{"id":1570458,"date":"2022-07-25T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1570458"},"modified":"2022-07-25T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:52:19","slug":"arizona-us-house-races-heat-up-ahead-of-aug-2-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-us-house-races-heat-up-ahead-of-aug-2-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona US House Races Heat Up Ahead of Aug. 2 Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Farizona-us-house-races-heat-up-ahead-of-aug-2-primary%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=1570458&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>Whether Trump-endorsed Congressman David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) can move past his legal and ethical troubles with the federal government remains to be seen as he seeks re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives in the Arizona primary next month.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Schweikert\u2019s campaign agreed to pay a $125,000 fine to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for campaign finance violations.<\/p>\n<p>He was fined $50,000 in July 2020 by the bipartisan House Ethics Committee after admitting to 11 rules violations, including misuse of campaign funds.<\/p>\n<p>Schweikert is now battling a lawsuit by an Arizona man who claims Schweikert is running a \u201chomophobic\u201d ad campaign against his main opponent Elijah Norton.<\/p>\n<p>Schweikert has served as the U.S. representative for Arizona congressional Districts 5 and 6 since 2011 and seeks to represent the newly redrawn Republican-leaning Congressional District 1. He will face two challengers in the Aug. 2 primary.<\/p>\n<p> A \u2018Tireless Advocate\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>In June, Schweikert joined a list of Trump-endorsed America First candidates, with the former president touting Schweikert as a \u201ctireless advocate\u201d for Arizona and \u201cPrincipled Conservative\u201d on social media.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2021, the conservative group Freedom Works named Schweikert its member of the month, calling him \u201cthe gold standard when it comes to principled conservative leadership on Capitol Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norton has made Schweikert\u2019s ethical rules lapses a central issue in his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe citizens of Arizona deserve better than a representative mired in ethics violations more committed to self-preservation than doing the people\u2019s business,\u201d Norton said on his website.<\/p>\n<p>Norton told The Epoch Times he is running for office because \u201cthe people of the Northeast Valley deserve ethical and true conservative leadership restored in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Norton, an Arizona businessman with no known endorsements, currently leads in fund-raising with over $5 million in campaign finances raised to date.<\/p>\n<p>Schweikert\u2019s campaign financial arm, Friends of David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether Trump-endorsed Congressman David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) can move past his legal and ethical troubles with the federal government remains to be seen as he seeks re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives in the Arizona primary next month. In January, Schweikert\u2019s campaign agreed to pay a $125,000 fine to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570458","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\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}