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Phoenix’s NBC affiliate reports:
After a tight race, State Sen. Kelly Townsend has conceded to her opponent, Sen. Wendy Rogers [photo].
But Townsend said it came with a steep price tag. “It took $1,732,200.27 to beat me,” Townsend said in a post on Twitter.
The two had been running in the Republican primary for District 7 State Senator. According to the Secretary of State website, Rogers had pulled ahead with an 18 percent lead over Townsend.
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Townsend is a QAnon nutbag who last appeared on JMG when she called for literal vigilantes to guard ballot drop boxes.
Redistricting forced Townsend into the same race as “proud Oath Keeper” and QAnon extremist Wendy Rogers, who was recently censured by fellow lawmakers after attending a convention of neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
Rogers, who is fond of posing with machine guns, has said that all recent mass shootings and demonstrations by the Patriot Front are “gun grabber” undercover operations by the FBI.
The two squared off after redistricting following the 2020 census put them in the same district. But now, it seems the district will go to Wendy Rogers.
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