Perhaps the first thing you notice about CNN’s interview of Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake on Sunday is that Lake, unlike most cable-news guests dialing in from home, is more appealingly lit and filmed than the host.
Dana Bash, hosting “State of the Union,” benefited from the network’s studio lighting and makeup team, but the familiar CNN aesthetic is a probably-intentionally-metaphorical harsh, bright light. Lake goes for gauzy and warm — because Lake, unlike many cable-news guests and most politicians, is experienced both with being on television and with understanding the limitations of television as a format.
All of which makes television a particularly useful format for her to make false claims about election security and her role in seeding doubt about the 2020 presidential contest.
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