Kari Lake, a former candidate for governor and Senate in Arizona, buys condo in Davenport

Kari Lake bought a condo in Davenport in November under a family trust, according to Scott County property records.

Lake, a Republican who ran for governor and U.S. Senate in Arizona with the backing of President Donald Trump, grew up in Donahue and graduated from North Scott High School and the University of Iowa.

Property records show a trust in her family's name with a Phoenix address bought a two-bedroom, one-bathroom condo in a brick building in Davenport for $58,500 in November.

Lake confirmed the purchase to the Des Moines Register, telling the newspaper that "expanding our roots there means being closer to family and closer to the values that shaped me."

Lake did not immediately return messages from the Quad-City Times.

The purchase has renewed speculation that she may consider a run for political office in Iowa.

Races for the U.S. Senate and governor without incumbents running are underway in Iowa. The filing deadline for candidates to run for state or federal office in the June primary is March 13.

Iowa's senior U.S. senator, Chuck Grassley, who is 92, will be up for election in 2028.

After a career in TV news, Lake ran for governor of Arizona in 2022 and for U.S. Senate in Arizona in 2024 as the Republican nominee.

She lost both contests, but became a national political figure as a champion of Trump and his claims of widespread election fraud causing the 2020 election to be "stolen."

Lake currently is part of the Trump administration as a special adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the government media network Voice of America, which originally started as a way to combat Nazi propaganda abroad. Trump designated her to oversee the dismantling of Voice of America. This past fall, the administration attempted to terminate the contractors and employees of the network.

Between 1991 and 1994, Lake worked for two news stations in the Quad Cities, according to Quad-City Times archives. Lake began at KWQC as an intern and later joined WHBF in Rock Island as a daily reporter and weekend weather reporter.

Lake held an event in Bettendorf in 2023, where she encouraged Iowa Republicans to ask Republicans running for president about their stances on election integrity. She said she was able to visit family and take in Quad Cities staples like Whitey's.

Chuck Brockmann, chair of the Scott County Republicans, said he knew nothing about whether Lake was considering a run for office in Iowa, but said "it'd be good if she did.“