Kari Lake Tells Piers Morgan Trump Will Win Election Even if Convicted

Gage Skidmore

Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake told British journalist Piers Morgan that “the people will vote for” Donald Trump “even if he was sitting in Alcatraz” when asked about how a criminal conviction will impact Trump’s electoral prospects.

“What if he’s in prison?” Morgan asked Lake. “I mean, genuine question: he’s facing 91 criminal charges. What if he’s convicted of one or some of those charges and actually gets put into a prison cell? I mean, it could happen. Under the Constitution, he would still be able to run the country, but would that be a good thing?”

“We’ve seen the witch hunts,” she responded. “They’ve been going on since President Trump had the courage to step into the political arena. And there’s been one witch hunt after the next and most of it fueled by the media, sadly. And even if he was sitting in Alcatraz, the people will vote for him because they know he’s going to put America first.” 

Though polls consistently show Trump’s popularity among Republicans increasing despite his numerous legal challenges, most of those polls also indicate that a criminal conviction will cost the former president considerable support, undermining Lake’s analysis.

Lake, a former Arizona news personality, has been an outspoken Trump supporter since 2021. She ran an unsuccessful campaign for the state’s governorship and lost to its then-Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. 

Lake, like Trump, refused to concede defeat. 

She announced her candidacy for the 2024 U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, running against Democratic challenger Ruben Gallego and—potentially—its independent incumbent, Kyrsten Sinema.