Kari Lake Urges Defunding of PBS, Calls It “Anti-American” and “Left-Wing”

Swoboda Condemns PBS Bias but Defends Funding; Trump Has Long Opposed Federal Support for PBS and NPR

Arizona GOP Chair Gina Swoboda sent out a mailer on August 14 that recently surfaced on social media in which she blasted PBS for viewpoint discrimination but stopped short of supporting efforts to eliminate its public funding.

The statement marked an unusual break from Republican leaders who have long pushed to defund public broadcasting, and it drew sw…