Audio Recording Reveals the Moment that Az. GOP Chair Tried to Bribe Kari Lake Not to Run for Senate
EXCERPT:
DEWIT: “Is — just to say, is there a number at which —”
LAKE: “I can be bought?”
DEWIT: “Not be bought.”
LAKE: “That’s what it’s about.”
DEWIT: “You can take a pause for a couple of years now.”
LAKE: “No.”
DEWIT: “They go right back to it.”
LAKE: “No. 10 million, 20 million, 30? No, no, no. A billion? No. This is not about money, this is about our country. I think it’s disturbing that they would even — that anybody would think this is —”
DEWIT: “Now, to be fair, even me — even me, I’ll say this, I want a fresh face right now for the reason that I’ve never seen anyone, I can’t think of a single person in a federal race who’ve lost [indecipherable]. I can’t think of it. If you can think of it let me know.”
LAKE: “I’m not going to let these people who hate our [bleep] country tell me not to run. You should call them and tell them to get behind me.”
DEWIT: “I mean, I — I will happily say those words.”
LAKE: “I can win and they should get behind me.”