transparency, and just overall poor planning and no use of any best practices that you would see in a close election audit. stephen rickert s report shows there s at least one reasonable republican in a leadership position in arizona. do you think most republicans buy into the big lie or are they just staying silent? well, i think that for the most part, they are either on the side of the big lie or they re staying silent because they have too often seen the political consequences. and that s really unfortunate because i think it really is our democracy at stake here. and that s one of the reasons that i m running for governor, is because we need real leaders who are going to stand up for what s right regardless of the political consequences. we need to put the partisanship aside and work on real issues. rehashing the 2020 election isn t one of those issues. compounding the travesty of
a fake audit of the 2020 election results in maricopa county will release the final report on their work. ahead of that, arizona s top two election officials have released prebuttal reports showing just how fake and fraudulent that gop audit is. and their claims are backed up with evidence. the same can t be said for what we ve seen so far from cyber ninjas, the group conducting that fake audit. maricopa county recorder stephen rickert, who is a republican, wrote in his report, quote, i believe in the simple, straightforward data-backed explanation that trump lost many republican voters in affluent areas. accordingly i know joe biden won maricopa county. and arizona secretary of state katy hobbs, a democrat, wrote in her report, quote, this exercise has been a partisan political review of the 2020 general election for president and u.s. senator in maricopa county.