{"id":1988287,"date":"2023-08-01T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-kari-lake-calls-for-2024-rivals-to-drop-out-and-endorse-trump\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T21:01:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T01:01:52","slug":"donald-trump-indictment-kari-lake-calls-for-2024-rivals-to-drop-out-and-endorse-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-kari-lake-calls-for-2024-rivals-to-drop-out-and-endorse-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Kari Lake urges 2024 contenders to withdraw and support Trump amid his indictment."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fdonald-trump-indictment-kari-lake-calls-for-2024-rivals-to-drop-out-and-endorse-trump%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=1988287&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--><h2>Former Arizona Republican\u200d gubernatorial candidate\u200d calls on 2024\u2064 Republican presidential candidates \u2063to endorse Trump<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This is the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-break-the-cycle-of-abuse\/\" title=\"How To Break the Cycle of Abuse\">egregious case<\/a> of election interference in the history\u2062 of our\u200c country,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Kari Lake<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former Arizona \u2064Republican gubernatorial candidate, Kari \u2063Lake, has made a bold statement, urging all 2024 Republican presidential candidates to drop out of the race and \u2062endorse former President Donald \u200bTrump. Lake believes \u200cthat \u200cTrump&#8217;s recent indictment is a clear example \u2064of election interference and\u200d calls\u2063 for\u2064 a unified Republican party to fight against it.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s indictment\u200d and campaign response<\/h3>\n<p>Trump\u2064 has \u200bbeen \u200bindicted on four charges related to his efforts to overturn the \u2064results of the\u2063 2020 election. \u2062These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-attorney-general-wants-opponent-investigated-over-2020-election-claims\/\" title=\"Michigan Attorney General Wants Opponent Investigated Over 2020 Election Claims\">charges include conspiracy<\/a> to \u2063defraud the United States, conspiracy to \u2062obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt\u200d to obstruct an official proceeding, and \u2062conspiracy against\u200c rights. In response, Trump&#8217;s campaign has condemned \u200bthe charges as &#8220;election interference,&#8221; drawing comparisons to authoritarian regimes\u200c like Nazi Germany \u200cand the former \u200bSoviet Union.<\/p>\n<h3>Lake&#8217;s plea to \u200bRepublican candidates<\/h3>\n<p>Kari Lake, a prominent Trump supporter, stands firmly by\u200d the former president&#8217;s side and implores his\u2062 rivals to suspend\u2064 their campaigns and rally around Trump. She believes that this battle is\u200b crucial for the future \u200cof the \u2064country and calls on all Republican candidates for President to unite\u200b behind Trump, emphasizing the need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-kari-lake-calls-for-2024-rivals-to-drop-out-and-endorse-trump\/\" title=\"Kari Lake urges 2024 contenders to withdraw and support Trump amid his indictment.\">stop wasting donor money<\/a> and support the nominee.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u200d it seems \u200cunlikely that any of \u200cTrump&#8217;s rivals will heed Lake&#8217;s call. Former Vice President Mike Pence \u2062and former\u2063 Texas Republican Rep. Will Hurd have criticized \u2064Trump, stating that he is unfit for office and \u200dnot above the law. Meanwhile,\u2063 former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has \u200cused\u200d the indictment as \u2064an opportunity to fundraise for the upcoming GOP primary debate, \u2064and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Trump&#8217;s\u200c closest competitor,\u2064 promises to end \u2064the weaponization of \u2064government and ensure \u2064equal \u200djustice for all Americans.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s \u200cdominance in the GOP primary race<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the indictment and the\u200c differing opinions within the Republican party, Trump\u200b remains the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-blasts-trump-says-he-lacks-discipline-to-be-president\/\" title=\"Barr criticizes Trump, cites lack of presidential discipline.\">undisputed front-runner<\/a> in the GOP\u2062 primary \u200crace. He\u200b continues to dominate national polls, receiving \u206259%\u200c of Republican primary \u2063voter support, according to\u200b the RealClearPolitics polling average. DeSantis \u2064follows\u2063 behind\u200d at 18.1%, \u200bwith no\u200b other candidate \u2062polling in the double digits.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about this story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake urged all 2024 Republican presidential contenders to withdraw from the race and back former President Donald Trump following his recent indictment. Lake labeled it as the nation&#8217;s most severe instance of election meddling. Trump&#8217;s indictment has stirred significant attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1988288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988287","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}