Former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake said she is considering whether to run for the Senate in Arizona next year and believes she is the only candidate who can win.

Conservative and Christian, Lake said during comments at the Family Leadership Summit: meeting Senator Kirsten Cinema (Iowa, Arizona) will decide in the next few months whether she will run for the U.S. Senate in Iowa, with a decision likely to be made in the fall, NBC News said. . report.

But she said she thought she was the only candidate who could win the seat.

“Honestly, after seeing the poll results, I believe I’m the only one who can win that race,” Lake said Friday.

Lake has been rumored to be a candidate for the Senate for months after losing the gubernatorial race to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs in November. Mr. Lake filed a lawsuit contesting the outcome after his abstained election, but he refuses to concede defeat to Mr. Hobbes.

Her lawyers were fined more than $120,000 Friday after a federal court ruled that a lawsuit contesting the outcome in the state’s most populous county was “frivolous.” .

Lake is also a staunch supporter of former President Trump, reportedly consideration If he wins the Republican nomination, he will be the vice-presidential candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

“We have the opportunity to win a very important seat so that when President Trump returns to office, the people of Washington D.C. will be ready to support him on this great agenda.” You can make it look like you are,” she said at the event.

A poll released in April showed Mr. Lake leading potential Republican contenders for the Senate nomination, with 38 supporters against the next-closest 10% of candidates.

But some Republican strategists have expressed concern about the party’s electoral prospects if she continues to focus on voter fraud false claims in the nomination.

Cinema has not announced whether she will run for a second term. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Arizona) is running for the Democratic nomination to replace Cinema, who was originally elected as a Democrat but left the party to become an independent. Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb is currently the only major Republican candidate in the race.