The Arizona GOP has tapped state Sen. Jake Hoffman, a prominent Freedom Caucus member of the legislature, for a position with the Republican National Committee. This comes less than a week after Hoffman’s indictment on multiple felony charges for his part in a “fake elector” scheme connected to the 2020 election.
An Arizona grand jury indicted Hoffman and 17 others for their part in the massive scheme that sent lists of “alternate electors” from seven states to the National Archives after the 2020 election, according to the Arizona Mirror. The plan was to use those fraudulent documents to shift the states’ Electoral College votes from Joe Biden to Donald Trump.
The Arizona GOP did not respond to a CNN inquiry about why they chose one of two state senators charged in this scheme to represent the party at the national level. Maybe it’s because of Hoffman’s important efforts on behalf of the Arizona Freedom Caucus, like trying to keep Satan off of public property.
Whatever the reason, the winner here is the MAGA faction of election deniers. Along with a relentless campaign to harass Republicans who dared to certify the actual results of the 2020 election, the extremist election deniers have been diligently working to take control of Arizona’s GOP apparatus since 2020. While the state’s voters have continued to reject many of these extremists, the national GOP leaders seem to have resigned themselves to supporting election deniers.
Hoffman and his co conspirators have been under fire since the forged documents appeared. The grand jury indictment targeting Hoffman also included fellow Arizona Freedom Caucus member and state sen. Anthony Kern, as well as former Arizona Republican Party Executive Director Greg Safsten.
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Here's one way to avoid dealing with election results you don't like: just wipe them from the record books. It's not Orwell—it's Arizona, and we're talking all about it on this week's episode of "The Downballot." This fall, voters have the chance to deny new terms to two conservative Supreme Court justices, but a Republican amendment would retroactively declare those elections null and void—and all but eliminate the system Arizona has used to evaluate judges for 50 years. We're going to guess voters won't like this one bit … if it even makes it to the ballot in the first place.
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