{"id":1594369,"date":"2022-08-08T11:48:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1594369"},"modified":"2022-08-08T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:49:51","slug":"gop-candidate-alleges-being-blackmailed-to-drop-out-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-candidate-alleges-being-blackmailed-to-drop-out-of-race\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Candidate Alleges Being Blackmailed to Drop Out of 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\">20<\/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%2Fgop-candidate-alleges-being-blackmailed-to-drop-out-of-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=1594369&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>An Arizona Republican congressional candidate alleges that he has been blackmailed into dropping out of the race in exchange for having Jan. 6 charges against his son dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Zink, a Republican candidate in Arizona running for U.S. Congress, is challenging incumbent Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) who is running for reelection.<\/p>\n<p>The district they run in includes much of Phoenix and is a Democrat stronghold. Zink said he has been campaigning in Phoenix, reaching out to the Democrats and focusing on grassroots people.<\/p>\n<p>The issues Zink\u2019s campaign focuses on are: community improvements, public safety, education, and freedom, especially defending the 2nd Amendment, according to his campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/jeffzinkforcongress.com\/services\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The challenged incumbent is a proponent of socialist policies and a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.\u00a0Gallego suggested in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RubenGallego\/status\/1496138717890850819\">Twitter\u00a0post<\/a>\u00a0in February to seize trucks that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-trucker-convoy-to-shut-down-traffic-on-major-roads-outside-washington-dc-organizer_4291970.html\">formed a convoy<\/a> near Washington to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates and redistribute the vehicles to other trucking businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Progressive Caucus is the most radical and influential coalition in the federal government within extensive ties to several major Marxist organizations, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/congressional-progressive-caucus-has-extensive-ties-to-marxist-organizations_2719131.html\">Trevor Loudon<\/a>, author and filmmaker, who has been researching radical and terrorist groups and their covert influence on politics. Loudon is the host of EpochTV\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/c-counterpunch\">Counterpunch<\/a>\u201d program.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Blackmail Attempts<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Zink recounted that he once received a strange phone call that was not displayed on his phone, but a voice on the other end told him that if he dropped out of the congressional race, the Jan. 6 charges against his son would be dropped.<\/p>\n<p>The metadata on the phone showed that no incoming call was taken in, Zink told EpochTV\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"denied:ttps:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/candidate-alleges-attempted-blackmail-over-sons-j6-charges-evidence-being-altered-by-jan-6-committee_4636152.html\">Crossroads<\/a>\u201d program in an interview in July.<\/p>\n<p>He said he has received several phone calls like that one over the last one and a half years. All of them attempted to pressure him to drop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arizona Republican congressional candidate alleges that he has been blackmailed into dropping out of the race in exchange for having Jan. 6 charges against his son dropped. Jeff Zink, a Republican candidate in Arizona running for U.S. Congress, is challenging incumbent Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) who is running for reelection. 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