Senate candidate and Trump ally Kari Lake had a cheeky response to Bill Clinton after he described her as “physically attractive” during a campaign event in Arizona: Am I not a little old for you?
She gave her four-point response before Donald Trump’s appearance at a rally in Tempe, Arizona.
“I woke up to this news this morning,” he said.
‘First of all, you know what? As a middle-aged woman, I am flattered. I feel flattered. I don’t get that kind of praise every day.
‘Secondly, I thought I was too old for him. Don’t you like interns?
Senate candidate and Trump ally Kari Lake had a cheeky response to Bill Clinton after he described her as “physically attractive” during a campaign event in Arizona.
Arizona is a critical swing state, and both Trump and Kamala Harris have made repeat visits.
On Wednesday night, Clinton was in Phoenix to support Harris and appeared alongside Lake’s opponent, Reuben Gallego.
“This is like a beautiful microcosm of the campaign that Kamala Harris is running for president,” he said.
“You have a person who grew up in sometimes challenging circumstances, who made something of his life competing against someone who is physically attractive but believes that politics is a performance art and where, like JD Vance, he has to prostrate before the master” . .’
The 78-year-old, who was president from 1993 to 2001, probably meant “prostrate.”
The comments from such a famous womanizer sparked a storm, and Lake, 55, was clearly delighted by the attention as she continued with her list of reasons.
“Three, I am happily married to my husband, Jeff, who is 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 his opponent on Thursday.
His team had some fun too.
“When we found out Bill was coming to town, we thought we would have to protect our interns from him, but we didn’t know it was our candidate we had to protect.” said Colton Duncan, senior advisor.
Lake, 55, rose to prominence in the Phoenix area as a television news anchor, which she parlayed into a headline-grabbing 2022 gubernatorial bid.
She narrowly lost, but her accusations of voter fraud coincided with former President Donald Trump’s own strategy and she has become a favorite of the MAGA faithful.
Since then, he has tried to navigate a path toward the center as he faces off against Gallego, a Navy veteran and 10-year member of Congress.
In recent weeks he has shortened distances with Gallego. But six different polls released last week suggest she is running with an average of 43 percent to his 50 percent.
Kari Lake is about seven points behind Gallego in the Arizona Senate race.
Former President Bill Clinton (right) speaks briefly with Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Ruben Gallego as Clinton takes the stage at a campaign event in support of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate.
Democrats have won three consecutive Senate elections since 2018, and this year’s race is for the seat vacated by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who won as a Democratic candidate before becoming an independent.
This is not the first time Clinton has been accused of making a mistake.
During a recent event in Georgia, he focused his attention on immigration and accused Republicans of sabotaging a bill that would have strengthened security along the border and better controlled entry into the country.
—You had a case in Georgia not long ago, right? They made an announcement about it. A young woman who had been murdered by an immigrant,” he said, referring to Laken Riley’s story.
“Yeah, well, if everyone had been properly tested, that probably wouldn’t have happened.”
But the Trump campaign quickly seized on his words as a criticism of the Biden-Harris administration’s border policy.