Kari Lake, the Republican Senate candidate in Arizona, has called her supporters to wear Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats to Cardinals games this season after a fan was denied entry to the stadium until removing it.
"Every Cardinals fan who loves America should wear their MAGA hat to EVERY AZ Cardinals game this season," Lake said in a publication on her X account. She was referencing an article published in 12 News, which recounted the incident involving a season ticket holder.
EVERY @AZCardinals fan who loves America should wear their MAGA hat to EVERY AZ Cardinals game this season. And fans should call @12News at tell them we demand honest reporting going forward and to sideline liberal Mark Lewis until after the election. We demand the truth!… https://t.co/bcw7vsmute
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) September 18, 2024
The fan in question, Susan Rosener, was told by a security guard that she couldn't enter the stadium with her black MAGA hat, saying it violated the stadium's policies on banned items.
"She's like, 'no political hats or shirts.' And I said I haven't heard that at all. And I said, that doesn't make sense to me. And she goes, 'I said, Take your hat off,'" Rosener told the outlet. She then proceeded to discard the hat and enter the premises.
"In retrospect, I wish I would have stood my ground a little bit, but I wasn't sure what the repercussions would be, and my husband would kill me if I did something with the season tickets or that jeopardizes them somehow," she added.
However, the outlet detailed, the team does not prohibit political items in stadiums. The team issued a statement saying the security member misinterpreted the policy and called it an isolated incident.
"Like most venues, "signage, posters, flags, or displays that are....political in nature" are not permitted. However, that did not apply in this instance. Moving forward we will work to provide clarity to all stadium personnel in these situations. We have also reached out to the individual involved to communicate that their experience was not consistent with our policies and practices and to apologize for that," reads a passage of the statement.
Lake's statement comes as she continues to trail her opponent, Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego in the polls ahead of the Senate elections. The latest study, conducted by Trafalgar Group between September 11 and 12 among 1,088 likely voters, shows Lake behind by four percentage points, garnering 43% of the prospective votes, compared to Gallego's 47%.
Even though it's a smaller margin than the two previous studies included in FiveThirtyEight's aggregator, this one was funded by the GOP. Lake has rejected surveys showing her behind her opponent, telling NewsNation that she is actually ahead in her "internal polling."
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