Republican candidate draws laughter with mockery of attack on Paul Pelosi

The Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, Kari Lake, drew laughter at a campaign event in Scottsdale on Monday with a remark about the attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of the Democratic US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi.

Paul Pelosi, 82, was attacked with a hammer at his home in San Francisco on Friday. He remained in intensive care on Monday but was expected to recover.

Arizona was one of the states in which Donald Trump tried to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020, wielding the lie that Democrats benefited from electoral fraud.

Trump has endorsed Lake and Lake has endorsed his lie. A week ahead of midterms election day, Lake leads her Democratic opponent, Katie Hobbs, by more than three points.