{"id":1565149,"date":"2022-07-21T17:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T21:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1565149"},"modified":"2022-07-21T17:49:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T21:49:47","slug":"political-gunfight-between-trump-and-pence-in-arizonas-us-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/political-gunfight-between-trump-and-pence-in-arizonas-us-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Gunfight Between Trump and Pence in Arizona\u2019s US Senate Race"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fpolitical-gunfight-between-trump-and-pence-in-arizonas-us-senate-race%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=1565149&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>Like two gunslingers from an old Western, Arizona may not be big enough\u2014politically speaking\u2014for former president Donald Trump and his former vice president Mike Pence.<\/p>\n<p>Both plan to wage dueling rallies in the Grand Canyon State on July 22, just 10 days ahead of the August mid-term primary.<\/p>\n<p>Trump will speak at a \u201cSave America\u201d event in Prescott to support a list of his campaign endorsements, including Arizona gubernatorial candidate front-runner Kari Lake and U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters, who also leads in the polls.<\/p>\n<p>In Phoenix, 100 miles away, Pence will hold a competing rally for Lake\u2019s opponent Karrin Taylor Robson, who\u00a0has the endorsement of both Pence\u00a0and outgoing Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey.<\/p>\n<p>  Former president Donald Trump at a \u201cSave America\u201d rally in Anchorage, Alaska, on July 9, 2022. Trump is due in Arizona for a rally for his chosen candidates, including\u00a0Kari Lake who is running for governor, in the Republican primary on July 22. (Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Trump and Pence, however, stand far apart as they \u201cbattle for the soul\u201d of the Republican Party in Arizona, one of five key battleground states where Trump lost his bid for re-election in 2020 by a slim margin.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two years after the election, Trump holds firm in his belief that the election was stolen by Democrats using organized ballot harvesting and electronic tampering.<\/p>\n<p>Pence has rejected that claim as false.<\/p>\n<p> Trump\u2019s Clout <\/p>\n<p>The resulting partisan rift\u2014Trump\u2019s clout versus Pence\u2019s doubt\u2014has split the two erstwhile Republican friends and allies and served as a litmus test for their political endorsements in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Lake and Masters haven\u2019t wavered in their conviction the election was rife with cheating\u2014\u201delection fraud denialism,\u201d their opponents call it.<\/p>\n<p>Though Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, has publicly stated there was no election fraud, observers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like two gunslingers from an old Western, Arizona may not be big enough\u2014politically speaking\u2014for former president Donald Trump and his former vice president Mike Pence. Both plan to wage dueling rallies in the Grand Canyon State on July 22, just 10 days ahead of the August mid-term primary. 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