Sen. Ruben Gallego dismissed the possibility of facing a criminal mortgage fraud investigation called for by his former political rival Kari Lake, saying she is “bitter” and “a loser.”

In a wide-ranging interview Oct. 17 for The Arizona Republic’s weekly politics podcast, “The Gaggle,” the freshman Democratic senator from Arizona said he was unworried about the kind of probe that resulted in the indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat reviled by President Donald Trump.

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