PHOENIX — As top Democratic candidates in Arizona this week have sought to portray their Republican rivals as a danger to democracy, Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for governor, took the stage at a campaign rally before a boisterous crowd on Thursday.
Ms. Lake, a former news anchor, kept her voice calm and steady.
She did not say the 2020 election was “crooked,” “corrupt” or “stolen,” a lie that she used to launch her campaign and that still animated many, if not most, conservative voters in the audience on Thursday evening. She did not mention it at all.
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