Trump blows up the Arizona GOP on his way out
Trump blows up the Arizona GOP on his way out
The craziness from the state Republican Party
its pretty embarrassing, said a former top Republican official.
The Trump era did more damage to the Republican Party in Arizona than almost anywhere else. Over the past two years, Republicans lost both Senate seats. In November, the state flipped Democratic in a presidential race for the first time since 1996. The GOP state party chair is currently at war with the governor.
President Donald Trumps fingerprints are on all of it, yet the state party will likely pass a resolution next week to officially support & thank the president. Itll also vote on measures to censure three prominent Republicans who were deemed insufficiently beholden to Trump: Gov. Doug Ducey, former Sen. Jeff Flake and Cindy McCain, the wife of the late senator.
The adulation is an expression of GOP grassroots loyalty to Trump, but its also a portrait of a party thats run aground in service to him.
His defeat has triggered attempts to adopt an even harder pro-Trump line, raising questions about the partys ability to compete in an increasingly diverse state thats edging leftward.
The craziness from the state Republican Party
its pretty embarrassing, said Kirk Adams, a former Republican state House speaker and former chief of staff to Ducey. We have been fed a steady diet of conspiracy theories and stolen election rhetoric and, really, QAnon theories from the state Republican Party since before the election, but certainly after.
The fallout has been swift. Several thousand Arizona Republicans have abandoned the party since the U.S. Capitol riot that Trump helped to incite, with the majority of the defectors re-registering without a designated party, according to state elections officials.
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