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The Radical Fringe That Just Went Mainstream in Arizona
The Atlantic ^ | 8/5/2022 | Elaine Godfrey

Posted on 08/07/2022 9:40:10 AM PDT by dragnet2

Arizona Republicans are nominating an entire cast of characters who argue not only that Donald Trump won the election in 2020, but also that the state’s results should be decertified—a process for which there is no legal basis.

These Trump-endorsed candidates—Kari Lake for governor, Mark Finchem for secretary of state, Abraham Hamadeh for attorney general, Blake Masters for senator—all won their respective primaries this week and are now one election away from political power.

“Stop the Steal” candidates are running—and winning—all over the country. But Arizona concentrates a lot of them within a single geographic area—like an ant farm of election deniers.

Lake might prove the most significant of these candidates. Lake’s lead over her top Republican opponent, Karrin Taylor Robson, had grown to nearly 3 percent when the gubernatorial primary race was finally called in her favor on Thursday night.

Before becoming an enthusiastic proponent of Trump’s election lies, Lake was a local TV-news anchor, making her a household name in Arizona and giving her something that many political candidates lack: confidence in front of the camera. Like Trump, Lake has a difficult-to-describe magnetism with Republican-base voters; they simply cannot get enough of her.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: elainegodfrey; electionfraud2020; fakenews; hamadeh; karilake; lake; masters; radicaljournalist; stopthesteal; theatlantic
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Election deniers? The Democrats are suggesting there was no election fraud in Arizona and many other states?

This from the Democrat party, who we all know attempted to criminally undermine and compromise and overthrow a presidential candidate, and then a sitting president.

Nowadays few are buying what the Democrats are peddling

1 posted on 08/07/2022 9:40:10 AM PDT by dragnet2
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2 posted on 08/07/2022 9:41:06 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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You ain’t seen nothing yet.


3 posted on 08/07/2022 9:41:48 AM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind bweek.lows too much)
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The Atlantic is full meltdown mode.


4 posted on 08/07/2022 9:42:08 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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They are afraid, very afraid.


5 posted on 08/07/2022 9:42:28 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Another demonrat presstitute that needs a box of cheese


6 posted on 08/07/2022 9:42:54 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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Dear democrats, you wanted a revolution? Well this is what it looks like.

MAGA


7 posted on 08/07/2022 9:43:09 AM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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“Stop the Steal” candidates are running—and winning—all over the country...

You think that would tell them something.


8 posted on 08/07/2022 9:43:59 AM PDT by jimjohn (We're at war, people. Start acting like it.)
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“But Arizona concentrates a lot of them within a single geographic area—like an ant farm of election deniers.”

This is how they think of all of us. To them, we’re nothing more than ants in an ant farm.


9 posted on 08/07/2022 9:44:01 AM PDT by Jay W
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“It’s a wonderful thing”, said Uncle Cletus.


10 posted on 08/07/2022 9:44:34 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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Arizona Republicans are nominating an entire cast of characters who argue not only that Donald Trump won the election in 2020, but also that the state’s results should be decertified—a process for which there is no legal basis.

Actually, decertification is a low bar outcome and the legal basis is easy. Meet, pass decertification resolution, then go home.

11 posted on 08/07/2022 9:45:09 AM PDT by FreeReign
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Lot of slobbering anger here.


12 posted on 08/07/2022 9:46:08 AM PDT by Luke21
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Patriotic Americans who don’t hate America are “radical fringe” while commies are not radical.


13 posted on 08/07/2022 9:46:09 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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And we people here in AZ are supposed to listen to some worthless rag like this?

Why? Explain..


14 posted on 08/07/2022 9:46:20 AM PDT by crz
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When the left loses its mind over something the right is doing, you know that what happened was a good thing.


15 posted on 08/07/2022 9:47:10 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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Good.

Let them be afraid.


16 posted on 08/07/2022 9:47:34 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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This from the Democrat party, who we all know attempted to criminally undermined, compromised and overthrow overthrew a presidential candidate, and then a sitting president.

Fixed.

17 posted on 08/07/2022 9:48:13 AM PDT by KevinB (''...and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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Elaine needs to mind her own forkin’ business and stop attacking and insulting AMERICANS. We don’t GAS what she thinks.


18 posted on 08/07/2022 9:48:38 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The House is supposed to represent the people, not the friggin' Federal government. )
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Radicals? Perhaps we should refer to the left as reactionaries.


19 posted on 08/07/2022 9:49:31 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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The radical fringe? Bwahahahahahahahahaha


20 posted on 08/07/2022 9:51:25 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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