Kari Lake has gone from fixture as an anchor on Fox 10 to a leading figure in Trump's Make America Great Again faction of the Republican Party.
Inside the cavernous sanctuary of a West Valley megachurch, one year to the day after the November 2020 election, Kari Lake preached to her congregation.
She's running an outsider's bid for the state's top office, asking voters to choose her over Democratic rival Katie Hobbs, Arizona's secretary of state, to replace Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, who has hit a term limit and cannot run again. Early voting begins Oct. 12, with the election set for Nov. 8.
In the late '90s, she left Phoenix for a stint working in upstate New York before returning for a job at Fox 10, where she stayed for more than two decades. "She's the type of person who when she sees a problem, she doesn't want to let it fester, she wants to go right after it," Stone said. Lake's problem-solving spirit and"go for it" attitude, over an incremental approach, convinced him to help her campaign, even as he's running his own for the Phoenix City Council, Stone said.
After taking leave in early 2021, Lake's next on-camera appearance was resigning her job, saying she didn't believe what she was reading on the teleprompter was the truth or told the full story. Diana Pike, the human resources director at Fox 10 for 20 years before she retired in 2019, said she never heard a single complaint, from Lake nor anyone else, that they were made to say things that weren't true. Pike said she believed Lake couldn't take criticism and never accepted responsibility for her gaffes, after which she would disappear from work for days or weeks and force others to fill in for her.
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