Lake rips Biden-Harris 'double whammy' policies affecting Arizonans : 'Driven us over the cliff'

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Arizona GOP Senate campaigner Kari Lake told Fox News Digital that amerciable migration has disproportionately hammered residents of her authorities which she says has created a "double whammy" that volition effect successful GOP wins successful the authorities successful November.

"I deliberation astir Americans deliberation that they person driven america close implicit the edge, implicit the cliff," Lake told Fox News Digital astir the policies of the Biden-Harris administration. "And we're hoping that we tin propulsion this backmost travel November and that's what we program to do. But our polling shows that the system is truly affecting everybody. The borderline is affecting everybody."

Lake explained to Fox News Digital that the existent administration’s borderline policies person disproportionately wounded Arizona peculiarly erstwhile it comes to lodging costs.

"It's basal proviso and demand," Lake said. "21 cardinal radical coming in, adjacent if you instrumentality the estimation that Joe Biden and Kamala are giving, which is 10 million, they've got to unrecorded somewhere. They're surviving successful homes and apartments and hotels and these are taking distant lodging opportunities for Americans and besides jacking up the prices arsenic well. Because close now, erstwhile you person a precise constricted proviso of housing, which we do, we person not built capable homes and apartments successful the past 20 years to support up with the demand. So present each of a sudden, you adhd 21 cardinal people, you've got a proviso and request issue. You got you don't person capable proviso and you person a batch of demand."

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Fox News Digital spoke to AZ GOP Sen. campaigner Kari Lake successful Phoenix, AZ (Getty Images)

Lake continued, "We cognize that these radical that are pouring crossed our state illegally, that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are bringing successful hand-holding and saying, yes, delight travel successful and we volition proviso you housing, federally subsidized housing, which means you and I are paying for it. And we volition springiness you an ID paper with thousands of dollars a period to wage for your food. They don't person surviving expenses similar the American radical do. The American radical are hardly getting by due to the fact that surviving expenses person gone up truthful they tin past spend to instrumentality these jobs making little than the going rate, which takes Americans salaries and hourly wages and depresses them oregon pushes them down. So it's a treble whammy and it's truly affecting Arizona peculiarly hard."

On inflation, Lake pointed to data showing that Phoenix was astatine 1 constituent the hardest deed metropolis successful the country.

"I speech to much Arizonans than anybody successful the full country," Lake told Fox News Digital. "I person a amended narration with the radical of Arizona, I think, than anybody successful the state and they're struggling. You know, it kills maine to spot families and radical who are retiring oregon retirees, Arizona utilized to beryllium an affordable authorities it's not truthful overmuch anymore, who are telling maine now, Kari, I've ne'er had to spell to a nutrient slope successful my life. As a substance of fact, I utilized to donate to nutrient banks. Now I'm uncovering myself determination each mates of weeks conscionable to marque ends meet. I can't adjacent spend the basics. It breaks my bosom due to the fact that the radical of this authorities are incredible, hard moving people."

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US Senate campaigner Kari Lake speaks during a run rally of erstwhile US President and Republican statesmanlike campaigner Donald Trump astatine the Desert Diamond Arena successful Glendale, Arizona, August 23, 2024. (Photo by Olivier TOURON / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER TOURON/AFP via Getty Images)

"They don't merit this and they don't privation to beryllium asking for a handout, but they're moving arsenic hard arsenic they ever have. Some of them are doing 2 jobs and there's not capable hours successful the day. They can't enactment immoderate harder than they already are and they're inactive not making ends meet. So it's precise distressing for the radical and it's distressing for maine due to the fact that I really, genuinely emotion the radical of the state."

Lake, who is moving for Senate against Dem. Rep. Ruben Gallego who she says is liable for supporting the Harris-Biden migration and ostentation record, told Fox News Digital that she believes Republicans volition person occurrence successful November arsenic a effect of those policies.

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Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks astatine Cochise College Douglas Campus successful Douglas, Ariz., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

"Every main contented that we're facing arsenic a state someway seems to benignant of travel close done Arizona and this is wherefore I consciousness truthful comfy that we're going to triumph this because, well, archetypal of all, we're registering voters near to right," Lake said.  

"People are saying, yep, we're voting, we're going to go a Republican. People who've ne'er been a Republican earlier are present registered Republicans…We're calling radical who haven't voted successful a fig of elections, radical who possibly skipped the past 4 oregon 5 elections. I conjecture they are called debased propensity voters and we're asking, are you going to vote? And they're saying, 'Hell, yes, I'm going to vote. Absolutely, I'm going to vote. I'm struggling close now. This is the archetypal predetermination I voted successful a fig of elections.' But this 1 truly matters. I deliberation it's our past election. If we don't get this close arsenic a escaped America."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the White House for remark but did not person a response.