In 2020, Arizona turned blue in a U.S. presidential election for the first time since 1996. Now-President Joe Biden won the state over former President Donald Trump, who'd repeatedly slammed the late Senator John McCain, one of Arizona's most beloved figures.
Subsequently, the state of Arizona became a major target of Trump's lies that the 2020 election was "stolen" from him by Democrats engaging in widespread voter fraud. Trump accused election officials of "finding" enough votes for Biden to win (most people just call this "counting").
In response to Trump's election fantasies, Arizona's conservative legislature forced a partisan "audit" of Maricopa County, Arizona's votes. Biden's victory wasn't only further confirmed, but it actually widened.
Never one to accept reality or defeat, the former President is now demanding the election results be revoked and himself declared the winner—all in the name of supposed election fairness.
NEW!\n\nPresident Donald J. Trump releases new statement on damning findings in Pima County, Arizona\n\n"Either a new Election should immediately take place or the past Election should be decertified and the Republican candidate declared the winner."pic.twitter.com/ACNvcA70bE— Liz Harrington (@Liz Harrington) 1634327561
The statement read in part:
"Either a new Election should immediately take place or the past Election should be decertified and the Republican candidate declared the winner."
The reasoning for Trump's absurd demand was supposed irregularities in mail-in voting implemented by Democrats to "steal" the election—claims that have long been debunked.
Oh Lord. We are back with a Shiva special pointing out that Republicans voted more on election day than by mail and pretending that early ballot drop offs aren't a thing and calling it anomalous.\n\nDoesn't this get tiring after a while?https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1449100939286261761\u00a0\u2026— The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru (@The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru) 1634333941
This isn't even moving the goal post it's starting over at the other end of the pitch.
— The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru (@Garrett_Archer) October 15, 2021
The demand wasn't taken seriously.
Let's be clear -- there have been absolutely zero findings of election problems in Pima County last year. There have been some allegations that have not verified in any way. Neither of these things is remotely possible anyway.https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1449100939286261761\u00a0\u2026— Jeremy Duda (@Jeremy Duda) 1634330923
Pima County conducted the most transparent and accessible election in our county's history. President Biden won Pima County.https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1449100939286261761\u00a0\u2026— Pima County Democratic Party (@Pima County Democratic Party) 1634333911
lol wuthttps://twitter.com/reallizusa/status/1449100939286261761\u00a0\u2026— John Phipps: I get the best DMs (@John Phipps: I get the best DMs) 1634414758
Honestly, nobody cares!! https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1449100939286261761\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/XhuxlSCazc— Inspector Know It All (@Inspector Know It All) 1634331236
Check out this insanityhttps://twitter.com/reallizusa/status/1449100939286261761\u00a0\u2026— James Scott lives on land stolen from Muscogee N (@James Scott lives on land stolen from Muscogee N) 1634357493
Some said Trump's continued fixation on election delusions is bringing down the GOP.
Key words being either a new election should happen or the whole thing should be thrown out. While this cannot be done, this harkens back to what I was talking about: \n\nThis whole election audit thing is not for the GOP, it\u2019s for Trump. And he\u2019s not satisfied.https://twitter.com/reallizusa/status/1449100939286261761\u00a0\u2026— Adam Bass (@Adam Bass) 1634334072
how\u2019re things going for the GOP? Here ya gohttps://twitter.com/reallizusa/status/1449100939286261761\u00a0\u2026— Ammar Moussa (@Ammar Moussa) 1634327719
At some point the GOP needs to get their head out of their asshttps://twitter.com/reallizusa/status/1449100939286261761\u00a0\u2026— (((Matt Boo-xer)))\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83e\udd41 (@(((Matt Boo-xer)))\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83e\udd41) 1634335411
Good luck with that.
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