Kari Lake left her signature sledgehammer at home during her Monday night interview on CNN.

Instead, she brought a shovel and proceeded to deepen her political grave.

I picture former Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jeff DeWit — who tried to warn her that she shouldn’t run for the U.S. Senate so soon after a bruising 2022 loss for governor — laughing his head off.

Lake’s interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins was a thing of beauty, if you admire the practiced art of the political dodge.

There was the usual abortion wiggle, in which Lake talked about how pleased she is that the people of Arizona get to vote on whether that which she has called the “ultimate sin” should now be a constitutional right.

There was Collins’ attempt to get Lake to explain her softened abortion stance, prompting Lake to hold up a child’s shoe she picked up at the border and to talk about the dangers of New York City to a New Yorker.

“I was just in New York City. I believe that’s where you are broadcasting live tonight,” Lake said. “The streets aren’t safe anymore. The subways aren’t safe anymore.”

“I take the subway all the time,” Collins responded. “It is safe.”

But it was Lake’s bobbing and weaving on the 2022 election that had me recalling DeWit’s attempt to warn her off running again in 2024.

The former state treasurer and Trump appointee had just been elected party chairman in January 2023, and the party was just coming off a disastrous 2022 election season in which Lake........

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