Senate candidate and Trump ally Kari Lake had a cheeky response for Bill Clinton after he described her as ‘physically attractive’ during a campaign event in Arizona: Aren’t I a bit old for you?
She delivered her four-point riposte ahead of Donald Trump’s appearance at a rally in Tempe, Arizona.
‘I woke up to this news this morning,’ she said.
‘First of all, you know what? As a middle aged woman, I’m flattered. I’m flattered. I don’t get those kind of compliments every day.
‘Two, I thought I was a little too old for him. Doesn’t he like interns?’
Arizona is a critical swing state, and both Trump and Kamala Harris have made repeat visits.
On Wednesday evening, Clinton was in Phoenix to support Harris and appeared alongside Lake’s opponent Reuben Gallego.
‘This is like a beautiful microcosm of the campaign that Kamala Harris is running for president,’ he said.
‘You got a person that grew up under sometimes challenging circumstances, who made something of his life running against someone who is physically attractive but believes that politics is a performance Art, and where, like J.D. Vance, she has to be prostate before the master.’
The 78-year-old, who was president from 1993 to 2001, likely meant ‘prostrate.’
The remarks of such a famous womaniser set off a firestorm, and Lake, 55, was clearly tickled by the attention as she continued her checklist of reasons.
‘Three, I’m happily married to my husband, Jeff, who’s right down here, beloved,’ she said.
‘And four, nobody in the right mind wants to cross, Hillary Clinton. It’s just dangerous.’
Her team had some fun too,
‘When we heard Bill was coming to town, we thought we’d have to protect our interns from him, little did we know, it was our candidate we needed to shield!’ said Colton Duncan, senior adviser.
Lake, 55, rose to fame in the Phoenix area as a television news anchor, leveraging that into a headline-grabbing run for governor in 2022.
She lost narrowly but her allegations of election fraud chimed with former President Donald Trump own strategy and she she has become a darling of the MAGA faithful.
Since then she has tried to navigate a path to the center as she takes on Gallego, a Marine veteran and 10-year member of Congress.
In recent weeks she has closed the gap on Gallego. But six different polls published in the past week or so suggest she is running at an average of 43 percent to his 50 percent.
Democrats have won three Senate races in a row since 2018, and the contest this year is for the seat vacated by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who won as a Democratic candidate before turning independent.
It is not the first time Clinton has been accused of making a gaffe.
During a recent event in Georgia he turned his focus to immigration and accused Republicans of sabotaging a bill that would have tightened security along the border and better controlled entry to the country.
‘You had a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn’t you? They made an ad about it. A young woman who had been killed by an immigrant,’ he said, referring to the story of Laken Riley.
‘Yeah, well, if they’d all been properly vetted, that probably wouldn’t have happened.’
But the Trump campaign quickly seized on his words as criticism of the Biden-Harris administration’s border policy.