- A Trump-back candidate in Arizona continues to push debunked claims about the 2020 election.
- CNN host Dana Bash pushed back when Kari Lake claimed there was "evidence" of a rigged election.
Kari Lake, the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, was questioned about her debunked claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
On CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, host Dana Bash pushed back as Lake insisted that there is "plenty of evidence" that the election was stolen.
"You called the 2020 election corrupt, stolen, rotten and rigged. And there was no evidence of any of that presented in a court of law or anywhere else that any of those things are true. So, why do you keep saying that?" Bush asked.
"We had 740,000 ballots with no chain of custody. Those ballots shouldn't have been counted," Lake responded before Bash asked again for evidence. "Dana, there's plenty of evidence. You can find it. I'm happy to send it to your team. The problem is the media won't cover it."
"We covered this extensively, and what you just said has been debunked," Bush replied.
Lake, a former news anchor who clinched the Republican nomination for governor in August, has repeated Trump's false claims of voter fraud and aided efforts to stop the use of voting machines in Arizona, Insider previously reported.
On Sunday, Bash asked Lake: "Are you undermining faith in elections by saying that the 2020 election was stolen, when there's absolutely no evidence to support that?"
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