'Garbage': Kari Lake put on defense after accusations she keeps antisemites in her orbit

Arizona Republican Kari Lake is fending off accusations that she keeps cozy ties to antisemites or White Nationalists.

Lake and rival Arizona House Democrat Ruben Gallego clashed on Twitter/X with Gallego taking the first shot in a back-and-forth first reported by Newsweek.

Gallego essentially attacked Lake with a saying mother told him growing up.

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In both Spanish and English he wrote in the Tuesday tweet: "tell me who you walk with and I'll tell you who you are." He then dug into Lake: "Kari Lake has shown us exactly who she is."

Lake retorted: "Such garbage from the Arizona Repugnant and their leftist columnist whose source is the [billionaire investor George] Soros funded Media Matters."

"Meanwhile, they ignore the fact that Ruben Gallego has voted to support bloodthirsty Hamas terrorists. Gallego is antisemitic and he needs to be voted out of office."

Just weeks after Lake threw her hat into the race to become Arizona's next senator, the former TV anchor and gubernatorial candidate (who has yet to concede she lost the November 2022 state race to Democrat Katie Hobbs) has been brushing off accusations that she enjoys keeping antisemites in her orbit.

"Lake has also embraced and helped platform numerous antisemites in just the past few years," according to the watchdog nonprofit Media Matters which attempted to lay out specifically who is in Lake's good graces.

The list quotes Lake as offering a full-throated endorsement of a streamer-turned-politician named Jarrin Jackson who had run for Oklahoma's legislature.

Jackson has been quoted as saying “the Jews” are evidence that “evil exists."

Other alleged antisemites classified by Media Matters include appearing on a show hosted by former CIA officer Michael Scheuer who is quoted calling Jews “disloyal and subversive," streaming host Strew Peters whom the outlet called a White Nationalist, a "pro-Nazi blogger" named Grayson Arnold, a fitness guru named Ian Smith