Finchem, Mark W
On Election Day, G.O.P. Raise Doubts about Arizona Elections
Republican candidates and conservative media organizations seized on reports of voting issues in Arizona on Tuesday to re-up their case that the state’s elections are broken and in need of reform, even as state and county officials said the complaints were exaggerated. “We’ve got irregularities all over the state,” Mark Finchem, who won the Republican […]
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How Influential Election Deniers Have Fueled a Fight to Control Elections
Key figures in the effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election have thrown their weight behind a slate of Republican candidates for secretary of state across the country, injecting specious theories about voting machines, foreign hacking and voter fraud into campaigns that will determine who controls elections in several battleground states. The America First slate […]
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In Arizona, a Swing State Swings to the Far Right
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. — Kari Lake has a strategy to get elected in 2022. Keep talking about 2020. Minutes into her pitch at the Cochise County Republican headquarters in the suburbs of southern Arizona, Ms. Lake zeroed in on the presidential election 18 months ago, calling it “crooked” and “corrupt.” She claimed nearly a dozen […]
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Legal Effort Expands to Disqualify Republicans as ‘Insurrectionists’
The lawyers bringing the new suits believe they have a stronger case to show that the elected officials in question are insurrectionists. In the run-up to Jan. 6, Mr. Gosar and Mr. Biggs repeatedly posted the falsehood that Mr. Trump had won the election. Mr. Gosar organized some of the earliest rallies to “Stop the […]
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The Traveling Trump Show Comes to South Texas
HIDALGO, Texas — Organizers of the three-day We Stand America gathering were clearly frustrated on Day Two: In an arena built to accommodate thousands of spectators, only a few hundred people had shown up. On a stage in the South Texas border city of Hidalgo, they blamed the lackluster crowd on liberal media and activists, […]
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