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The Final Numbers from Arizona (13 Days After Election Edition)
You guys: On Monday, November 21, all counties in the state of Arizona finally finished counting the Election Day votes. And it only took them 13 days. In fact, two of the contests were so close that automatic recounts were triggered. Those won’t begin until after December 5 … another 14 days away.
Want to restore trust in the process, Arizona? Reform the bad election laws. For the last time, let’s go to the big board…
Governor
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| Kari Lake (R) | 49.7% | 1,270,774 |
| √ Katie Hobbs (D) | 50.3% | 1,287,890 |
U.S. Senator (race called for Sen. Kelly, Friday, Nov. 11)
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| Blake Masters (R) | 46.5% | 1,190,643 |
| √ Mark Kelly (D) | 51.4% | 1,315,771 |
Secretary of State (race called for Adrian Fontes, Friday, Nov. 11)
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Finchem (R) | 47.6% | 1,200,411 |
| √ Adrian Fontes (D) | 52.4% | 1,320,618 |
Attorney General
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| Abe Hamadeh (R) | 50.0% | 1,254,102 |
| * Kris Mayes (D) | 50.0% | 1,254,612 |
Treasurer (race called for Kimberly Yee, Saturday, Nov. 12)
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| √ Kimberly Yee (R) | 55.7% | 1,390,135 |
| Martin Quezada (D) | 44.3% | 1,107,036 |
Superintendent of Public Instruction
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| * Tom Horne (R) | 50.2% | 1,255,977 |
| Kathy Hoffman (D) | 49.8% | 1,247,009 |
None of the percentages shifted over the past week. Of course, these numbers are unofficial until certified on December 5. But we’re not out of the weeds yet!
An automatic recount is triggered when opposing candidates finish within 0.5 percent of the total votes. This applies to two races: Attorney General and Superintendent of Public Instruction. In the first, Kris Mayes (D) defeated Abe Hamadeh (R) by a mere 510 votes. In the second, Tom Horne (R) defeated incumbent Kathy Hoffman (D) by 8,968 votes.
Also, Arizona’s current Attorney General, Mark Brnovich (R), has demanded that Maricopa County officials provide a report on the tabulation machine problems on Election Day. By November 28, the county must detail the specific problems related to the printers at each polling location and how poll workers were trained.
Please note that your humble author sat next to Mark Brnovich in government class at Shadow Mountain High School. We would pass National Review issues back and forth, and drive our liberal teacher crazy with our anti-communist tirades. At the time, I worked as a highly acclaimed bag boy at Safeway. One afternoon, after we annoyed the teacher in class, he came into the store and bought a 12-pack of Meister Brau (a very, very cheap beer). After that, we called him “Meister Brau”; he didn’t like that either.
P.S. I worked with AG candidate Hamadeh at the Goldwater Institute, and AG candidate Mayes was my editor at Arizona State’s student newspaper. Knowing me is apparently a job requirement.
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Hissy fit voters are not serious voters. They are more of a joke when liberty and prosperity are on the line.
The hissy fit voters are to blame.
Another thing the McCains poisoned.
Conservation won jack squat.
Republicans lost most critical races. Your strategy is for losers.
You Republicans are done in Arizona.
The law isn’t as much an embarrassment as the hissy fit voters.
If they voted to be left alone, they will have a rude awakening when the Dems consolidate their power.
Marxism isn’t a lesser evil than mean tweets.
Why would you pass on Trump to elect a Marxist?
Sounds like you are saying Arizona voters vote on feelings not facts.
Trump or a Marxist. Chose wisely.
Freedom isn’t free. If people vote for Dems, the party ushering in Marxism, then they don’t deserve freedom.
Good grief. Another six years of her perfidy is coming. Alaskans are as bad as Arizonans.
Reports say that The Turtle spent $7+M to defeat Tshibaka. Pulled money from Bolduc and Masters to keep Murkowski around. The Alaska seat would have been in GOP hands if Tshibaka had won. She is a Republican as well. Just not a McConnell fan.
But let’s blame Trump, not the treachery within the party.
My goodness. I am now labeled as a Marxist sympathizer. And people objected which I called Election Disputers “Election Deniers.”
Here are the facts. If you nominate Trump, or someone who is a Trump Big Lie Election Disputer, you are giving away 5+% of the vote. If you are in a ruby red district, or state, you can afford to do that. But if you live in a competative district or state, that 5+% can be the difference between winning and losing.
Arizona Tresurer Kimberly Yee was pro-Trump in 2020 and she seconded his nomination. While she was not an overt Election Disputer, she expressed Republican nostrums about Election Integrity. She is Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Lower Taxes, Less Regulations, Anti-ESG Republican. Trump did not endorse in her race, as it was the fifth highest statewide race. She won 55.7% fo the vote. The top four statewide Republicans who Trump endorsed who were overt Election Disputers, all got less than 50.00% of the vote.
If you live in a R+10 district or state, you can afford to be a Trump Big Lie Election Disputer. But if your state or district is R+5 or less, you will likely lose if you are a Trump Big Lie Election Disputer.
There are plenty of other choices than Trump (or DJTJ). DeSantis is great as are Abbott, Youngkin, and Tim Scott. All of them supported Trump in 2016 and 2020. All of them opposed his second impeachment. All of them repeat Republican nostrums about Election Integrity. But none of them is an Election Disputer, so they aren’t writing off 5+% of the vote.
If you fail to vote for “election deniers,” you let the Marxist Dems win seats and even a house in Congress.
I guess that’s OK with Gary.
The Voting Morons – American Thinker
The moral of the story is that unless you live in a R+10 state or district, don’t nominate Election Disputers. Otherwise, the college educated suburban types will refuse to vote for the “Republican” or will find the Democrat to be the lesser of two evils.
In MI-3 and WA-3, Election Disputers won the Republican Primaries, only to lose to Democrats in the general election. We really could have used those two additional votes in Congress, but Trump had to oppose them in the primary.
Come on, Gary. “College educated suburban types” are far more motivated by abortion. And that puts them in the Dimocrat column to start with. You’re just running out in front of the crowd that’s already marching and yelling “Follow me!” again. They don’t even notice you there.
A “moderate” Democrat is often the lesser of two evils compared to a Election Disputer.
I am an American, a Conservative and a Republican in that order.
You sound like a CD stuck on repeat. Vaguely amusing, but also annoying after a while.
Also, you are dense enough to believe there is such a thing as a “moderate” Democrat. That might have been true fifty years ago, but you can’t see that is no longer the case.
You are really a sad example for the rest of us. We — in your failed eyesight — are election deniers. You are a full-on Reality Denier.
Still, enjoy your time with your mother.
We were told again and again since Reagan to shut up and vote for Bushes, Dole, McCain, Romney and we held our noses and pulled that lever. But now such loyalty is passé.
The purpose of the party leader is to re-elect all current members. That included Murkowski.
if Trump had not interfered in the Senate primaries, Ducey would have won in Arizona, and Sununu would have won in New Hampshire.
Thank you Donald Trump!
Well, Arizona’s Kimberly Yee is staunchly Pro-Life, and she won a 55.7% landslide while the four statewide Republicans all could not break 50.0% due to being election disputers.
We owe Trump more than people like you can imagine. He revealed the Uniparty, and members such as you cannot forgive him. The rest of us are eternally grateful. As we said in Kentucky horse country: He’s my horse even if he never wins another race.
BTW, your announced purpose is pure BS.
You still don’t understand how little State Treasurer has to do with damn near everything?
I’ve read that she tried to run for governor but got no traction at all.