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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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To: KevinB

No, they weren’t successful in overthrowing Trumps first term. He served his entire term. It was the following election which they successfully subverted.


21 posted on 08/07/2022 9:52:16 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

The party that brought us “Landslide Lyndon” (LBJ) and the fraud-riddled Kennedy election, as well as Al Franken, Christine Gregoire, Parris Glendening, etc. is now calling us election deniers. That’s rich.


22 posted on 08/07/2022 9:52:49 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Bus No. 2525)
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To: dragnet2

If The Atlantic is freaking out, you know this is good for our country. 😁


23 posted on 08/07/2022 9:53:05 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: dragnet2

Global whining from Laurene Powell Jobs.

Mass invasion was never the status quo in Arizona as they seem to think in Nueva York and Palo Alto.

The Americans in Arizona are simply planning to end the invasion, and that’s the reason the Trump ticket was nominated.


24 posted on 08/07/2022 9:53:45 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: dragnet2

“ deniers”
Notice they brought back that term. It worked damn when these same people marginalized anyone who spoke the truth amour the climate BS.


25 posted on 08/07/2022 9:54:32 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: jimjohn
“Stop the Steal” candidates are running—and winning—all over the country... You think that would tell them something.

We'll see in November. That's where the rubber will meet the road.

Either a massive MAGA victory. Or a massive catastrophe.

26 posted on 08/07/2022 9:56:55 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Pollard

That’s the narrative that they live by and it is 180 degrees from reality.


27 posted on 08/07/2022 9:57:15 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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To: MattMusson
Right on!

Now I'm "The Radical Fringe". I voted for Kari Lake, Mark Finchem, and Abraham Hamadeh.

I did not vote for Blake Masters though. I had some big tech money reservations.
However, now that he has won the Senate primary, I will be voting for him
come Nov. over the flat out lying Mark Kelly.

28 posted on 08/07/2022 9:57:18 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: dragnet2

You would think the Atlantic would know what “radical” means. Guess not.


29 posted on 08/07/2022 9:58:14 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: dragnet2

They hobbled his entire first term, ably assisted by Assistant Democrats.


30 posted on 08/07/2022 9:58:57 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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To: dragnet2

More of what Steve Jobs’s widow thinks of us peons.


31 posted on 08/07/2022 9:59:09 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: gibsonguy

“ deniers”

That is anyone who does blindly believe the mainstream narrative on any topic.

I deny everything they say—all of it.


32 posted on 08/07/2022 10:01:18 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
They hobbled his entire first term, ably assisted by Assistant Democrats.

And they weren't completely successful, were they?


33 posted on 08/07/2022 10:01:48 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

The radical fringe runs The Atlantic.


34 posted on 08/07/2022 10:02:24 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: dragnet2
Radical fringe:

1.5% inflation
3.8% national unemployment rate
Gas at $1.89 a gallon
Milk at $1.99 a gallon
Store shelves full of everything you need or want
Rogue nations not invading their weaker neighbors
Southern border sealed tight
Mean tweets

35 posted on 08/07/2022 10:02:29 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: dragnet2
I think America has a better future in store.

I'm looking forward to when the The Atlantic Magazine's building burns to the ground during an Antifa-BLM Riot.

36 posted on 08/07/2022 10:02:35 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Oh yeah, mean tweets! They don't like his tone much either.


37 posted on 08/07/2022 10:05:41 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

One of the most basic tenets of American law is the notion of “the fruit of the poisoned tree”. Any legal ruling that is found through later evidence to be based on an illegal or unconstitutional process must be reversed. This is the legal process that will be used to decertify the 2020 presidential election.


38 posted on 08/07/2022 10:05:45 AM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: dragnet2

One day, when the steal is far enough in the past so that the election thieves feel safe, they will proudly admit what they did.


39 posted on 08/07/2022 10:05:48 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: dragnet2

No, it is astonishing how much he got done with the immense opposition from the Democrats, the Republicans and the bureaucracy.

Imagine if he had not been kneecapped by his own party what he could have done.......


40 posted on 08/07/2022 10:06:21 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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