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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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No, it has not been proven beyond any doubt that the 2020 election was stolen. In fact, it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that while there were the usual shenanigans, there is no fraud shown sufficient that it would have changed the result in any state, per former Attorney General William Barr.
The people who disputed the 2020 election lost all statewide elections in the five battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin except for Ron Johnson who was running against a Bernie Sanders supporter and Walker who is going into a runoff.
I disliked Trump before the 2020 election and voted for a Democrat for President for the first time in 48 years. But the Trump Big Lie and his attempted coup sealed my opposition to Trump.
That doesn’t mean they were wrong. The voters could have chosen poorly, as they seem likely to do more and more.
Sealed you as a Democrat.
I voted a straight Republican ticket (with the one exception of Tom Horne) in the last election, except if the Republican was a Trump Endorsed Election Disputer. All of those Republicans won.
Well, you can lose with Trump or win with DeSantis.
You helped turned Arizona blue. I kept my state red. Cheers.
Since winning isn’t one of your principles, why do you use it to threaten me with supporting what you want? It won’t work on me. 2024 is irrelevant. 2020 and 2022 saw to that . There will be no soft landing and no going back to what was before. That is the outcome of empowering authoritarians. I can have your type of principles, too, and vote against anyone who attacked Trump. That is how the game is played, isn’t it.
It’s late in the game for this comment; but I hate to say, I expected this outcome. I hoped for the best but prepared for the worst.
Republicans as a team (and I voted a straight R ticket) can’t seem to get out of their own way. Wait, did I say “team”? That seems to be the problem, actually.
Setting aside unanswered election questions, Republicans seem unable to unify around a vision and mission like the ideologues on the left who continue to crystalize a pure “gospel.” They rally around it and use it as a lever for strategy. I think this leads them to be dishonest and at times, wicked, having an ends-justifies-means ethic.
But with signals of lack of teamsmanship like Trump calling DeSantis names, Kari setting herself against McCainites–we should *expect* to lose elections. We should expect not to be attractive to the squishy middle voters.
Election shenanigans aside, we have not had winners in the pure sense. A winning posture is totally achievable, and so are beating-the-cheat results if we got our act together.
I get the sense that Republican candidates are of a few types: (1) A species of Republican with superior policies and plans but an inferior strength that seems more brittle than durable, and tends to be mouthy at the wrong times; (2) Republicans who play the game and say the right words but seem to have lost track of their spine; (3) outright pretenders who game the public.
The cognitive dissonance is strong in the making of that statement.
I agree with you with one small caveat.
The Republicans who ran as conservatives but did not involve themselves with disputing the 2020 election by and large won. DeSantis won by almost 20 points. Rubio won by 16 points. Abbott won his third term. Republicans who are focused on the future won. Republicans who were focused on the past such as the 2020 election lost, or at least had their margin of victory decreased by 5%.
DeSantis and Rubio do not support your argument. They won because of DeSantis performance as governor and it had nothing to do with your theory.
Twenty points in Florida. So? Does anyone think DeSantis can win Oregon, California, New York, Massachusetts? I’ve sent him money already and will likely send more, but he won’t have a lock on the nation-wide vote. It will be close in a few states with a lot of Electoral College votes. And with gutless, quarter-wit repubs denying security issues at the ballot box, it will be even harder than it should be.
But he sometimes acts like it was him alone who did it.
Gary is in a position to avoid the consequences of his voting.
I don’t think that DeSantis can will in Oregon, California, New York or Massachusetts, or Illinois or Hawaii for that matter. But he doesn’t have to win there. He just needs to win in the five states that Trump won in 2016 and lost in 2020, namely, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. If he can do that, DeSantis wins the presidency.
I would so much more have preferred that the second place candidates who were barely beaten in the Republican primary had been on the general election ballot, and had been elected like the fifth highest statewide Republican, Kimberly Yee, was by a 55.7% landslide.
Surprised by the Midterm Election Results? Take a Look at the Data – American Thinker
Dream on.
EDIT: Hat tip to Hoyacon for this. Pretty much puts a bullet in the idea that Trump was the only problem:
What 2022 Midterms Exit Polling Tells Us | City Journal (city-journal.org)
Gary, do you still disagree with the Supreme Court of Wisconsin that outdoor dropboxes are illegal there and that votes cast in such cannot be legally counted? If so, why do you disagree? Do you need an intro to the issue? I made it simple here.
Good luck getting an answer to that.
Mr. “In a court of law you have to tell the whole truth” suddenly will grow silent.
Just wait.
He must win the screwed up states??
The only hope a Republican who supports the MAGA agenda is that The Turtle assumes room temperature before 2024 and that none of his supporters are able to take his place.
Arguably states that were deliberately screwed up to allow for election fraud.
This stood out in the latter:
This in the former:
Put them together and you see further disintegration of the country. We will not accept corrupt elections and their outcomes.
You like lousy Third World ballot controls and Zuckerberg style electioneering. Swell.
I’ve said this a million times. You can’t get anyone to explain in plain English how he moved the ball forward for conservatives and libertarians.
The McCain machine is unconstructive at best. It’s a lot worse than that really.-
I love this.
This is just a fact. Gary is terrible at responding to the points he makes. He’s not entitled to any reciprocity.
It’s called ballot harvesting from the disinterested and infirmed.
There is no excuse for supporting Democrats partly because of this un-American activity.
The fact is you never talk about conservative governance in this era. The only thing you have in your head is GOP boiler plate from decades ago.