{"id":1583723,"date":"2022-08-01T22:19:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T02:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1583723"},"modified":"2022-08-01T22:19:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T02:19:56","slug":"republican-candidates-make-last-minute-pitches-ahead-of-arizona-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-candidates-make-last-minute-pitches-ahead-of-arizona-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Candidates Make Last-Minute Pitches Ahead of Arizona Primary"},"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\">18<\/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%2Frepublican-candidates-make-last-minute-pitches-ahead-of-arizona-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=1583723&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>TEMPE, Ariz.\u2014Listening to their campaign rhetoric, you\u2019d think the race for Arizona governor came down to an epic struggle between \u201cgood and evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barbs were flying this past weekend between\u00a0current front-runner and former Obama Democrat turned Republican\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kari-lake\">Kari Lake<\/a> and \u201cEstablishment RINO\u201d (Republican In Name Only)\u00a0Karrin Taylor Robson, as both\u00a0pulled out all the rhetorical stops at final campaign events.<\/p>\n<p>On July 29, Robson held a Town Hall-style press conference at 21st Century Healthcare in Tempe along with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/01\/IMG_3242-1200x900.jpg\"><\/a> Over 200 America First supporters gathered at a campaign event for Trump-endorsed candidates in the Arizona primary on Aug. 2. (Allan Stein\/The Epoch Times) <\/p>\n<p>Christie, who chaired then-president Donald Trump\u2019s Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission, and Trump\u2019s former vice president Mike Pence both have endorsed businesswoman Karrin Robson.<\/p>\n<p>For Arizona\u2019s next governor, Trump has thrown his support behind former Fox10 anchor Kari Lake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only if you\u2019ve known someone for a decade and truly believe in them that you would get on a plane this morning in New Jersey and fly out here to Arizona,\u201d Christie told about 30 people at the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActions are what matters. And what I\u2019ve seen from Karrin over the 10 years I\u2019ve known her are actions that tell me she\u2019s a leader\u2014first and foremost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m involved in this primary because there is no comparison in my mind between Karrin and Kari Lake. I\u2019ve been following this campaign closely for the past few months, and I don\u2019t know who [Lake] is\u2014worse, I don\u2019t think she does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robson, whose husband is billionaire Ed Robson, alluded to eight past and present U.S. state governors who have endorsed her candidacy, saying \u201cthey know better than anybody what it takes to be a governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of momentum. My opponent doesn\u2019t like where we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPE, Ariz.\u2014Listening to their campaign rhetoric, you\u2019d think the race for Arizona governor came down to an epic struggle between \u201cgood and evil.\u201d Barbs were flying this past weekend between\u00a0current front-runner and former Obama Democrat turned Republican\u00a0Kari Lake and \u201cEstablishment RINO\u201d (Republican In Name Only)\u00a0Karrin Taylor Robson, as both\u00a0pulled out all the rhetorical stops at [\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-1583723","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\/1583723","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=1583723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583723\/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=1583723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}