Kari Lake keeps making money off of her MAGA celebrity brand

Tue, 07/02/2024 - 12:55

Arizona GOP Senate Candidate Kari Lake at an event in Washington, DC last month. — Kari Lake, the GOP's likely Senate nominee in Arizona, was paid $20,000 to speak at an Indiana GOP event in April.
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Kari Lake has never won an election — but she's quickly become one of MAGA's biggest stars.
In just the last five months, she made $20,000 from one paid speech and $27,000 from book sales.
She's also invested between $1,000 and $15,000 in Trump's "Truth Social."

The GOP's hopes of retaking the Senate rest in part on Kari Lake, the former TV broadcaster and 2022 gubernatorial candidate who's poised to become the party's Senate nominee in Arizona.