MAGA Republican Kari Lake is schooled by reporter at RNC over JD Vance’s Trump is ‘Hitler’ comment

Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidateKari Lake appeared caught off guard when questioned about Donald Trump‘s running mate pick JD Vance likening the former president to Adolf Hitler.

On Saturday, the former president was shot in the ear when a gunman turned a Pennsylvania rally into a war zone. Days later, former BBC presenter Emily Maitlis pressed the Arizona Senate candidate about the need for a “new tone in politics.” Lake, who refused to concede her 2022 election loss to Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, spoke at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday.

Maitlis asked Lake whether she believed the “the tone in American politics got out of hand?”

“I think the tone is really disturbing when the media is calling a man like Donald Trump, Hitler. They are comparing him to Hitler,” the Trump loyalist said.

“LikeJD Vance did you mean?” the journalist fired back, referring to a resurfaced text message from Trump’s vice presidential pick wondering whether the former president was “America’s Hitler.”

The Arizona Republican stumbled on her words before saying: “Like the media is doing.”

She insisted that Vance probably listened to the media. Lake called Trump a “good man that everybody loved before he ran.” She continued: “Imagine having a smear campaign going on about you for eight years – pretty soon everyone wouldn’t like you.”

People like Vance are realizing “the media was lying and I believed it,” Lake suggested.

When Maitlis asked why Lake pushed election fraud claims, Lake asked whether Maitlis thought Biden “was more popular than Barack Obama” for getting more votes in 2020 than the former president did in his own election victories, adding that you “have to have brain cells” to not believe that.

“I believe the