) and all of his loyal supporters. Guess she realized she can’t become a Senator without us. We see you for who you are and are repulsed by it.”
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