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In response to Donald Trump\u2019s MAGA ally Kari Lake <\/em>telling supporters<\/em><\/a> to \u201cstrap on a Glock\u201d ahead of this November\u2019s election, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKari Lake followed Donald Trump\u2019s losing MAGA playbook in 2022 and is doing the same thing in 2024 \u2013 including by echoing his dangerous and extreme threats of political violence on the campaign trail. Lake\u2019s shameful comments have no place in our political discourse, but they sadly come as no surprise as Trump promises a \u2018bloodbath\u2019 if he loses in November, vows to be a \u2018dictator on day one,\u2019 and pledges to lock up his political opponents. This kind of horrifying and violent rhetoric makes the stakes of this November\u2019s election crystal clear, and the American people will not allow MAGA extremists like Trump and Lake to threaten our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW: Kari Lake told supporters to \u201cstrap on a Glock\u201d ahead of this November\u2019s election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cKari Lake suggests supporters ‘strap on a Glock’ to be ready for 2024\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cArizona GOP Senate hopeful Kari Lake told supporters they can \u2018strap on a Glock\u2019 to be prepared for the intensity of the 2024 campaign and urged military and law enforcement veterans to be \u2018ready,\u2019<\/strong> as her race heats up in a key battleground state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake has repeatedly embraced dictators and far-right extremists, spouted white nationalist talking points, and seemingly encouraged political violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business Insider<\/a>: \u201cSpeaking at a convention of Georgia Republicans, Lake told hundreds of delegates that the \u201875 million Americans\u2019 who voted for Trump are armed and ready to defend him.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeremy Duda, Axios<\/a>: \u201c.@KariLake called for @SecretaryHobbs to be imprisoned over fictional election rigging claims.<\/strong> \u2018Frankly, I think she should be locked up.\u2019 Crowd starts \u2018lock her up\u2019 chant. Lake says, \u2018I agree.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Matters<\/a>: \u201cLake\u2019s connections to political extremists in the media are not new.<\/strong> A longtime local TV newscaster who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, she has appeared with a Nazi-sympathizing YouTuber, QAnon activists, and once endorsed a far-right, antisemitic streamer running for Oklahoma state Senate.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cLake added that U.S. media is going after what she called \u2018the truth tellers and the peacemakers,\u2019 which she said included Trump and Hungary\u2019s populist prime minister, Viktor Orb\u00e1n.<\/strong> \u2018I hear those two men talking about peace, but I hear the saber-rattling and the drum beat of \u201clet\u2019s start a war\u201d from a lot of these countries with globalist-type political leaders,\u2019 Lake said.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arizona Republic<\/a>: \u201cKari Lake\u2019s immigration remark plays into racist ‘Great Replacement Theory<\/strong>,’ scholar says\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump is only ramping up his extreme and dangerous rhetoric, including promising a \u201cbloodbath\u201d if he loses in November and vowing to be a \u201cdictator on day one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cTrump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses the election\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cTrump Says There Will Be a \u2018Bloodbath\u2019 and Elections Will End if He Isn\u2019t Reelected\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cTrump Defends His Warning of a \u2018Blood Bath for the Country\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cTrump Says He\u2019ll Be a Dictator on \u2018Day One\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cTrump declines to rule out abusing power to seek retribution if he returns to the White House\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump calls political enemies \u2018vermin,\u2019 echoing dictators Hitler, Mussolini\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump says he will lock up his political enemies if he is president again.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forbes<\/a>: \u201cTrump said of his relationships with dictators, \u2018the tougher and meaner they are, the better I get along with them,\u2019 which he insisted is \u2018not a bad thing.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018The easy ones,\u2019 Trump said, referring to America\u2019s allies, \u2018I maybe don’t like as much or don’t get along with as much.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cLate Friday night, the former president of the United States\u2014and a leading candidate to be the next president\u2014insinuated that America\u2019s top general deserves to be put to death. That extraordinary sentence would be unthinkable in any other rich democracy. But Donald Trump, on his social-media network, Truth Social, wrote that Mark Milley\u2019s phone call to reassure China in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was \u2018an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump continues to praise and embrace violent January 6 rioters \u2013 from calling them \u201chostages\u201d and \u201cpatriots\u201d to vowing to pardon \u201ca large portion\u201d of those who attacked our Capitol. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump Salutes Jan. 6 ‘Hostages’ at Ohio Rally\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business Insider<\/a>: \u201cThen-President Donald Trump didn\u2019t want to specifically call for the Justice Department to prosecute January 6 rioters<\/strong> or forcefully condemn those who stormed the Capitol as unrepresentative of the MAGA movement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cNo, Trump did not order 10,000 troops to secure the Capitol on Jan. 6\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cTrump describes imprisoned Jan. 6 rioters as \u2018hostages\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump vows pardons, government apology to Capitol rioters if elected\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cFormer President Donald Trump promised Wednesday night that if he is elected he will pardon a \u2018large portion\u2019 of the people convicted of federal offenses for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200b\u200bWashington Post<\/a>: \u200b\u200b\u201cFormer president Donald Trump on Thursday praised and embraced a woman convicted of defying police orders on the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021. \u2026 Trump has steadily escalated his advocacy for people charged in the Capitol riot, including by pledging to pardon them if he returns to the White House, praising them as patriots, participating in a recording with Jan. 6 prisoners singing the national anthem,<\/strong> and playing it at his first rally of the 2024 campaign last month.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cJanuary 6, it was the largest crowd I\u2019ve ever spoken to. And they were there proud, they were there with love in their heart. That was an unbelievable \u2014 and it was a beautiful day.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cTrump spoke at a fundraiser for Jan. 6 defendants\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to Donald Trump\u2019s MAGA ally Kari Lake telling supporters to \u201cstrap on a Glock\u201d ahead of this November\u2019s election, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: \u201cKari Lake followed Donald Trump\u2019s losing MAGA playbook in 2022 and is doing the same thing in 2024 \u2013 including by echoing his dangerous and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNEW: Kari Lake Doubles Down on Trump\u2019s Dangerous and Violent Rhetoric - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/new-kari-lake-doubles-down-on-trumps-dangerous-and-violent-rhetoric\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-16T21:16:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-10T15:59:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/new-kari-lake-doubles-down-on-trumps-dangerous-and-violent-rhetoric\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/new-kari-lake-doubles-down-on-trumps-dangerous-and-violent-rhetoric\/\",\"name\":\"NEW: Kari Lake Doubles Down on Trump\u2019s Dangerous and Violent Rhetoric - 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