{"id":114670,"date":"2021-01-31T22:45:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T03:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=114670"},"modified":"2021-01-31T22:57:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T03:57:02","slug":"arizona-governor-after-censure-vote-state-party-should-focus-on-winning-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-governor-after-censure-vote-state-party-should-focus-on-winning-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Governor After Censure Vote: State Party Should \u2018Focus On Winning Races\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-governor-after-censure-vote-state-party-should-focus-on-winning-races%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=114670&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Governor Doug Ducey (R) shot back at the Arizona Republican Party on Sunday morning, a week after he was censured over pandemic policies he enacted back in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is an action of very little consequence,\u201d Ducey told <a href=\"https:\/\/azgovernor.gov\/governor\/video\/cnn-governor-doug-ducey-interview-state-union\">CNN<\/a> host Dana Bash during an appearance on \u201cState of the Union\u201d on Sunday morning. \u201cThe party in Arizona has had a long history of discontent. This is just the latest example. I think that the state party chairman should focus on winning races. That should be a top priority.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although Arizona had been represented in the Senate by two Republicans since the mid 1990s, Republicans recently lost control of both seats. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) took over the seat formerly held by Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) in 2019, and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) recently replaced Senator Martha McSally (R-AZ) to finish out the final two years in the late Senator John McCain&#8217;s term.<\/p>\n<p>Ducey\u2019s response came after Bash asked him about a political cartoon Cindy McCain, who was also censured by the Arizona GOP in the same meeting, posted to Twitter. The cartoon showed an elephant, dressed in a tuxedo and labeled as the state Republican party, censuring Ducey, McCain, and Flake for exhibiting a \u201cgross display of basic integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Enough said! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mco6lhfWjy\">pic.twitter.com\/mco6lhfWjy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cindy McCain (@cindymccain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cindymccain\/status\/1353787970264862720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI believe I was in good company in that cartoon, and I also want to say I worked incredibly hard to deliver the state for Donald Trump, and Red, up through election day, and then after election day, of course, once all the ballots were certified <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> all fifteen counties, the vote had been audited and determined accurate <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I had very little choice but to do the right thing, follow the law and the Constitution,\u201d said Ducey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last week, the Arizona Republican Party <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/arizona-gop-votes-to-censure-republican-governor-doug-ducey\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">voted to censure Ducey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for emergency rules he enacted amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The state Republican party, which also censured McCain and Flake, said Ducey\u2019s rules restricted the \u201cpersonal liberties\u201d of Arizona residents and forced them to comply with \u201cunconstitutional edicts.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As The New York Times <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/23\/us\/politics\/arizona-censure-flake-mccain-ducey.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Ducey\u2019s emergency rules provided him with an avenue to enact COVID-19 restrictions on businesses without the consent of lawmakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Flake was censured for condemning the Republican Party, rejecting populism, and embracing globalism over &#8220;the interests of the American people,&#8221; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/arizona\/2021\/01\/24\/arizona-gop-reelects-kelli-ward-censures-cindy-mccain-jeff-flake-doug-ducey\/6679473002\/\">Arizona Central<\/a>. McCain was censured for supporting &#8220;globalist policies and candidates,&#8221; for condemning President Donald Trump when he was in office, and for supporting the growth of the administrative states, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/23\/us\/politics\/arizona-censure-flake-mccain-ducey.html\">according<\/a> to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the same meeting, Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward was re-elected for another term in the state party leadership. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/arizona-gop-censures-cindy-mccain-doug-ducey-re-elects-kelli-ward-as-chair-11611453988\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Ward narrowly won the leadership vote after she played a video of Trump asking party officials to vote for her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Doug Ducey (R) shot back at the Arizona Republican Party on Sunday morning, a week after he was censured over pandemic policies he enacted back in 2020. \u201cThis is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892343,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3645,4472,4033,4173,3772,4474],"class_list":["post-114670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-after","tag-arizona","tag-censure","tag-governor","tag-state","tag-vote"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}