Kari Lake was serving beer at the Iowa State Fair on Friday night, but Bud Light wasn’t on tap — literally.
Bud Light’s taps were removed ahead of their performance at Steer N’ Stein, a food and alcohol venue for the annual event.
Lake spent about an hour at the venue. She was at the show to serve as Donald Trump’s deputy. She talked about his presidential campaign, handed out new green hats with his tag, and stopped behind the bar to pour a few pints.
However, the Bud Light tab was conspicuously absent after Anheuser-Busch lost $27 billion through a partnership with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney. Social media posts touting Mulvaney and Bud Light’s professional relationship followed, as well as the months-long storm of backlash that is still being felt.
Kari Lake serves beer at the Iowa State Fair, but the sign for Bud Light — which was supposed to be between the red Budweiser and white Busch spigots — was missing
A venue worker said Bud Light’s taps were removed prior to Lake’s arrival. There was an empty space between the tabs for Budweiser and Bush Light.
Lake shrugged when asked about the absence and continued to fill beer glasses. She also autographed the new hats that the Trump campaign was giving out. The lime green hats with gold lettering read, “President Donald Trump, Back to Back Iowa Champ.”
Trump is scheduled to be at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday.
Lake, who lost her vote after speaking to thousands of voters at the Iowa State Fair, told she spent most of Friday speaking to a few thousand independent voters about “making sure that they be registered as Republicans so they can vote.’ Attending the caucus for President Trump.’
But she bravely ended the day in the popular pub at the fair. She talked to people there, posed for lots of photos and sipped on a beer between shots.
Earlier that day, Lake milked a cow at the Iowa State Fair, arguing that the animals prove there are only two sexes — because a bull can’t be milked.
Lake, the Republican who failed in her attempt to be elected governor of Arizona last year, attended the annual event to campaign for Donald Trump.
She stopped at the dairy barn to take a stand against what conservatives call “bright” ideas, particularly when it comes to a person’s gender.
Lake, dressed in jeans and boots, placed a stool next to the cow, sat down, and got to work.
“You know, there are only two genders, right?” she said to the many journalists watching her.
“I challenge the New York Times reporter and the Washington Post reporter to try milking a cow and then try milking a bull and see how that goes,” she said.
Bud Light is trying to recover from his controversy with Dylan Mulvaney (above).
Kari Lake hands a beer to a voter in Iowa
Some conservative Republicans have questioned “transgender” ideas and rejected people trying to redefine their gender. The “war on waking” has become a rallying cry for many GOP candidates.
Two Trump supporters with large signs bearing the former president’s name flanked Lake as she milked the cow.
Lake was out and about at the fair throughout the day to act as Trump’s proxy. She visited the famous butter cow and told voters about Trump’s campaign.
The former president will arrive in Des Moines on Saturday to spend a few hours at the fair – a must for presidential candidates.
Trump will be at the fairgrounds on the same day as his rivals Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley. The former president plans to bring with him a group of Florida lawmakers who have backed his presidential bid over DeSantis.
He’s ahead in the polls. He was 17 points ahead of DeSantis in a poll of Republicans in Iowa conducted by Republican polling firm JL Partners for .
And the RealClearPolitics poll average for Iowa voters leads Trump by 27 points.
Kari Lake challenged reporters to try milking a bull with her
Trump campaign workers hold up Trump flags for a photo with Kari Lake
The latest /JL Partners poll shows that 43% of likely Republican caucus attendees in Iowa will support Donald Trump, compared to just 17% who support Ron DeSantis
Lake, meanwhile, said she is considering running for the Senate in her native Arizona.
It will probably be a three-way race.
Senator Kyrsten Sinema is up for re-election in 2024. She changed her party affiliation from Democratic to Independent. On the Democratic side, MP Ruben Gallego is running for the nomination.