The Arizona GOP has tapped state Sen. Jake Hoffman, a distinguished Freedom Caucus member of the legislature, for a place with the Republican Nationwide Committee. This comes lower than every week after Hoffman’s indictment on a number of felony fees for his half in a “faux elector” scheme related to the 2020 election.
An Arizona grand jury indicted Hoffman and 17 others for his or her half within the huge scheme that despatched lists of “alternate electors” from seven states to the Nationwide Archives after the 2020 election, based on the Arizona Mirror. The plan was to make use of these fraudulent paperwork to shift the states’ Electoral School votes from Joe Biden to Donald Trump.
The Arizona GOP didn’t reply to a CNN inquiry about why they selected one in all two state senators charged on this scheme to signify the occasion on the nationwide stage. Possibly it’s due to Hoffman’s vital efforts on behalf of the Arizona Freedom Caucus, like attempting to preserve Devil off of public property.
Regardless of the purpose, the winner right here is the MAGA faction of election deniers. Together with a relentless marketing campaign to harass Republicans who dared to certify the precise outcomes of the 2020 election, the extremist election deniers have been diligently working to take management of Arizona’s GOP equipment since 2020. Whereas the state’s voters have continued to reject many of those extremists, the nationwide GOP leaders appear to have resigned themselves to supporting election deniers.
Hoffman and his co conspirators have been beneath fireplace for the reason that solid paperwork appeared. The grand jury indictment focusing on Hoffman additionally included fellow Arizona Freedom Caucus member and state sen. Anthony Kern, in addition to former Arizona Republican Occasion Govt Director Greg Safsten.
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This is one method to keep away from coping with election outcomes you do not like: simply wipe them from the report books. It isn’t Orwell—it is Arizona, and we’re speaking all about it on this week’s episode of “The Downballot.” This fall, voters have the prospect to disclaim new phrases to 2 conservative Supreme Court docket justices, however a Republican modification would retroactively declare these elections null and void—and all however eradicate the system Arizona has used to guage judges for 50 years. We will guess voters will not like this one bit … if it even makes it to the poll within the first place.