Kari Lake is probably gonna lose the Arizona senate race for the GOP, just as she lost them the governorship.
In a way, she is playing the grift perfectly, she doesn't have to do any actual work, while scamming her followers for money.
She is doing what Trump was supposed to do in 2016, get close but not actually win, claim fraud and grift indefinitely.
He did want to win in 2020, sure, to run away from legal troubles and so on, but not the first time, I don't think.
Of course, it might be that Lake actually wants to win, but it sure don't seem like the main priority, at least.