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Arizona Republicans choose Trump favorite Gina Swoboda as party chair

PHOENIX (AP) — Gina Swoboda, an election activist endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has been chosen as the next chair of the Arizona Republican Party, a leadership post that puts her center stage in the battleground state for November’s presidential election. Fox10 television in Phoenix reported that Swoboda garnered 67[...]

Hamadeh asks judge to order race that he lost be re-run

Unsuccessful so far in his bid to overturn his loss in the race for attorney general, Abe Hamadeh has opened up a new legal front -- with some new legal theories. And what he wants is a judge to order that the race he lost to Democrat Kris Mayes be re-run in Maricopa County. All this is based on Hamadeh's contention that Marico[...]

Lesko’s decision opens door for fresh faces in LD27

Correction: This article has been corrected to state U.S. Reps Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar had a complaint filed against them requesting an investigation of their involvement with the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.   Two GOP state legislators are eying to join what will be a crowded Republican primary race for U.S. Rep. Debbie L[...]

Kern, Senate, Ortiz, Kolodin, attorneys, judges

Likely Lake entry into Arizona Senate race sets up ‘Super Bowl’ of elections

Kari Lake’s expected entrance today into the already-crowded field seeking to unseat U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., sets the stage for what one analyst said has the potential to be “the greatest race in United States Senate history.” Lake, the failed 2022 Republican nominee for governor, has not officially announced her [...]

Lake will launch US Senate campaign in Arizona

PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Kari Lake, a Donald Trump ally who has refused to acknowledge her loss in last year's race for Arizona governor, will soon launch her campaign for the U.S. Senate seat held by independent Kyrsten Sinema, a senior adviser said Thursday. Lake's entrance in one of next year's top Senate contests likely com[...]

Texas man who threatened poll workers and Arizona officials is sentenced to 3 1/2 years

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who advocated for a mass shooting of poll workers and threatened two Arizona officials and their children has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison, prosecutors said Friday. Frederick Francis Goltz, 52, of Lubbock, pleaded guilty earlier this year to interstate threatening communicatio[...]

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Open, targeted House seats drive fundraising as numerous hopefuls line up

Arizona is expected to be a battleground for presidential and Senate races in 2024, but it’s looking as if the state could also have some high-profile House races. With a year until the primary, candidates for just three seats have already raised more than $7.6 million, according to Federal Election Commission reports, as an ope[...]

Schweikert, Congress, election

Pinal County elections director quits, says she wasn't protected

FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — The elections director of Pinal County has resigned after less than a year in the job, saying county supervisors had tried to politicize elections in the small jurisdiction east of Phoenix. Pinal County confirmed Geraldine Roll's resignation in a brief note posted online Tuesday, with County Manager Leo Le[...]

Crews appointed to fill LD26 House vacancy 

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors filled the vacancy in the state House of Representatives after appointing Quantá Crews to represent Legislative District 26.  The board appointed Crews Monday following a recommendation from county Supervisor Steve Gallardo. Gallardo represents the area that encompasses LD26 for the cou[...]

Judge declines motion by defendants to dismiss count in second day of Lake trial

[caption id="attachment_262712" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Kari Lake leaves after former President Donald Trump spoke at his Mar-a-Lago estate on April 4, 2023, in Palm Beach, Fla., after Trump was arraigned earlier in the day in New York City. On May 18 in Mesa, during the second day of the trial in Lake's election challenge, [...]

Attorney for Lake claims he has 'bombshell' evidence tabulators were contaminated

[caption id="attachment_258814" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Kari Lake, who at this time was an Arizona Republican candidate for governor, waves to the media as she walks into a voting precinct to vote with her family on Election Day in Phoenix on Nov. 8, 2022. An attorney for failed gubernatorial hopeful Lake told a judge on May[...]

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