Kari Lake teams up with Marjorie Taylor Greene. Genius plan to court moderates

Kari Lake continues her outreach to moderate Republicans and independents, calling MAGA firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene “one of the greatest fighters in our country.”

Greene is one of the biggest conspiracy kooks in Congress.

On Tuesday, she demanded “proof of life … by 5 p.m. today” that Joe Biden was still alive, accepting hook, line and sinker the social media hysterics that Biden was dead and the deep state was covering it up.

Naturally, Greene has proclaimed the attempted assassination of Donald Trump was a conspiracy.

“Democrats don’t just want President Trump in jail, they want him dead,” she wrote.

Greene and Lake previously touted Project 2025

Greene is perhaps the most infamous far right firebrand at Capitol Hill — one who is too out there even for the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus — and like attracts like.

Meidas Touch reported Thursday that Greene and Lake both appeared in a video last year promoting Project 2025.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, that’s the Heritage Foundation’s extreme blueprint for Trump’s second term — the one fashioned by his former administration officials and allies and promoted by Trump loyalists like Greene and Lake. The one Trump says he knows nothing about and doesn’t support.

“They are extreme, seriously extreme,” Trump said in a July 20 rally. “I don’t know anything about it. I don’t want to know anything about it.”

The 922-page plan would expand the power of the presidency, lay waste to democratic institutions, individual rights and the separation of church and state.

Now, Greene is raising cash for Kari Lake

Now Lake and Greene are together again, this time teaming up in a fundraising appeal to boost Lake’s Senate prospects.

In their joint video, released on Thursday, Lake calls Greene “one of the greatest fighters in the country.”

Greene’s response: Backatya.

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“I need you to pitch in and help my dear friend Kari Lake,” Greene says in the pitch to her donor network. “I need her in Washington, D.C., fighting alongside me.”

This, then, is how Lake broadens her base, to reach those all-important McCain Republicans and independent voters who in 2022 made Democrat Katie Hobbs Arizona’s governor?

Genius plan.

This, as a donor says Lake 'cannot win'

The Greene-Lake appeal was released just as the Washington Post reports that one of Arizona’s powerhouse Republican donors, Randy Kendrick, wife of Arizona Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick, sent out an email to her Christmas card list saying Lake “cannot win the general election.”

“I have tried to help (Lake) and worked on this, and apparently cannot overcome it,” Kendrick wrote in the email obtained by the Post. “There is no time for blame or analysis. These are just the facts.”

Kendrick is supporting Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb in Tuesday’s Republican primary amid polls showing that moderate Republicans and independent don’t like Lake.

“I am trying to make more people aware of Lamb because, according to our polls, if people are made aware of him they prefer him over Lake and certainly over (Arizona Democratic Rep. Ruben) Gallego,” Kendrick wrote.

Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on X (formerly Twitter) at @LaurieRobertsaz.

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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Kari Lake repulses moderates by teaming with Marjorie Taylor Greene