{"id":1587593,"date":"2022-08-03T17:33:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T21:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1587593"},"modified":"2022-08-03T17:33:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T21:33:37","slug":"america-first-candidate-finchem-wins-gop-nomination-for-arizona-secretary-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-first-candidate-finchem-wins-gop-nomination-for-arizona-secretary-of-state\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018America First\u2019 Candidate Finchem Wins GOP Nomination for Arizona Secretary of State"},"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%2Famerica-first-candidate-finchem-wins-gop-nomination-for-arizona-secretary-of-state%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=1587593&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>Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem has won the Republican nomination for Arizona secretary of state in the Aug. 2 primary election.<\/p>\n<p>Finchem defeated his closest rival, Beau Lane, with 38 percent of the vote.\u00a0Lane received 26 percent, while state Rep. Shawnna Bolick drew 20 percent, and state Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita collected 16 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Finchem, a state House of Representatives member serving District 11 since January 2015, received former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s endorsement as an \u201cAmerica First\u201d candidate in the Arizona primary.<\/p>\n<p>In the race for the state\u2019s top election post, Finchem has made election integrity a cornerstone of his campaign following the disputed 2020 election and forensic audit in Maricopa County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, I stand for the rule of law, that nobody has their thumb on the scale of election integrity and election justice,\u201d Finchem told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make sure every candidate, whether they\u2019re Democrat, Republican, Libertarian\u2014I don\u2019t care what party they are\u2014they have a right to be on the ballot if they qualify, and they have a right to be treated fairly under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finchem will face former Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, in the general election on Nov. 8.\u00a0Fontes defeated Reginald Bolding 53\u201347 percent, to win his party\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got three months of a grueling campaign,\u201d Finchem said.<\/p>\n<p>On the Democratic side, current Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs trounced Marco L\u00f3pez and Aaron Lieberman with 73 percent of the vote to win the party\u2019s nomination for governor.<\/p>\n<p>In a five-way Republican race for Arizona attorney general, Trump-endorsed \u201cAmerica First\u201d candidate Abe Hamadeh currently leads with 29 percent of the vote, ahead of his closest rival, Rodney Glassman, with 24 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Gould trails at 18 percent, Dawn Grove at 14 percent, and Lacy Cooper at 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem has won the Republican nomination for Arizona secretary of state in the Aug. 2 primary election. Finchem defeated his closest rival, Beau Lane, with 38 percent of the vote.\u00a0Lane received 26 percent, while state Rep. Shawnna Bolick drew 20 percent, and state Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita collected 16 percent. Finchem, a [\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-1587593","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\/1587593","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=1587593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587593\/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=1587593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}