Former President Bill Clinton described Arizona Senate candidate and close Trump ally Kari Lake as ‘physically attractive’ during a campaign event with her opponent on Wednesday evening.
The comments were designed to highlight how the firebrand Republican saw politics as a performance.
But they could be seen as an own goal, coming from a politician with a reputation as a womanizer.
Clinton appeared alongside Democratic candidate Reuben Gallego, 44, and set out his view of the Arizona race.
‘This is like a beautiful microcosm of the campaign that Kamala Harris is running for president,’ he said.
Former President Bill Clinton described Arizona Senate candidate and close Trump ally Kari Lake as ‘physically attractive’ during a campaign event with her opponent on Thursday
‘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.’
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.
Kari Lake is running about seven points behind Gallego in the Arizona Senate race
Former President Bill Clinton, right, briefly speaks with Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Ruben Gallego as Clinton takes the stage at a campaign event supporting Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris
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.
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