The document the Republicans signed, obtained from the National Archives last year by the group American Oversight, overlooked that detail. By state statute, the only electors who mattered were those pledged to cast their votes for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, as they did Dec. Ducey had certified the election results in late November. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek, signed a document that was sent to Congress with a false avowal that they constituted Arizona’s official vote in the Electoral College.Īll 11 people were listed on the general election ballot as the would-be electors for Trump.īut Trump had lost Arizona. 14, 2020, Kern and 10 other Arizonans, including state GOP Chair Kelli Ward and Rep. 6, 2021, began yelling, “Trump! Trump! Trump!” as the former president’s helicopter descended to the festival grounds shortly after 5:30 p.m. “Can you feel the storm building?” Gosar asked.Īnthony Kern, a former state representative who’s running for state Senate and who was in Washington near the U.S. House members Debbie Lesko, Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar ripped Biden and exhorted the crowd to get ready for the next elections. The politicians who warmed up the crowd for Trump hammered home the points. Crowd members may have been Republicans, but they were firmly committed to one man, Donald Trump, and the idea that Biden stole the election from him. The crowd booed the news media, booed Republican Gov. Doug Ducey and booed election workers. Ray Stern 6:40 p.m.: Members of Congress, candidates cheer Trump, boo others She vowed to finish building Trump’s border wall in Arizona, sparking crowd members to chant, “Build that wall! Build that wall!” “We are being invaded, and China is pushing deadly fentanyl through Mexico,” said Lake, who then addressed Biden: “It’s going to stop with me … We do not need your protection, your permission to defend our state.” Constitution allows states to take action even without the federal government in times of invasion. Citizenship and Immigration Services official under Trump, who claimed that the “self-defense clause” in the U.S. It’s unclear exactly how she would do that without federal cooperation, but her comments echoed those at a news conference on border security on Tuesday by state lawmakers and Ken Cuccinelli, a former U.S. “To the people flooding across our border: When I’m governor, you will be arrested and sent back across the border.” She also called out migrants without papers. Her wide-ranging comments touched on COVID-19 mandates that she said “people are no longer willing to put up with.”Ĭlaiming she was up “30 points” or more in polls of voters, Lake said, “There will be no mandates and no lockdowns” with her as governor. She vowed to “close every single loophole that allows them to cheat,” though she didn’t give details. As did others, she called Trump “president” and slammed the 2020 election as “rotten to the core.” Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake began her speech echoing the theme of some of the other speakers, praising America under Trump and listing its problems under Biden. Kathy Tulumello 7 p.m.: Kari Lake vows no COVID-19 mandates, calls out migrants, Biden "Tonight's rally will serve as little more than a reminder of the chaos and extremism of today’s Republican Party, and why 81 million Americans rejected Donald Trump in 2020 to elect President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats who have led the fastest economic recovery in history, delivered a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to repair Arizona’s roads and bridges, gotten Americans vaccinated, and helped create over 6 million jobs.” “Let there be no mistake, the Republican Party has surrendered to Donald Trump’s stranglehold and fully embraced him no matter the cost to our democracy or Americans’ lives," it read in part.
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