“This attack was from a failed Republican gubernatorial candidate in Arizona,” [Trey] Gowdy said. “Three months ago, she thought that Ron DeSantis was the best thing since sliced bread. Now she wants you to think that Governor DeSantis was endorsed by George Soros. Of course, that’s not true, but why let the truth get in the way?”

Gowdy noted that Lake recently praised DeSantis by likening herself to being “the DeSantis of the West.”

“Honestly, other than being called ‘Trump in a dress,’ that is the greatest compliment you could pay me,” she said in a speech to supporters last year.

[Primary politics — it explains it even if it hardly justifies it. — Ed]