Kari Lake has tried just about everything to get elected in the Grand Canyon State.

A relentless parade of lawsuits have been filed by Ms. Lake (all unsuccessful) accompanied by a spewing of whiny unevidenced claims over being the “victim” of election fraud when she lost to Governor Katie Hobbs— and now Lake wants to be the GOP answer to a Senate seat in a swing state.

There’s just one problem—the millstone around her neck.

Her very public, very aggressive pledge that Arizona would be the “sanctuary state” for the unborn— or that abortion was the ultimate sin and that she was among those candidates that endorsed a federal ban on abortion.

Fast forward to Saturday and Lake’s about-face on the issue that has become political poison for the GOP and where abortion rights will take center stage in the battleground states and the march to the presidential election.

But Lake has never been particularly creative or shown any kind of noteworthy independent thought—it’s always going to be—whatever works for her— in the moment— and in this case, she’s simply another (about what we would expect) copy-cat of the GOP MAGA crew that realize what they’re up against with abortion rights.

Yep, many hard line GOP candidates across the nation are skipping to a new abortion beat.

But abortion rights activists and supporters aren’t buying any of the GOP reversal tactics and they don’t have to when even conservative (red) states are passing legislation that will protect abortion rights for women in light of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.  

Ms. Lake, (or, Trump’s most loyal devotee) is more than aware that the former president has been out bragging about his power and taking credit for overturning Roe v Wade through his Supreme Court.

But Lake just blames the Democrats for the very messed up messaging and the GOP abortion platform.

“Republicans allowed Democrats to define them on abortion,” Ms. Lake said in a statement to The New York Times.

Wait…so that wasn’t Kari Lake who during a primary gubernatorial debate said she supported and would enforce, if elected, the pre-Roe ban on abortion which would prohibit the procedure in nearly all cases and would criminalize doctors who perform it?  

Arizona abortion rights activists are intent on getting Lake’s true stance on abortion out there.

And just like the words from Trump’s own mouth, activists will be there to remind voters that it was indeed Trump’s court that overturned Roe and showcase the GOP candidates like Kari Lake who carried the flag of  barbaric refrain in support of laws that would eliminate (even criminalize) women for their personal and health choices—“We will be there to refresh the minds of all voters in a country that is largely pro-choice,”  said Arizona abortion rights activist, Tammy Boyd.

“Trump ushered in the ability to make many of archaic—even criminalized abortion laws stick that were previously on state books but never enforced.”

“What we’re seeing now is a state by state battle on abortion access and protection and many GOP legislators are still calling up barbaric “laws” to put in place because they saw an open door with Roe v Wade being overturned.”

“Republicans are doing this, not Democrats,” Boyd said.

Abortion activists say they’re all in for the fight and that even conservative states have broken with harsh abortion rulings and are standing, state by state, and taking back the right for women to control their personal healthcare choices.

“There’s no more going backwards.”

“So tell Ms. Lake, Mr. Trump and all GOP candidates who try to eliminate and criminalize our choices even further, that they will hear from us at the ballot box.”

“Trump’s own words will come back to haunt him and every GOP candidate out there.”

“After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade, much to the ‘shock’ of everyone,” Trump, the former president and possible 2024 Republican nomination, said on his social media platform.

But groups like Ms. Boyd’s are aggressively working to make certain that abortion access is not only available in Arizona, but they are intent in making Arizona one of the most progressive states on abortion access with a “front line” of legal advocacy for women who are denied access.

“We won’t be Texas,” Boyd said.

Serena Martinez, a colleague of Boyd told Northeast Valley News, “We are not fooled by Kari Lake’s supposed reversal on abortion— it’s her desperate campaign strategy and

we don’t believe anything she says. We will work tirelessly to keep Lake out of the Senate.”