In a Thursday night interview that AZCentral called “cantankerous, contentious and combative,” Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake spent almost 30 minutes arguing with, insulting and snarling at veteran Arizona Horizons host Ted Simons. Lake, who has reportedly fallen far behind her opponent Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), didn’t do herself any favors, reported AZCentral’s Laurie Roberts. “Yet there she was on Thursday evening, swinging her rhetorical sledgehammer with giddy abandon as an audience likely filled with McCain moderates and independents looked on,” she wrote. Want more breaking …