“Obviously, a mother’s really important in those first few years of a child’s life, in that nurturing phase, and then after that, I believe fathers are actually almost more important.” She describes women who grew up without fathers as often “searching for somebody to define them,” but that “when you have a strong father in your life as a girl, you don’t need somebody else to define you. While Lake describes her as an “amazing human,” she says she’s glad her father raised her. You just don’t have a relationship with them.” “Steve, they do have a relationship with you,” Lake told him, according to May. He said he found it unsettling that “people would come up to me at the grocery store, the airport, and just start a conversation as if they knew me and we had a prior relationship.” When he sat down with Lake for an interview, she asked how he was handling the attention. In 1999, May defied the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy. Republican Steve May, a former member of the Arizona House, has a piercing memory of Lake. “A lot of her values are at the core of our own values as a family.” They disagree with her on perhaps the most divisive social issue-they support abortion rights, she does not-but they don’t see that as a dealbreaker. Paul and Jenna Wyer, a couple in their 40s from Scottsdale, hung on to Lake’s every word. It was a vivid exhibition of Lake’s knack for retail politics and the credibility she has with the GOP base that comes from rebelling against the “fake news” from within. “I walked away from my paycheck, which was beautiful and large, because I realized what good is a paycheck, what good is all of that, if you don’t have a country to enjoy it in? If our children, if our babies, aren’t free?” And she paints her entry into politics as part of a last stand to save America from irreversible decline.
She whips them up by deriding schools for incorporating trans issues into the curriculum. They don’t want to ask about the struggles families are facing.”įor the next 55 minutes, Lake-garbed in a shiny pink blouse, her hair styled in a perfect pixie cut, a gold cross hanging below her neck-dazzles the crowd with personal asides, punchlines, and provocations. They don’t want to ask about security at the border. “Raise your hand if you’re with the fake news,” she says, to big belly laughs. It never takes long for Lake to take aim at her favorite target. “Are they offering two-for-one drinks, or what?” she says to the hundreds packed shoulder-to-shoulder. Although she regularly draws huge crowds, Lake still acts surprised over how many people show up to see her. It’s easy to see why when Lake takes the stage at a chic Scottsdale sports bar in mid-October. In other words, she could be the future of the Republican Party. Pundits are already speculating that Trump could tap her as a running mate in 2024. Yet even if Lake suffers a narrow loss, her growing profile and connection with crowds suggests she’ll remain a force within the GOP.
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