Arizona Republican Kari Lake Booted from Gubernatorial Town Hall Audience: She ‘Brought the Drama’ – By People Staff (People) / Oct 10, 2022
The organizers of a town hall event featuring two candidates running for Arizona governor say the Republican candidate, Kari Lake, was asked to leave the audience after it appeared she tried to disrupt the event for her opponent, Katie Hobbs.
NBC News reports that both Lake and Hobbs had agreed that neither would be onstage while the other was speaking, with Hobbs slated to speak first.
But the event was briefly upended when Lake — a Republican who has molded her self in the image of former President Donald Trump — sat in the front row before Hobbs took the stage, directly in the line of site of the Democrat.
Per NBC News, Lake was told to return to a waiting area and initially refused, calling on her opponent to come debate her. Eventually, Lake complied with the organizers of the event and left the audience ahead of her own time on stage.
