Tag Archives: Arizona

The Washington Post reports: Two Republican members of a county election board in southern Arizona were indicted by a state grand jury this week for allegedly flouting last year’s deadline to formally accept the results of the November 2022 midterm election. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) on Wednesday announced the felony indictments of Cochise County supervisors Peggy Judd and …

The Guardian reports: In the year since two elected officials in rural Arizona tried to hand-count ballots then refused to certify an election, the consequences have started to trickle in. Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby, the two Republican supervisors in Cochise county who led these efforts, were recently subpoenaed as part of an investigation by the state’s attorney general. The …

The Arizona Mirror reports: Failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake had her request to appeal her election lawsuit directly to the Arizona Supreme Court denied Wednesday. The former television anchor had previously requested that the state’s highest court take up her case, after she had lost her second trial in Maricopa County Superior Court in May. In that case, she …

Politico reports: Senate Republicans are rolling out a provocative new strategy as they try to boost the GOP’s chances in Arizona next year: propping up incumbent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. NRSC operatives have been fretting about polls that have shown Sinema, an independent, pulling in nearly twice as many Republican voters as Democrats in a three-way race. So in a bid …

The Messenger reports: A Noble Predictive Insights poll conducted via online panel October 25-31 among 1,010 registered voters found Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego leading a hypothetical three-way Senate race with 39% support, followed by 2022 GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake at 33% and the incumbent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema at 29%. Sinema has yet to say whether or not she will …

“The victim has the parents, the victim has the teachers, the victim has friends, the victim has relatives that he or she is close to. So, it doesn’t need a priest to be able to go to court and testify. The seal of confession is never to be broken, and priests will go to jail for it.” – Rep. Quang …

The Washington Post reports: In Arizona, the state GOP chairman has been begging the Republican National Committee for a financial bailout. Michigan party officials have gotten into physical fights as their finances have dipped into the red. And in Georgia, the state party is in a standoff with the Republican governor and saddled with legal fees for alternate electors put …

Phoenix’s NBC affiliate reports: Jacob Chansley, who may be better known as the “QAnon Shaman,” has filed a statement of interest to run for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District in Congress. Chansley stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding. He was originally sentenced in Nov. 2021 to 41 months in prison …

Axios reports: After Ohio’s vote Tuesday to protect abortion rights, Democrats are rushing to get similar measures on the ballot next year in key states such as Arizona, Nevada and Florida — partly to boost President Biden and down-ballot Democrats. Voters now have explicitly endorsed abortion rights via ballot initiatives in seven states since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. …

Arizona Central reports: A Michigan lawyer steeped in conspiracy theories helped write the Cyber Ninjas’ final report to the Arizona Senate on its 2020 election “audit” and pushed to include false claims of fraud. Stefanie Lambert, who led efforts to access voting machines in four states, wanted Cyber Ninjas’ CEO Doug Logan to say the review found evidence that fake …

Mediaite reports: Kari Lake, the failed 2022 GOP candidate for governor of Arizona and 2024 U.S. Senate candidate, quickly endorsed Blake Masters’s GOP primary opponent after Masters announced a run for Congress on Thursday. A few hours later, Lake sent out a press release endorsing Masters’s main Republican opponent Abe Hamadeh. Hamaden ran for attorney general in 2022, while Masters …

The Washington Post reports: Blake Masters, a Republican venture capitalist who lost an expensive bid to represent Arizona in the U.S. Senate last year, announced on Thursday that he’s running for a seat in the House of Representatives. Masters, an ally of former president Donald Trump, is running to replace Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) in the state’s 8th Congressional District, …

The Messenger reports: As she weighs a reelection bid, Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has garnered support from big-money donors who have given thousands of dollars to Republican committees over the past few election cycles. Sinema raised $197,400 from GOP donors who have given thousands of dollars over the years to Republican candidates and causes. Many of these donors have given …

Phoenix’s NBC affiliate reports: Republican Abe Hamadeh will be running for a U.S. House of Representatives seat, the failed Attorney General candidate announced on X Tuesday evening. In his X post, Hamadeh said he is going into the race with support from “key Trump allies including Ambassador Ric Grenell and Kari Lake.” The announcement comes after news that Congresswoman Debbie …

The Arizona Republic reports: Arizona State University police say they are investigating an incident in which a queer faculty member was confronted and injured on the school’s campus. An official with the conservative group Turning Point USA said late Thursday night that two of their “crew members” were involved in the altercation. Security footage shows two people — a “reporter” …

The New York Times reports: Kari Lake, a former TV news anchor who refashioned herself as an ally and protégé of Donald J. Trump, officially announced she was running for the Senate in Arizona on Tuesday night, offering a dark vision of America and pitching herself as a fighter ready to take on the media and the left. Ms. Lake, …

Reuters reports: Arizona Republican Kari Lake, a far-right ally of Donald Trump, on Tuesday is expected to announce her candidacy for her party’s U.S. Senate nomination, in what could be a highly competitive three-way general election race in November 2024. Arizona is already one of the most politically competitive U.S. states but its Senate race became all the more so …

Arizona Central reports: Kari Lake didn’t wait to officially enter the U.S. Senate race to begin debating U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego. The two clashed on social media while flying back to Arizona, with the conversation spilling into public view at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Their clash on Thursday continued in a videotaped encounter with Gallego at the airport. The …

The Arizona Republic reports: Fox News stirred up conspiracy theories online Thursday with a report about state Treasurer Kimberly Yee being named acting governor after what the conservative cable news network called the “mysterious disappearance of Gov. Katie Hobbs.” The erroneous news report, later changed by Fox, followed a false rumor that went viral on social media earlier this week …

CNBC reports: Kari Lake, the Donald Trump acolyte who unsuccessfully ran for Arizona governor in 2022, will launch a candidacy for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate on October 10. The Arizona contest, in which Sen. Krysten Sinema is expected to seek re-election, could determine by a three-way race which party controls the Senate. Lake, who narrowly lost the …