| This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion publishes each week based on web readership.  Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America A year ago, Donald Trump thought he had a winner in Kari Lake, an election denier who had just lost her race for Arizona governor. "She's an amazing woman, respected by everybody," the former president said to cheers in a Scottsdale ballroom where Lake was launching her campaign to flip an open US Senate seat. "Kari is one of the toughest fighters in our movement, and I am proud to give her my complete and total endorsement." If Trump doesn't regret that endorsement by now, then the MAGA diehards of this swing state, with their increasingly tenuous hold on its Republican Party, almost certainly will by November. Lake's campaign against Democratic US Representative Ruben Gallego is in trouble. So much trouble that even Republican strategists think she's a goner, comparing her drag on the Republican Party ticket to North Carolina's toxic gubernatorial candidate, Mark Robinson. The latest New York Times/Siena College poll has Lake trailing Gallego by six percentage points. Another poll from the Marist Institute has her behind by a whopping 10%. Critically, Gallego leads 64% to 32% among independent voters, who comprise a third of the state's electorate. Polls have shown Gallego leading for months, and his margin has only widened. It's a sign of just how far and how fast Lake has fallen from her once-coveted perch in Trumpworld — and, assuming the polls are correct, a sign that it's time for Republicans to give up on the damaged MAGA brand if they want to start winning elections again in Arizona.
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