Republican nominee for governor of Arizona, Kari Lake, is under fire this week after falsely accusing her Democratic opponent Katie Hobbs of voting to remove the Pledge of Allegiance, the National Anthem, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution from schools in the state.
Lake teased the bombshell on Twitter on Monday, saying, “I just got some really painful, hurtful news about @Katie Hobbs. My team is triple-confirming its [sic] true. Tomorrow I will be releasing. Bad stuff!”
Local Arizona news station KTVK, among others, fact-checked Lake’s claims and noted that the Republican apparently doesn’t understand how a bill becomes a law.
“Now that bombshell is blowing up, sparking a whole new set of questions. Our political editor, Dennis Welch, is in the Newsroom to explain,” the local anchor began introducing the segment.
“And this is just one example of the hundreds of bills sent to the governor’s office every single year. And now there is a real big question in this year’s race. If one of the candidates doesn’t understand what to do with it,” said Welch.
“In Hobbs’s Arizona, your kindergartner wouldn’t learn the Pledge of Allegiance,” Lake can then be heard saying in the video she released to Twitter.
“As a legislator, Hobbs actually voted to block the Pledge of Allegiance, our national anthem, our Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and even the Mayflower Compact, from being taught to the next generation of Americans right here in Arizona,” Lake...
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