ARIZONA -– In the lead up to the Arizona U.S. Senate debate next week, here are the facts about Kari Lake’s self-serving politics that includes a “preference for authoritarian-led countries over her own” and proposals to “gut […]veterans’ benefits.”

Lake has proposed massive 50-75% cuts to the federal budget that would gut […] veterans’ benefits” and jeopardize health care for nearly half a million veterans living in Arizona. 

Lake “didn’t dispute” Loomer’s claim that Lake’s marine veteran opponent “supports veteran suicides.”

Lake has “consistently gone to bat for authoritarian leaders across the globe” and sides with those interested in “ending the United States’ role as a global power,” in direct opposition to the American values veterans have fought to protect. 

Here’s what Arizonan veterans have been saying about Kari Lake’s self-serving and power hungry politics:

• Copper Courier Opinion: I fought dictators abroad. Kari Lake praises them. “Unfortunately, Kari Lake does not share these values. Kari Lake’s actions and words reveal a dangerous willingness to align with authoritarian figures and promote conspiracy theories that threaten the foundations of our democracy.” 

• Litchfield Park Independent: Peterson: Kari Lake can’t be trusted to defend our democracy. “Arizonans can’t trust Lake to protect American values like defending democracy, respecting elections and fighting for our freedoms when she openly supports America’s adversaries and authoritarians like Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán, questions the results of elections and defends Jan. 6 insurrectionists.”

• In Phoenix, veterans Aaron Marquez and Gladys Vargas, and military spouse and mother Paloma Greenwald, denounced Kari Lake’s “disregard for the sacrifice we as veterans have made to protect the country and ideals we love and hold in such high esteem.”

• In Tucson, United States Marine Corps Afghanistan Veteran Caleb Hayter, United States Air Force Veteran Melissa Cordero, and Former Arabic Linguist, Military Intelligence Sergeant and United States Army Veteran Derek Duba, said “This November, veterans like me will stand against Kari Lake’s self-serving and dangerous quest for power. Our oaths to the U.S. Constitution and our democratic Republic have no expiration date.”