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« on: October 22, 2021, 08:55:19 PM »

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Just when it seemed Arizona Republicans couldn’t make more of a spectacle, they found another way.

As the party hardens around its fealty to former President Donald Trump, the GOP is filling up its midterm ballot with a roster of conspiracy theorists and extremists that could threaten the party’s prospects in a state that’s drifted leftward in recent elections.

The latest of those candidates is Ron Watkins, a celebrity in the QAnon conspiracy world suspected of being Q, who announced his plans to run for Congress last week.

It isn’t just that Watkins embraces the baseless claim that the November election was stolen. It’s that an entire ticket is running on that falsehood now. The state’s congressional delegation features Rep. Paul Gosar, who spoke earlier this year at a conference organized by a white nationalist, and Rep. Andy Biggs, who falsely maintains “we don’t know” who won the presidential election in Arizona.

State Rep. Mark Finchem, one of the chief proponents of the discredited post-election ballot review in Arizona, has been endorsed by Trump in his bid for secretary of state. And Kari Lake, the former TV anchor who has become a frontrunner for governor, still insists Trump carried the state and said recently that she would not have certified the 2020 election.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/20/arizona-gop-fringe-516322
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« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2021, 12:07:11 PM »

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Just when it seemed Arizona Republicans couldn’t make more of a spectacle, they found another way.

As the party hardens around its fealty to former President Donald Trump, the GOP is filling up its midterm ballot with a roster of conspiracy theorists and extremists that could threaten the party’s prospects in a state that’s drifted leftward in recent elections.

The latest of those candidates is Ron Watkins, a celebrity in the QAnon conspiracy world suspected of being Q, who announced his plans to run for Congress last week.

It isn’t just that Watkins embraces the baseless claim that the November election was stolen. It’s that an entire ticket is running on that falsehood now. The state’s congressional delegation features Rep. Paul Gosar, who spoke earlier this year at a conference organized by a white nationalist, and Rep. Andy Biggs, who falsely maintains “we don’t know” who won the presidential election in Arizona.

State Rep. Mark Finchem, one of the chief proponents of the discredited post-election ballot review in Arizona, has been endorsed by Trump in his bid for secretary of state. And Kari Lake, the former TV anchor who has become a frontrunner for governor, still insists Trump carried the state and said recently that she would not have certified the 2020 election.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/20/arizona-gop-fringe-516322

They’re ing stupid. I was being trolled by some Arizona Republicans on fb a couple of years ago and it was just a steady flow of memes, autism, oppositional psychopathy, and racism. They even planted a face of my step father on a dog turd.
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« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2021, 01:34:15 PM »

Much of this doesn’t really make the AZ GOP any different from the national GOP or other swing state Republican state parties, but I agree that Lake shouldn’t get anywhere near the nomination for any statewide office. I still doubt that Mark Kelly will benefit this much from the AZ GOP's 'ideologically rightward/Trumpian/authoritarian' turn, though.

Obligatory reminder that this is the state that elected Jan Brewer by double digits in 2010, so I don’t think 'cringe' is exactly some groundbreaking, radically new development for the AZ GOP.
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« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2021, 02:15:20 PM »

Much of this doesn’t really make the AZ GOP any different from the national GOP or other swing state Republican state parties, but I agree that Lake shouldn’t get anywhere near the nomination for any statewide office. I still doubt that Mark Kelly will benefit this much from the AZ GOP's 'ideologically rightward/Trumpian/authoritarian' turn, though.

Obligatory reminder that this is the state that elected Jan Brewer by double digits in 2010, so I don’t think 'cringe' is exactly some groundbreaking, radically new development for the AZ GOP.

Jan Brewer was an establishment Republican who knew how to play to the base effectively. This is different, this is the inmates running the asylum at this point.

Considering Arizona is already voting Democratic now, it is rather clear that enough people have reached their tipping point regarding this madness and it just depends on whether "new majority" in AZ turns out or not.
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« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2021, 02:23:04 PM »

That's a clear strategy to win back Maricopa County suburbs into the Republican column.
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« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2021, 07:05:22 PM »

Much like the Texas GOP it appears that they are intent on beating every dead horse of a conspiracy theory possible as their main governing objective.
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« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2021, 07:48:43 PM »

Word "Arizona" can be removed from title.
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« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2021, 11:19:38 PM »

Word "Arizona" can be removed from title.

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