reporter: a cornerstone of lake s campaign? baseless fraud claims raised by the republican-led sham review of maricopa county s 2020 presidential election. the system is corrupt. have you followed what s happened in our election here? absolutely. i covered the audit. reporter: relentlessly, repeating misinformation. do you think it was the right thing to do to delete a bunch of million files the day before the audit? that was roundly debunked. not by the press but by the maricopa county recorder s office. okay well, you are buying into everything they say. these are the same people who did not want this forensic audit. i know what you guys are trying to do. you don t give a damn about our elections. you have got a narrative, and you are trying to push it. and what is that narrative? we the narrative is everything it s fraudit. it s fake. i will be damned if when i am governor, we are going to have another election run this way. i m afraid for our future. repor
rising star of the right wing. and proud spreader of lies about the 2020 election results. you could say biden won the presidency kind of like oj is innocent. you re amazing. reporter: lake is among a group of 2022 arizona candidates putting election falsehoods at the heart of their candidacy. you know what this is? reporter: secretary of state candidate mark finchem, also endorsed by trump great job, mark. you re going to win big, mark. reporter: is repeating the very lie trump wants followers to believe. by removing the fraud, donald trump won. reporter: ignoring facts and reality. finchem, a four-term state representative, wants to be arizona s chief elections officer. but lake has gained early attention. a presumed front-runner in arizona. i am kari lake with a look at the top stories.
candidates running for office in arizona. one candidate there is even suspected of being q, the leader of qanon. a reminder, arizona is where republicans spent months conducting a so-called audit and found no proof to support the former president s false claims of a stolen election. these candidates are dug in. and some are talking to cnn s kyung lah. no masks in here? [ applause ] another round of applause. of course, the media the media is all masked up because they want to spread the fear. reporter: this is our introduction to arizona gubernatorial candidate kari lake, a donald trump endorsed republican candidate for 2022. rising star of the right wing. and proud spreader of lies about the 2020 election results. you could say biden won the presidency kind of like oj is innocent. you re amazing. reporter: lake is among a
group of 2022 arizona candidates putting election falsehoods at the heart of their candidacy. secretary of state candidate, mark finchem, also endorsed by trump, is repeating the very lie trump wants followers to believe. by removing the fraud, donald trump won. reporter: ignoring facts and reality. finchem, a four-term state representative wants to be arizona s chief elections officer. but lake has gained early attention. a presumed front-runner in arizona. i am kari lake with a look at the top stories. reporter: a longtime former phoenix television anchor who quit her job. lake has built a name i.d. and a dedicated following like the students who insisted on gathering around her. you have a crowd. hi, everyone. reporter: as she agreed to speak with cnn. are you going to win? i believe we will. yeah.
reporter: a longtime former phoenix television anchor who quit her job. lake has built a name i.d. and a dedicated following like the students who insisted on gathering around her. you have a crowd. hi, everyone. reporter: as she agreed to speak with cnn. are you going to win? i believe we will. yeah. reporter: a cornerstone of lake s campaign? baseless fraud claims raised by the republican-led sham review of maricopa county s 2020 presidential election. the system is corrupt. have you not followed what s happened in our election here? absolutely. i covered the audit. reporter: relentlessly repeating misinformation. do you think it was the right thing to do to delete a bunch of million files the day before the audit? that was roundly debunked. not by the press but by the maricopa county recorder s office. zblk okay. well, you re buying into everything they say. these are the same people who did not want this forensic audit. i know what you guys are trying to do. y