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CPAC 2023: Kari Lake leans into Trump and stolen election claims during gala

Former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake heaped praise on former President Donald Trump as a "bull in a China shop" during a gala speech in which she repeatedly rejected the legitimacy of her electoral defeat last year.

Lake contended that there is a battle between the "globalists vs. we the people" and characterized Trump as the great champion on behalf of the people during a keynote address to hundreds of VIP guests at the Ronald Reagan dinner for the Conservative Political Action Conference. Her speech illustrated Trump's dominance at CPAC.

"Donald Trump not only warned us about it — he started to dismantle that entrenched globalist machine," she said. "That man was a bull in a China shop. And I missed that man so much. That's exactly what we need right now."

Harkening back to the American Revolution, she suggested that the country was founded through a fight between "globalists vs. the colonists" and that "we still have that DNA from our founding fathers."

She juxtaposed Trump with President Joe Biden, decrying the latter as weak. At one point, she suggested Biden had "blood on his hands for this young generation" due to the border crisis. She later postulated that Trump could've brokered a peace deal in Ukraine in "24 hours."

Hundreds of people attended the gala at the Potomac Ballroom located in the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. Attendees were served steak and salmon.
Tickets sold for about $375 apiece but did not appear to fly off the shelf, with some remaining available a few days before the dinner took place. Guests largely dressed more formally than at the run-of-the-mill CPAC events, which were laxer in attire.