SAFFORD — Karrin Taylor Robson, who is in a hard-fought battle with Kari Lake to win the Republican nomination for governor, made a campaign stop in the Gila Valley on Thursday, speaking to GOP faithful at Kempton Chevrolet.
“Could you have imagined that, in two years, less than two years, how far this country has gone? None of us could have predicted this; at least I couldn’t. This happened so fast (and) that’s why I’m running,” she said. “We’re being overrun at our border, and our freedoms are being attacked from Washington, D.C.”
She called herself an “unapologetic conservative, and always have been. I believe our rights come from God and not the government; I believe in limited government; I believe in right to life, I have been pro-life my whole life and always will be; I believe in the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, all of them but I have four favorites — First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fifth Amendment and 10th Amendment.”
Robson said she supports former President Trump, and told the crowd they would have to ask him why he endorsed Lake rather than her.
She said Arizona is not suffering a border crisis, but rather a “border war.”
“We have people coming in from over 140 countries now, 17 of which are on the Special Interest Nations list. Those are nations that don’t like us, and they’re flooding over our border. So, yes, it’s a national security crisis,” Robson said.
While the border is a priority, she said education is her passion. Robson said pay has to be better for teachers, that parents should be in charge of education, and tax dollars should be attached to the child because competition for those dollars will encourage schools to improve.
On the issue of water, Robson said it’s time for the state to look at new technologies.
“Desalinization, you hear a lot about that now,” she said. “I also have in my water plan cloud seeding.”
Robson closed by saying, “The left is coming for us, and they want to turn Arizona into something we don’t recognize . . . Arizona is the front line, literally and figuratively, in the battle for the soul of this country.”
The primary election is Aug. 2 and early voting is going on now.
