As Trump's Poll Numbers Rise, Arizona Democrats Are Getting Desperate

In 2020 President Trump “lost” Arizona by less than 11,000 votes.* Today, he is six points ahead of Joe Biden in the polls. To ensure a “win” for Biden this November, Arizona’s Democrat Attorney General, Kris Mayes, has created another lawfare case straight from George Orwell’s “1984.” Instead of indicting a ham sandwich, Mayes’ grand jury indicted 18 Americans with the goal of terrorizing anyone who dares question the 2024 presidential election should Democrats succeed in keeping Demented Biden in the White House in the same way they installed him in 2020.

With these lawfare indictments, Arizona becomes the fourth state where allies of President Trump have been charged with doing what both Democrats and Republicans have done for decades. The attorneys and alternate electors representing Democrat challenger Al Gore in 2000 were never indicted.

TERRORIZING ATTORNEYS, ELECTORS, REPUBLICANS

In the lead up to the 2024 presidential election, AG Mayes is weaponizing the attorney general’s office against those who questioned the balloting process in 2020 to ensure that no one questions a Biden “win” this year.

Four of the persecuted defendants were close allies of President Trump: His former chief of staff Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Esq., John Eastman, Esq. and Jenna Ellis, Esq. In a speech last week in Lansing, Michigan, Eastman said “I had zero communications with the electors in Arizona. I had zero involvement with the election challenges in Arizona.”

The alternate electors facing charges are all active Republicans in Arizona: Kelli Ward, the Arizona GOP chair; State Senator Jake Hoffman; Tyler Bowyer, an executive with Turning Point USA who serves on the Republican National Committee; State Senator Anthony Kern who is currently a candidate in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District; Greg Safsten, a former executive director of the Arizona Republican Party; energy industry executive James Lamon; Robert Montgomery, chairman of the Cochise County Republican Committee; Samuel Moorhead, a Republican precinct committee member in Gila County; Nancy Cottle, first vice president of the Arizona Federation of Republican Women; Loraine Pellegrino, past president of the Ahwatukee Republican Women; and Michael Ward, an osteopathic physician who is married to Kelli Ward.

At this point, the other three defendants have not been named.^ Trump himself was not charged in the latest lawfare indictment, but was referred to as an unindicted co-conspirator.

ALTERNATE ELECTORS ALLOWED SINCE 1876**

The 11 people who had been nominated to be Arizona’s Republican electors met in Phoenix on Dec. 14, 2020, to sign a certificate saying they were “duly elected and qualified” electors and claiming that Trump carried the state. The document was later sent to Congress and the National Archives,^^ where it was ignored.

Biden won Arizona by less than 11,000 votes. There were eight lawsuits filed in the state challenging Biden’s “victory,” one of whom was filed by the 11 Republicans. Each case was dismissed for technical errors or lack of standing. None of the cases were tried and, therefore, the evidence of election fraud was never adjudicated.

The Republicans’ lawsuit asked a judge to de-certify the results that gave Biden his victory in Arizona and block the state from sending them to the Electoral College. In dismissing the case, U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa, who was appointed by Obama, said the plaintiffs lacked legal standing, waited too long to bring their case and “failed to provide the court with factual support for their extraordinary claims.” The judge could not have honestly made that claim since she refused to hold a trial and look at the evidence. Lacked standing? Any registered voter in Arizona who actually cast a ballot had standing. Waited too long? The case was filed two weeks after the election and long before the certification deadline.

Mayes’ predecessor, Republican Mark Brnovich, conducted an investigation of the 2020 election, but chose not to indict anyone.

*Biden’s margin of “victory” over Trump was 0.3%, marking the first time a Democrat presidential candidate carried Arizona since Bill Clinton in 1996, and only the second time since Harry S. Truman's 1948 victory. As Secretary of State, the current governor, Katie Hobbs, set up a system of unsecured, unmanned drop boxes leading up to the 2020 election, and allowed massive ballot harvesting by Democrat-funded NGOs.

^Two of the unnamed defendants are believed to be Mike Roman, who was Trump’s director of Election Day operations, and Christina Bobb, a lawyer who worked with Rudy Giuliani.

**At the end of election day, no clear winner emerged because the outcomes in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana were unclear. Both parties claimed victory in those states. Republicans and Democrats rushed to those three states to watch and try to influence the counting of the votes. The returning boards determined which votes to count and which to throw out, if they deemed them fraudulent. The returning boards in all three states argued that fraud, intimidation, and violence in certain districts invalidated votes, and they threw out enough Democrat votes for Hayes to win. All three returning boards awarded their states’ electoral votes to Hayes. These Republicans were not arrested nor charged with any crime for their “election interference” efforts.

^^Just weeks later the National Archives, in collusion with Biden’s DOJ and the White House, will begin their own lawfare against President Trump over “classified” documents being stored in Mar-A-Lago.