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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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That too. But mostly, things like a state treasurer being “pro-life” is at least 10,000% irrelevant.
I understand that. She is the fifth highest race in the state after Senator, Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General. However the only difference between her and the Republican candidates for those offices is that they all disputed Biden’s Election victory to get Trump’s endorsement. So the distinction is revealing. She won a 55.7% landslide and they all lost.
Incidently, the most conservative Governor in the last 50 years was two term winner Doug Ducey. His position before being a two term Governor? Um, State Treasurer.
Compared to Kari Lake and Karrin Taylor Robson, that’s true. Of course, as the highest ranking statewide Republician today, that might be different in 2026.
In 2016, Arizona had a Republican Governor, and two Republican Senators. Now, that’s to Toxic Trump, Arizona has a Democrat Governor and two Democrat Senators. Thank you Donald Trump for destroying the Republican Brand and enticing Republicans to dispute Biden’s victory in 2020.
Where did you get that cockamamey rule? The purpose of the party is to elect the NOMINATED candidates. That’s what primaries are for. If an incumbent loses a primary, they are out. It’s the democratic process and that’s how it works. The party should have worked as one to elect Chewbacca and should have denounced the witch for running as an independent.
This is another example of corruption that apparently you can’t see.
The only difference between Kimberly Yee who won a 55.7% landslide and the top four statewide Republican candidates is that she did not dispute Biden’s 2020 election.
Henry Olsen of the Washington Post states at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/22/arizona-midterm-election-denial-fraud-myth/:
“The results from Arizona’s 1st Congressional District bear this out. The seat contains Scottsdale and other well-off, highly educated Phoenix suburbs. Its voters reelected GOP Rep. David Schweikert and gave [Kimberly] Yee more than 56 percent, as election analyst Drew Savicki reports. Yet they voted against all the other Republican statewide nominees, giving Democrats between 51 and 54 percent of the vote in every race. This is exactly what voters in these areas did in 2020, as Biden carried the seat with 50.1 percent. They will vote for a certain type of Republican, just not the uber-Trump backers they had on offer this year.
“The same pattern held nationally this year. Trump-endorsed statewide candidates such as Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker and Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz did poorly in the educated suburbs around their states’ major cities. Philip Wallach of the American Enterprise Institute estimates that Trump-backed candidates in competitive House races ran five points behind the level mere partisanship would predict. All of the defeated Trumpy Arizonans lost by less than five points.”
This is a fine example of why you don’t deserve to be taken seriously. McConnell pulled funding from Masters and spent $7+M dollars to get a particular GOPe member re-elected. Tshibaka is also a Republican, but the wrong type. She won’t kiss The Turtle’s . . . uh, ring. Yet to you, it’s all Trump.
I don’t know how many people are running around in AZ with their obsession with Trump untreated, so I can’t say and don’t care how much Trump may have hurt the candidates. McConnell definitely deserves some blame in Masters’ case.
Do you anything in the political sphere other than whine about Trump?
Right now, there is a beautiful sunset visible off my balcony, and a nice wine cooling to cellar temperature. I’m out.
Cheers.
Obsession with Trump! It’s a freakin’ pandemic: Jan 6th Staff Reportedly Upset With Liz Cheney Over Her Fixation With Donald Trump (thegatewaypundit.com)
I will vote as I please without regard to the silly sensibilities of others. I will not be extorted into voting against my wishes.
Exactly. Their power depends on us fearing their “or else” threats. Deny them any purchase and they will have no power over us.
Trump did not vote in those elections. Thank the hissy fit voters in those states.
Dems own your state.
Gary has some very odd cognitive dissonances. Such as, claiming he likes Trump’s policies but won’t vote for people who Trump endorses for at least in part having the same policies.
Does he ever think about what he’d actually get if those non-Trump-endorsed people he would vote for WON? I don’t see how.
He clearly has only first-level thinking going on, if even that.
He’s not bluffing. I get the schtick. This isn’t serious first principles stuff. I’m out.
I lived in Arizona for 30 years and I doubt many of the voters were thinking about “election deniers” when they voted.
Murkowski did not lose the primary. She was forwarded to the general election which was a ranked choice election.
Of course, Trump had some $100 million in money collected that he could have used here, or in New Hampshire or Arizona, but he didn’t want to spend it.
In 2016 Arizona had a Republican Governor and two Republican Senator. Now after the 2022 election, for the first time since 1950, Arizona will have a Democrat Governor and two Democrat Senators. (We will also have a Democrat Secretary of State, and a Democrat Attorney General too.)
Thank you Donald Trump.
I refused to vote for people who disputed the 2020 election results to be endorsed by Trump.
So why did the people who were “election deniers” (your term) all losing while a non-“election denier” (your term) was winning a 55.7% landslide?
Disputing the 2020 election caused these Trump Endorsed Republicans to lose.
Goes with the territory.
I dont understand why its even controversial. I think it’s been proven beyond any doubt that the 2020 election was stolen. The left even agrees with Donald Trump on this point.
The Hunter Biden laptop story was enough (by itself) to alter the outcome of the election. Remember that the election was decided by 40 000 votes in 3 states… Had the laptop story been covered fairly Donald Trump would have been elected.
This is the difference – we’re not asking for partisan support from the media – we dont expect campaign officials to be on conference calls to decide editorial content of the media. All we ask for is fairness.
Correlation does require causation.
My recollection is that you hated Trump long before “election denying” was a thing. So why did you hate Trump back then, huh? It’s a very convenient excuse, but just admit that it wasn’t the main reason for you.
As I said once before, it always seemed like petty jealousy to me, and it applies to most NTs. Look at Trump’s life. Made and lost and re-made fortunes. Lived large. Bedded more than his share of hot women. Married Melania. Elected president on his first try at politics. Not many people have had that much success. I suspect that depending on how your own life has gone you either admire or hate/resent him.
Instead of simply rejecting whatever precisely it is you’re rejecting, why not try refuting the evidence that persuaded me of my conclusions?
I doubt if they were thinking at all, just voting on feelings.
Why should he spend it?
Why are you thanking Trump when you voted that way… Can’t you own your own choices ? You helped your state go blue.
You chose Democrat leadership. Enjoy it.
Because they were supported by hissy fit voters. News flash. I’m denying from now on until things are fixed.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/23/maricopa-county-made-arizonas-elections-even-more-of-a-disaster-than-people-realize/
Gary, you just don’t get it. The country made a big mistake in 2020 and people have suffered since. 2022 was a test to see if people learned from their mistakes, a test to see which states are redeemable. The picture is becoming clearer.