The daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr slammed the GOP Arizona gubernatorial candidate, Kari Lake, on Wednesday after she claimed her father would have been a Republican if he was alive today.
Lake made the bizarre comments while speaking with Tulsi Gabbard at a campaign event on Tuesday. Gabbard announced last week that she was leaving the Democratic Party.
Gabbard claimed the Democratic Party of “Dr. Martin Luther King and the party of JFK” no longer exist. “It’s a very different party.”
“Actually, I think [that party] does [exist],” Lake said. “I think [that party] is America-first. I’m a true believer that if MLK, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, if JFK were alive today, if our founding fathers were alive today, they would be America-First Republicans. I really believe that.”
Lake’s response prompted a sharp rebuke from Dr. King’s daughter, Bernice King.
King said Lake was being “dismissive” of her father’s “seminal work and beliefs” such as “ending/preventing voter suppression and treating all, including immigrants, with dignity.”
