Why is the Democratic General Manager of the 2020 General Assembly Candidate, Mr. Biden, Really, Really Heavier than the Democrat?
Going into the 2020 election, one of the questions was how Republican candidates would show up for that race and what their views were on the issue. Poll after poll has shown that a clear majority of Republicans falsely believe that President Joe Biden did not legitimately win the 2020 election.
Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise, then, that a lot of Republicans running for office believe this as well. Will any of those candidates end up running states where elections are close? For the most part, the answer is no. Donald Trump easily won the governor’s race in the states that most election deniers are from.
Lake has to remain competitive in order to win Arizona. Unlike many other battleground states, a plurality of Arizona voters are Republican. Democratic candidates need to win more Republican voters than GOP candidates if they are to win over independents. Lake can win if she loses independents and not as much as she did if she keeps less of her base.
Three polls out this past week, which were all well within the margin of error, illustrate the point well. A CBS News/YouGov poll had both Lake and Hobbs tied at 49%. Fox’s poll put Hobbs at 44% to Lake’s 43%. Lake was at 45% and Hobbs was at 45%.
Masters is an election denier on that issue. Indeed, that’s what makes Lake so unique. Almost all of the Republicans vying for the governorship of 2020 states have tried to raise doubts about the legitimacy of the most recent presidential election or have done so, even if they did not say it was stolen.
In fact, 2020 election denial has been a hallmark of losing gubernatorial campaigns in swing or blue states. In Maryland and Massachusetts, the current and departing governors of their states are getting blown out in the polls by their opponents, even though they are Republicans.
You might be tempted to think that Lake has a chance because voters in the Grand Canyon State believe the 2020 election was stolen. That doesn’t seem to be the case. An August Fox poll found that only 28% of voters were not at all confident that votes in the 2020 election were cast legitimately and counted fairly.
A mere 6 percent of voters were unsure if the election in Arizona would be fair and accurate in 2022, according to a poll. Another 23% are not very confident; the vast majority (71%) are confident it will be.
Implications of the 2020 Election Results for Democratic Sen. Lisa Lake, the Secretary of State of Arizona, and Nevada (Joe Marchant)
Lake only supports election results she agrees with, and had she been governor in 2020, she has said that she would have refused to certify Biden’s victory. Lake is telling people that she is prepared to use levers of government to overturn the will of the people.
A further look at the numbers indicates that the GOP could easily win the secretary of state races in Arizona (Mark Finchem) and in next-door Nevada (Joe Marchant). The Republicans running for both those posts have denied the results of the 2020 election as they aim to become the chief election officers in their given states.
It’s also the case that Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson voted against certifying the 2020 election and is a slight favorite to win another term against Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes. Likewise, Nevada’s Adam Laxalt has raised questions about the 2020 election and played a leading role in post-election legal efforts to reverse Biden’s victory in the state. He is in a close race with a democrat.
It will be a huge deal if there is another close presidential election in 2020, with Arizona once again competing for the White House.
Detection of Election Fraud by Democrats and Cyber Ninjas: The State of the Art and the Arizona Torss-Up
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She said that they are already detecting some stealing. A few hours before polls closed, she repeated the bogus claim of election fraud. Lake told reporters that they out-voted the fraud.
And in a precursor of what we might expect on election night, Lake claimed in the run-up to her August primary election that the vote was being rigged — again presenting no evidence.
A New York Times/Siena College poll showed she was in a dead heat with Lake. Nathan L. Gonzalez rates the race a toss-up.
The voters of Arizona have a clear choice in this election, between Lake and Hobbs who are both against election integrity.
The voters who poured into a Phoenix high school to hear from former President Barack Obama were looking to send a message of defiance Wednesday night.
They said they would not allow their voters to be intimidated by activists who turned up to vote in the upcoming election, and were determined to defeat Donald Trump’s hand-picked slate of election deniers.
In Arizona, where the next elections are most likely to affect, democratic institutions are most vulnerable, as shown by the warning from President Joe Biden that democracy is at stake.
There were sham partisan reviews conducted by Cyber Ninjas at the site of a number of audits after the 2020 election. The election results of a state in which Biden won by less than 11,000 votes will now be looked at by both parties in another possible battle. The top of the ticket are setting the tone.
Joann Rodriguez, a registered Democrat from Maricopa County, said it was scary that “radical Republicans” in her state were able to elevate candidates like Lake and Masters, who won their primaries in part by echoing Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election.
“What are they running on, aside from Trump’s talking points that the election was stolen?” Rodriguez said. She noted that “a lot of Trumpers” are still driving their trucks with Trump flags around her Glendale, Arizona, neighborhood. They are shown up at the election sites with firearms on their hips, for what reason? I mean, do they think that their intimidation tactics are going to work?”
Clean Elections USA: a ruling on the insurrectionists’ violation of the law in Arizona after Obama arrived to the Grand Canyon State
The secretary of state spoke about her record. She said that she stood for democracy when she did not comply with the insurrectionists who surround her home after certifying the 2020 election.
The state was on edge as Obama arrived in Arizona less than a week before the midterm election to campaign for fellow Democrats, including Sen. Mark Kelly, who is in a close race with Masters. The fact that the top statewide contests may be decided on a razor’s edge was the main reason why Obama came to the Grand Canyon State.
Biden, who was not invited to campaign in swing states but made his case from the opposite side of the country, argued that the fate of democracy was at stake.
The political climate and concern about the outcome of the election were what brought one registered Republican to an event with Obama. He said in an interview that he was voting against the Trump ticket, not the Democrats.
Greenberg said the 2020 election is fair and honest, and that it was not the Republican Party he was a part of. “That’s more like the American Nazi Party and I can’t put up with that – the lie.”
The complaints were filed by voters after activists took pictures of them and their license plates inspired by false conspiracy theories about people who stuffed ballot boxes. A federal judge issued a ruling in one of the cases on Tuesday barring members of a group known as Clean Elections USA – whose leader has falsely asserted the 2020 election was rigged – from openly carrying guns or wearing body armor within 250 feet of drop boxes.
Because of the ruling, the group’s members are no longer allowed to shout at voters who drop off their ballots or photograph voters at the drop boxes. The case that was brought by the League of Women Voters was weighed in by the Justice Department. The DOJ did not take sides in the case, but it was in a legal brief which said the right-wing group’s ballot security efforts were likely illegal and raised concerns of voter intimidation.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/03/politics/arizona-election-deniers-kari-lake-obama-midterms/index.html
What do people think about Obama? Michelle Gonzales, a registered Democrat, hopes to hear from a trusted leader in a state like Arizona
That dynamic is even more pronounced in a state like Arizona where Trump acolytes control the Republican Party and have censured figures like outgoing Republican Gov. Doug Ducey and former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake for what they said was insufficient loyalty to the former president.
Michelle Gonzales, a registered Democrat from Maricopa County, said she believes that people came to see Obama Wednesday night “so they could feel hopeful” about the democratic process amid all the noise.
She said that it was important to hear from someone who we trusts and believes in that we can be hopeful about the election. “You can see all these people out here. There are thousands of people waiting. I think people should believe in something better because we all should have the same morals and values as a human being.