The Oath Keeper hoping to run Arizona’s elections is getting outspent almost 50-to-1 and makes few press campaign appearances. He still might pull it off.
A few weeks after the primary, Finchem drove up alone outside a meeting of hundreds of party activists, dropped off some gear, and left without speaking.in Glendale with Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, to which he hadn’t been invited to speak. “I expected to be a spectator, not on the stage,” Finchem said in remarks that lasted less than a minute.
As secretary of state, Finchem could refuse to certify vote counting machines in use across the state, forcing counties to conduct hand counts that experts say would take longer and be less accurate. He could also rewrite the guidelines on where to place voting locations, side with litigants trying to restrict ballot access and work with allies in the state legislature to curtail early voting and voting by mail.
“I’m not trying to re-litigate 2020,” Finchem said at a September campaign stop at an IHOP in Phoenix, addressing a tea party meeting of 17 people. “I’m trying to avoid the train wreck that 2020 was in 2024.” Fann did not sign onto the letter. Farnsworth did not respond to requests for comment. But Fann did commission a “forensic” review, as Finchem was demanding, which ultimatelyFinchem traveled to Washington for the Jan. 6 rally, saying he was hoping to hand-deliver to then-Vice President Mike Pence evidence of fraud in Arizona to urge him to reject the state’s electoral votes. Finchem was photographed in the mob outside the Capitol but said he was not involved in the violence.
Arizona state senator who was censured in March after calling for public executions in a speech to a White nationalist convention. The consultant, Spence Rogers, did not respond to a request for comment.
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