arizona county, where he says he is no longer being harassed. as for the election conspiracy theories he shared in 2020 do you regret sharing those facebook posts? yes. the 2020 chapter should be closed. and we should move forward. we have to believe the process of the certifications in each state of the secretaries of state. so you think voters should trust the 2024 election? yes. even if trump loses? yes. and jim, look, despite bob bartal meyer s doubts about the 2020 election he did ultimately do the right thing in arizona, where he didn t give in to the whims of the conspiracy theorists and extremists. and as an election official do things that would have actually undermined the security and integrity of the vote. of course the concern is, though, that there will be other election officials who have been put into their positions over the past few years and months,
facebook posts falsely claiming trump legally won by a landslide. sometimes it s hard for me to accept that there wasn t some errors made in the election. but i m not sure that it was to the extent that it would have changed the election. reporter: for some of the election conspiracy theorists who forced lisa out of her job, bob s doubts about the 2020 election made him an ideal candidate to replace her. to maybe some of the people, your critics were saying, this is an election skeptic, an extremist, a conspiracy theory. denier. denier. while some people would have viewed that as a disqualification correct. there s people who are probably saying, this is our guy. correct. he knows what s up. he knows the election s been stolen. so, when you got there, some people were probably happy to see you coming. yes. but then something happened that you never expected.
a aspirational solution. so, if you re not going to go with an aspirational solution, these people are going to press the anger button and he s going to win the iowa caucus. i do want to ask you about this, anthony. i mean, he s also on the campaign trail talking about jimmy carter today. let s listen to this. i always say, jimmy carter s the happiest man alive right now. and it s good because he s somewhat elderly, right? somewhat. my wife went to the funeral of rosalynn two months ago. it s a beautiful funeral. but jimmy carter is a happy man right now because people are considering, compared to biden, his presidency to be a brilliant presidency. anthony, i guess trump is trying to make this comparison between biden and jimmy carter. but why invoke the carters and the passing of rosalynn carter in this fashion? it sounds like he is mocking jimmy carter, who we should
believe donald trump really won the 2020 election. tonight donie o sullivan reports on what s happened to one arizona county election official who once believed conspiracy theories but then discovered he wasn t extreme enough. you should be in jail. you should be killed. you should be fired. to just people screaming into the phone. i mean, just and 24/7. reporter: lisa ma rah was direction of elections in arizona for six years. we had to hire an armed security company because the people that worked in the office processing ballots were afraid somebody was going to come break the door down and take ballots. reporter: lisa, a life long republican, had enough of the intimidation and threats. and last year, she quit. your successor is a man named bob reporter: this is bob. the election itself just didn t seem like it had been in the past elections. there was just something off. back in 2020, he shared these
you weren t extreme enough. no. they found out from the beginning that i was going to follow the laws and procedures. and they weren t happy about that. some were not. your actions, sir, are not that of a conservative. if i had the authority, i d fire you. reporter: at public meetings in the county, some voerts who believe conspiracy theories about the election decided bob was not maga enough and began demanding he overhaul the entire voting system. to do away with the machines, do away with mail ballots. those are things that have to be changed legislatively. and it s not permissible legally for me to get away with all this stuff. i m sure you brain dead rinos and democrats can understand we the people don t want any machines or mail-in ballots. after just four months, bob quit. at my age, i don t need the i need less drama.