The Arizona GOP elected state Sen. Jake Hoffman. “fake voter” is accused last week, and as a member of the Republican National Committee’s national committee, was accused of working to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in Arizona.
Hoffman, who was indicted Wednesday along with 17 others including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, was named to the RNC along with former state Rep. Liz Harris, who was expelled for related reasons. Casting doubt on Biden’s 2020 Arizona victory.
“I am humbled and honored to be selected as the next RNC National Committee member for Arizona” Hoffman wrote on Saturday evening On X.
“The road to saving America runs through our great state, and the RNC plays an important role every day in supporting and empowering the Republican people fighting against the Democratic Fascists,” Hoffman added.
On January 5, 2021, just days before becoming a state representative, Hoffman sent a letter urging Vice President Mike Pence to delay Arizona’s voter count and to “clarify the Arizona Legislature as to which voter rolls are correct. and accurate.” Hoffman himself was one of 11 “alternative voters.”
“These defendants defrauded the citizens of Arizona,” Arizona Attorney General Chris Mayes, a Democrat, said in a video released Wednesday announcing the charges against Hoffman and others.
“The defendants believed that the fraudulent votes cast for Trump and Pence would encourage Vice President Pence to reject the votes of certified Biden-Harris voters, regardless of the outcome of any legal challenge,” it said.
Along with Hoffman, the Arizona GOP also tapped former state Rep. Liz Harris as a national committee member. Harris was fired from the Legislature a year ago after he invited an election denier to testify about unsubstantiated allegations at a televised legislative hearing on the election.
Jacqueline Breger, an insurance agent called by Harris to testify, alleged without evidence that a Mexican drug cartel bribed Gov. Kathy Hobbs and Republican House Speaker Ben Thome, and that bribery and infiltration were used to influence the 2020 and 2022 results. elections.
In a controversial hearing on February 23, 2023, Breger claimed that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is “in control”[s]” were government agencies and “were part of money laundering activities”.
An Arizona ethics panel report found that Harris “engaged in reckless conduct” and “undermined the institutional integrity of the Pata” by inviting Breger. 46 of the 60 members of the Republican-controlled House voted to remove Harris after the ethics panel report was released.
“These are not just election denialists,” Arizona Republican strategist Barrett said of Marson, Hoffman and Harris. “They are the leaders in the whole experiment of election denial.”
Marson said he believes Hoffman and Harris’ new gigs are indicative of the Arizona GOP’s upheaval in recent years.
“I think it shows that both electoral denial and the loyalty of electoral denial is now the Republican Party in Arizona,” he said.
The Arizona GOP did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the selections of Hoffman and Harris.