Arizona GOP Civil War Somehow Keeps Getting Weirder Kelly Weill © Provided by The Daily Beast Ross D Franklin/AP/Shutterstock
Protesters shared Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers’ home address on social media. They started a hashtag calling him a traitor. They traveled to his house, honking and shouting until the police came.
And these were members of his own party.
When Arizona, a longtime Republican stronghold, voted for President-elect Joe Biden in November, President Donald Trump’s most stalwart supporters cried foul. After the state’s Republican-led government certified Biden’s win, the Arizona Republican Party split along Trumpist lines, with Bowers and the state’s governor calling for sanity, and further-right members calling for war often against their party comrades.
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