Kari Lake is going up against Ruben Gallego for the US Senate to represent Arizona. Ruben Gallego beat Kari Lake. Kari Lake had 1,050,375 votes and had 47,6%.  Ruben Gallego had 1,111,668 votes and had 50.4%.

Kari Lake is a republican and she is 55 years old. Kari Lake was born in 1969, in Rock Island, Illinois. She graduated from North Scott Senior High School in Eldridge, Iowa and received a Bachelor of Arts in communications and journalism from the University of Iowa. She is married to Jeff Halperin and has two children, Ruby Halperin and Leo Halperin. 

Kari was a member of the Republican Party until November 3, 2006, when she changed her registration to become an independent. She registered as a Democrat on January 4, 2008, the day after the Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses were won by Obama. 

Lake filed paperwork in June 2021 to seek the Republican nomination for governor of Arizona in the 2022 election to succeed incumbent governor Doug Ducey, who was term-limited. The Hill also noted that Lake “sought to strike a more conciliatory tone with Republicans” compared to her 2022 campaign. Kari Lake announced her candidacy for the 2024 United States Senate election in Arizona on October 10, 2023. In November 2023, Politico noted that Lake had pivoted from the fire-and-brimstone approach of her gubernatorial campaign to a more diplomatic approach, seeking to mend relationships with Republicans she had previously attacked. In January 2024, Lake publicly called for Arizona Republican Party chair Jeff DeWitt to resign for being “corrupt and compromised”, with DeWit resigning a day later.