Kari Lake Sounds Alarm if Eric Swalwell’s ‘Best Friend’ Ruben Gallego Resigns — Warns Hobbs Could Handpick Replacement Until 2028

Lake exposed the nightmare scenario unfolding if radical Democrat Senator Ruben Gallego decides to cut and run amid the exploding scandal surrounding his “best friend” and longtime political ally, disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell.

Lake wrote on X:

“IMPORTANT— if Ruben Gallego resigns, the voters of Arizona will NOT choose who replaces him. The fraud sitting in the AZ Governor’s office named Katie Hobbs will pick the replacement who will then hold that Senate seat until 2028. Scary.”

She added, “She already knows who it is. God, Save Arizona.”

She already knows who it is.
God, Save Arizona

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) April 15, 2026

According to Arizona Revised Statutes § 16-222, when a vacancy occurs in the office of U.S. Senator, the Governor MUST appoint a person of the SAME POLITICAL PARTY as the one who vacated the seat.

Gallego is a Democrat, so Hobbs, the same radical who opposed Trump’s border measures and has been a disaster for Arizona, gets to handpick her preferred leftist to fill the slot.

And here’s where it gets even more outrageous: The timing seals the deal for the Democrats.

According to Arizona’s vacancy laws, the timing of the next election depends on when the vacancy happens:

• More than 150 days before a primary: If the vacancy occurs more than 150 days before the next regular primary election, the appointee serves only until the vacancy is filled at the next general election.
• 150 days or less before a primary: If the vacancy occurs 150 days or less before a primary, the appointee serves until the second regular general election after the vacancy occurs. 

With the next primary election just 98 days away on July 21, Arizona law dictates that the Hobbs-appointed replacement would serve until the SECOND regular general election after the vacancy, meaning they’d hold the seat all the way until 2028.

Lake’s comments come as Gallego faces increasing scrutiny from conservative media over his reported associations with controversial figures, including embattled former Congressman Eric Swalwell.

On Tuesday, Gallego held an emotional press conference where he admitted he “heard rumors” of Swalwell’s “flirty” behavior for years but chose to ignore them because, well, friendship.

He then proceeded to claim Swalwell “lied to all of us,” that their close personal ties “clouded his judgment,” and that he now “deeply regrets” the relationship.

A reporter asked Gallego if he was in the hotel room and sitting next to Swalwell on the bed in the leaked video.

Martin Shkreli and Jack Posobiec released videos of Swalwell sitting on a bed with a sex worker. A man who resembles Gallego is briefly seen sitting on the bed.

“Was that you sitting next to him?” a reporter asked Gallego.

Gallego said that was not him in the video.

“No, I was not sitting next to him, I was not in the room,” the Democrat Senator said.

“I didn’t know where it happened. Right-wing political operatives are pushing this narrative that somehow I was in that room with uh Eric Swalwell and that is an absolute lie,” he said.

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