Kari Lake
American political figure
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| March 3 2025 | Sworn in as a special advisor to the United States Agency for Global Media, overseeing Voice of America. |
| 2024 | Received endorsement from the Log Cabin Republicans for her Senate campaign. |
| December 11 2024 | President-elect Trump announced Lake's appointment as the next director of Voice of America. |
| November 2024 | The court confirmed that Lake and Richer had settled the defamation case. |
| November 2024 | The Arizona Supreme Court declined to hear Lake's final appeal, effectively ending her legal challenges to the 2022 election result. |
| November 2024 | Lake was defeated by Democratic nominee Ruben Gallego in the November 2024 general election, receiving approximately 80,000 fewer votes. |
| July 2024 | Won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, but subsequently lost the general election to Ruben Gallego. |
| June 2024 | The Ninth Circuit tersely denied Finchem and Lake's appeal of the Supreme Court's rejection. |
| April 2024 | The United States Supreme Court rejected Finchem and Lake's lawsuit challenging the 2022 election voting machines. |
| April 2024 | Lake made a provocative statement about the upcoming election campaign, suggesting potential intense conflict and referencing being prepared with 'armor of God' and potentially a firearm. |
| April 20 2024 | Reverted to supporting the 1864 abortion law after state officials indicated they would not prosecute offenders. |
| April 11 2024 | After the Arizona Supreme Court ruled to enforce the 1864 territorial law, Lake said the law was 'out of step with Arizonans' and urged legislators to find a 'common sense solution'. |
| March 2024 | Shifted position to denounce the 1864 anti-abortion law and support Arizona's abortion restriction after 15 weeks. |
| March 2024 | Lake abandoned her appeal of Judge Hannah's ruling regarding ballot envelope information. |
| March 2024 | Lake requested a hearing for a default judgment against herself in the defamation case, choosing not to contest the claim and asking for the trial to proceed to determine the damages she would have to pay Richer. |
| February 2024 | Lake continued to question the 2022 election results, stating she doesn't know 'who exactly stole the election'. |
| February 2024 | Lake spoke at CPAC, making a controversial statement about wanting 'alpha men' instead of 'beta men'. |
| January 2024 | Lake publicly called for Arizona Republican Party chair Jeff DeWit to resign, accusing him of being 'corrupt and compromised', which led to DeWit's resignation the next day. |
| December 2023 | A Maricopa County judge denied Lake's motion to dismiss the defamation lawsuit, ruling that her statements were not 'rhetorical hyperbole' and would not be protected by the First Amendment if proven false. |
| November 2023 | Reaffirmed support for the 1864 Arizona abortion ban. |
| November 2023 | Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah ruled against Lake's lawsuit seeking ballot envelope information, citing risks of voter fraud and privacy concerns. |
| October 10 2023 | Kari Lake announced her candidacy for the 2024 United States Senate election in Arizona. |
| June 2023 | Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer filed a defamation lawsuit against Kari Lake, alleging she repeatedly accused him of intentionally sabotaging the 2022 election by printing wrong-sized ballots and injecting 300,000 illegal votes into the Maricopa County vote count. |
| May 22 2023 | Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson ruled against Lake's final election claim, re-affirming Katie Hobbs' election victory. |
| April 2023 | Lake sued Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer to compel production of 1.3 million ballot affidavit envelopes. |
| March 22 2023 | The Arizona Supreme Court denied Lake's request to hear her lawsuit, ruling that lower courts had correctly dismissed most of her claims. |
| February 2023 | Lake claimed that if elections were 'fair', Republican candidates would dominate Congress, the Senate, the White House, and state governorships. |
| February 16 2023 | A three-judge panel of the Arizona Court of Appeals unanimously rejected Lake's appeal of the election lawsuit dismissal. |
| January 2 2023 | Katie Hobbs was sworn in as governor, officially succeeding Lake. |
| 2022 | Reversed previous support for gender transition, stating that gender and sex are determined at birth. |
| 2022 | Expressed support for the 1864 Arizona Territory anti-abortion law, which prohibited abortion except to save the mother's life. |
| December 24 2022 | Judge Thompson completely dismissed Lake's remaining election lawsuit, ruling there was no clear evidence of intentional misconduct. |
| December 19 2022 | Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson dismissed eight of ten counts in Lake's election lawsuit. |
| December 15 2022 | Listed as an honoree and presenter at the 'Spirit of Lincoln Gala' held by the Log Cabin Republicans at Mar-a-Lago. |
| December 9 2022 | After Arizona certified the election results, Lake filed a state court lawsuit seeking to overturn Katie Hobbs' victory or redo the election in Maricopa County. |
| December 5 2022 | Arizona officially certified election results, confirming Lake's loss to Hobbs by over 17,000 votes. |
| November 17 2022 | Lake refused to concede and announced she was assembling a legal team to challenge the election results. |
| November 14 2022 | Multiple media outlets projected Lake's narrow loss in the Arizona gubernatorial election to Katie Hobbs. |
| November 11 2022 | Phoenix Police Department reported that laboratory tests found 'no substance' in the envelopes turned over by Lake's campaign. |
| November 6 2022 | Lake's campaign reported receiving suspicious envelopes with white powder at their campaign office. |
| October 2022 | The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected Finchem and Lake's appeal to ban electronic voting machines. |
| October 2022 | Kari Lake twice refused to commit to accepting the election result if she lost the gubernatorial race. |
| September 2022 | Lake attended a gubernatorial candidate forum hosted by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, where she separately answered questions alongside Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs. |
| August 2022 | U.S. District Judge John Tuchi dismissed Lake and Finchem's lawsuit against electronic voting machines, ruling they lacked standing. |
| August 2 2022 | Lake won the Republican primary in Arizona, securing victory in all counties. |
| July 2022 | Fox News reported on Lake's deleted 2017 Facebook post about Trump's inauguration, drawing attention to her past political rhetoric. |
| June 2022 | Praised the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the federal right to abortion. |
| June 2022 | During a Republican gubernatorial primary debate, Lake continued to make baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was 'stolen' and 'corrupt'. |
| April 2022 | Kari Lake and Mark Finchem sued state officials to ban electronic voting machines, seeking to prevent their use in the 2022 election. |
| 2021 | After the Maricopa County presidential ballot audit found no evidence of election fraud, Lake demanded the election be 'decertified', despite this being a legal impossibility. |
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