Kari Lake Pledges Not to Back Down to NFL: ‘I Answer to the People of Arizona’

“Let’s jump then to the fallout. We know that there’s been a history in Arizona with SB 1070 with boycotts in Arizona,” Broomhead said about its immigrant enforcement bill. “We know the Super Bowl at one time was pulled over the Martin Luther King law… you would be sworn in a month from the Super Bowl being here. If the NFL were to threaten, they’re going to pull the Super Bowl If you do that, would it make you waver in your decision?”

“You want to tell me that a bunch of football teams owned by billionaires are okay with fentanyl pouring across our border at a record level, killing our young people?” Lake asked rhetorically. “Number one killer right now is Fentanyl, 18 to 45. It’s killing a generation of people. If the NFL is okay with that, then they’ve got to do some soul-searching. I don’t think the NFL’s that stupid. I really don’t.”

“So you wouldn’t be concerned about it?” Broomhead asked.

“We’re sure that we’re stopping the cartels,” she responded. “No, I’m not concerned. The people of Arizona is who I work for, and that’s why I’m here with you today, Mike. This is a job interview. This should have been a debate. And we are doing a job interview. And you, the people of Arizona, are the hiring agent.”

“I will be working for you,” she continued. “And unfortunately, my opponent doesn’t have the courage and doesn’t have the respect for the people of Arizona to show up here, sit on this stage and take these same questions.”

“But I’m not gonna be taking marching orders from the NFL,” she added. “I’m taking marching orders from the people of Arizona who are tired of their children getting their hands on the most deadly drug this country’s ever seen. Mike, I talk to parents all the time. The hardest thing in the world is having a mother come up to you and tell you that she lost her 19-year-old because he took a pill.”

“He took one pill,” she said. “He didn’t know it was a fentanyl pill. He didn’t know it came from Mexico from the cartels.”

“There’s no amount of money that can ever bring a child back who’s lost his life to fentanyl,” she continued. “And the thing is, we don’t have to have these senseless deaths. We’re being poisoned by the cartels and the CCP. The communist regime out of China is behind this.”

“And if you don’t think that they can take down a civilization in a country over drugs, with drugs, then you need to do a history lesson,” she added. “And you’ve got to look at the opium wars. They brought down dynasties with drugs, and they’re trying to bring this country down.”

“I am a mama bear at heart, and I will fight two and nail to protect our children,” she said. “I don’t want to have to face another parent who’s lost a 17-year-old son, a 19-year-old daughter, a 20-year-old daughter. We’re losing our future, Mike. And so if the NFL has a problem with that, they’re gonna have to lick their wounds because we are going to secure our border in Arizona.”

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Katie Hobbs, who is Arizona’s Secretary of State, has refused to debate Kari Lake citing their disagreement on the 2020 election. Hobbs earlier did a one-on-one interview with “Arizona Horizon” host Ted Simons that was broadcast on Oct. 18.