Former President Donald Trump is concerned that Lake has spent too much time hobnobbing with the MAGA elite and not enough time focused on winning what Trump sees as a crucial election for his prospects in an all-important battleground state.
At one point last year, after grumbling for months that she was at his Mar-a-Lago Club too often, Trump gently suggested to Lake that she should leave the club and hit the campaign trail in Arizona.
Trump has also asked others if she can really win in Arizona and if she might drag down his own poll numbers as he seeks the presidency again in 2024, advisers said.
Trump also privately thinks Lake's 2022 election fraud claims are bogus, according to the report. She didn't win, Trump bluntly told a political ally at a Mar-a-Lago dinner earlier this year, according to the Post.
The incident in which a Lake ally released a tape of former Arizona GOP chair Jeff DeWit appearing to show Lake being offered a bribe to not run for Senate in 2024 caught Trump's attention, surprising him when he learned about it on the night of the New Hampshire primary in January.
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