{"id":1438559,"date":"2022-04-14T16:01:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T20:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438559"},"modified":"2022-04-14T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T20:01:08","slug":"trump-backed-kari-lake-knocked-doors-for-obama-former-colleague-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-backed-kari-lake-knocked-doors-for-obama-former-colleague-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Backed Kari Lake Knocked Doors for Obama, Former Colleague Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-backed-kari-lake-knocked-doors-for-obama-former-colleague-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438559&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Lake running for Arizona governor as self-proclaimed &#8216;only conservative&#8217; in the race<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tKari Lake \/ Rumble.com\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 April 14, 2022 3:53 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kari Lake\u2014the self-proclaimed &#8220;only conservative&#8221; in the race for Arizona governor\u2014volunteered to knock doors for the Obama campaign while she worked as a news anchor, according to a former colleague.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Lake&#8217;s longtime Fox 10 Phoenix colleague told former Pinal County sheriff Paul Babeu (R.) that Lake &#8220;went door to door canvassing for Barack Obama&#8221; during her time at the network, Babeu told the <i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i>. The former colleague, who requested anonymity to speak freely, confirmed that the conversation with Babeu took place and said the allegation about Lake&#8217;s work for Obama emerged in the Fox 10 newsroom after Lake announced her candidacy for governor. Her Republican campaign has shocked coworkers given her political activity while at the network.<\/p>\n<p><span>The allegation that Lake knocked on doors for a Democratic presidential candidate is at odds with her rhetoric on the campaign trail, where Lake has positioned herself as the &#8220;only conservative, America First Trump Republican in the race.&#8221; It is not, however, surprising given her past political activity\u2014the <\/span><i><span>Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span> reported last year that Lake in 2004 made her first ever <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/self-proclaimed-only-conservative-in-az-gov-race-under-fire-for-donations-to-dems\/\"><span>political contribution<\/span><\/a><span> to then-Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Four years later, in 2008, Lake registered as a Democrat and contributed to Obama&#8217;s first presidential campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to Lake&#8217;s former colleague<span>, Lake campaigned for Obama with Stephanie Angelo, who in 2008 was married to a different Fox 10 colleague, Troy Hayden. A veteran Arizona Democratic operative who was working in the state in 2008 identified Angelo as one of the party&#8217;s most committed volunteers at the time and said Angelo and Lake were &#8220;best friends.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Neither Lake&#8217;s campaign nor Angelo returned a request for comment. Hayden declined to comment, as Fox 10 employees are barred from discussing Lake&#8217;s candidacy with outside media outlets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lake left her job as a Fox 10 anchor in March 2021, citing her disapproval of the &#8220;obvious bias&#8221; and &#8220;liberal ideology&#8221; in mainstream media. <\/span>On the campaign trail,<span>\u00a0she regularly attacks the &#8220;biased media&#8221; for working to tip the scales in Democrats&#8217; favor. If the allegations are true, Lake appears to have embodied the media behavior she now says forced her to quit the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lake&#8217;s alleged behavior doesn&#8217;t just contradict her rhetoric\u2014network policy bars employees from campaigning for political candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lake worked to sidestep criticism of her past financial support for Democrats first by blaming the donations made in her name on her ex-husband, which would be <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/updates\/contributions-in-the-name-of-another-are-strictly-prohibited\/\"><span>illegal<\/span><\/a><span>. <\/span>She then said <span>she evolved politically. &#8220;Look at Ronald Reagan,&#8221; Lake <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/watch-gop-candidate-lashes-out-when-local-reporter-grills-her-about-donating-to-barack-obama-in-wild-interview\/\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> one interviewer who pressed her on her donations to Democrats. &#8220;He was a former Democrat. What&#8217;s the problem with it?&#8221; Lake also says the Democratic Party has grown more radical since she supported Kerry and Obama. (Lake&#8217;s 2008 donation to Obama came shortly after <\/span><i><span>National Journal<\/span><\/i><span> ranked the Illinois Democrat the most liberal senator.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition to her campaign donations to Democrats, Lake has pushed for liberal immigration policies such as amnesty and criticized former president Donald Trump. In a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=1071728349580482&#038;id=401757013244289\"><span>2016 Facebook post<\/span><\/a><span>, Lake said it was &#8220;impossible&#8221; to implement Trump&#8217;s &#8220;plan to deport 11 million immigrants&#8221; and argued that the United States should instead allow illegal immigrants to &#8220;legally&#8221; reside in the country as they await citizenship. One year later, Lake <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/trump-backs-one-time-critic-and-dem-donor-in-crowded-az-primary\/\"><span>blasted<\/span><\/a><span> Trump&#8217;s infamous Charlottesville press conference as &#8220;a real $hit$how&#8221; and said Trump showed &#8220;absolutely no self control.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lake landed Trump&#8217;s endorsement nonetheless. She now professes her &#8220;love&#8221; for the former president, says Trump should be put on Mount Rushmore, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KariLake\/status\/1509338510729576449?s=20&#038;t=wjnJqOWKP3YIjZeAOwhBpQ\"><span>promises<\/span><\/a><span> to &#8220;send National Guard Troops to the border&#8221; to deport &#8220;illegal aliens invading Arizona.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trump&#8217;s support has propelled Lake to the front of a crowded Republican primary field, which includes land developer Karrin Taylor Robson and former Republican congressman Matt Salmon. According to a Wednesday <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ohpredictive.com\/press-releases\/az-gop-gov-race-lake-leads-robson-climbing-salmon-stalls\"><span>OH Predictive Insights poll<\/span><\/a><span>, Lake leads the race with 29 percent support to Taylor Robson&#8217;s 22 percent and Salmon&#8217;s 11 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Lake running for Arizona governor as self-proclaimed &#8216;only conservative&#8217; in the race  Kari Lake \/ Rumble.com  Collin Anderson \u2022 April 14, 2022 3:53 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}