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Sheriff s have the power and the duty to make their own determinations about which laws to enforce and how to enforce them. it is not just enforcing laws and following the constitution, it is also about resisting laws. nullifying, refusing to enforce laws that a sheriff has deemed somehow unconstitutional all by themselves. while not new, this ideology is, like so many other 90 things in america, getting traction. when the sandy hook elementary school massacre prompted a push for gun control measures in congress, sheriff mack compiled a list of nearly 500 sheriffs who said that they had a vowed to uphold and defend the constitution against quote, obamas unconstitutional gun control measures, unquote. one of the shares by the way it was joe arpaio, who four years later was then granted president donald trump s first presidential pardon for criminal contempt of court for stuff he did here in maricopa
Year. the outcome of that race will help determine control of the senate. blake masters is one of the most ardent election deniers and trump supporters in the country, even in a state that is full of election deniers and trump supporters. according to the washington post, all but one of the pocan candidates running for office here, this election year, is an election denier. that includes all three of the republican party the gubernatorial candidate kari lake, who is like a ph.d. in election lying. the state secretary of state nominee mark finchem. and the attorney general nominee abe holiday. he s running for office for the first time, he also continues to deny that joe biden legitimately won the 2020 election, something that was proved over and over again. sometimes referencing the false and debunked claims made in a conspiracy theory film in 2000 mules, which i guarantee you you don t have enough time in your life to watch. beyond that, he s also explicitly saying that he would
Numbers right now, republicans are about ten points behind. nobody knows exactly why. some people think it s because republicans are now moving towards just voting on election day, which is exactly the opposite of the way it used to be. voting by mail in the state was established by republicans. republican started. eight republicans built it and promote of. it that s one of the ways they sit in power for so long here. we have a 2070 election season. we don t have won election day in arizona, like so many western states do. it works really really while that the republicans used very very well for very long. time i think what we also have, though, is that sort of change of commerce version of a republican who wants stability in a government. they want to predict what happens, next but at least the things that are going to move forward so they are just dragging everything back to 2020, and constantly hand wringing about what happened in the past. nobody wants that, it s bad for busi
It is not even a complicated message by the republican statewide office runners. it is very, very simple. don trump is the boss, the elections were fake, i will let it happen again. they are saying the quiet lie out loud in arizona. they are not even hiding it. whether you re talking about kari lake, these candidates have said they are not willing to concede the election. they are saying we are not as i said, my opponent wants to decertify 2020. my opponent also wants to eliminate a vote by mayor. which was invented by republicans in the state. it was invented by republicans in 1992. it is the way 90% of arizonans vote. no one has ever found anything wrong with. it no one has ever found anything wrong with it. and yet, they continue to tell the big lie, they continue to sow distrust which is