The Republican Accountability Project (RAP) has been busy over the past few weeks, seemingly working hand-in-hand with Arizona Democrats who want nothing more than for Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake to go down in flames before Election Day.
However, those groups seem to keep running into the same obstacle in that Lake is too smart, too fast and too gracious for their attacks to take hold. Once again, that was proven in an interaction she had with a reporter regarding a recent attack ad that showed the grieving mother of deceased U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick blaming Lake for her son’s death, Fox News reported.
Lake responded to the reporter’s question not as a politician, but as a mother. Lake offered her condolences and sent Gladys Sicknick an unforgettable message, even as the slain officer’s mother was clearly being used as a political tool.
“The mother of Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer that died the day after January 6. She, in an attack ad, is saying that people like you, specifically, are responsible for her son’s death. I’m curious what you think when you hear that,” a reporter identifying himself as “Chris” from CBS asked Lake.
Lake’s response to the gotcha question went viral for good reason.
“I’m so sorry about the death of your son, it’s tragic. I’m a mother myself, and that is, it breaks my heart.” Lake began. “That is a wound, when you lose a child, no matter how old they are, that never heals. And so I don’t want to disparage her.”