{"id":532881,"date":"2021-05-21T08:47:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T12:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=532881"},"modified":"2021-05-21T10:11:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:11:03","slug":"trump-great-politically-for-republicans-to-talk-arizona-election-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-great-politically-for-republicans-to-talk-arizona-election-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: &#039;Great Politically&#039; for Republicans to Talk Arizona Election Audit"},"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%2Ftrump-great-politically-for-republicans-to-talk-arizona-election-audit%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=532881&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-1.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump said Republicans would benefit greatly from talking about Arizona&#8217;s 2020 election audit.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Senate hired an audit team last month to begin reviewing nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County, along with machines used to conduct the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s all people ask me. They say, &#8216;What\u2019s going on in Arizona?'&#8221;&nbsp;Trump told One America News in an interview that aired Thursday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-criticizes-weak-republicans-for-not-talking-about-arizona-election-audit-audit_3825035.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Epoch Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They want to talk about the election fraud. The weak Republicans don\u2019t want to talk about it. The weak or stupid or RINOs [Republican in name only], call them whatever you want, and yet the Republican voter, that&#8217;s what they want to hear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They want to hear about 2020. They want to find out, is that something that should be turned over? When they rob a jewelry store of all the diamonds and they get caught, you have to return the diamonds. They want to find out what&#8217;s going on. The Republican voter wants the story. The weak Republican politician doesn&#8217;t want to talk about this story because they think it&#8217;s bad politically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump believes otherwise. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s great politically,&#8221;&nbsp;he said.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden defeated Trump by more than 45,000 votes in heavily Republican Maricopa County. That resulted in a&nbsp;10,000-vote victory statewide for Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Although Arizona Republicans have been vocal in supporting the audit, Reps. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz. and Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., have not been joined by many national level GOP lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that if current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had been more focused more on election integrity, he would have defeated&nbsp;Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other than fundraising, he\u2019s really weak,&#8221; Trump said of McConnell.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Ariz., who last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/liz-cheney-elise-stefanik-gop-republicans\/2021\/05\/14\/id\/1021385\/\">replaced<\/a> Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., as the House Republican Conference chair, spoke of the audit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I support that audit,&#8221; Stefanik said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Transparency is good for the American people. And again, this should be a nonpartisan issue, whether you are Republican, Democrat, independent, or conservative, transparency is important, and the audit was passed by the Arizona state Senate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats strongly oppose the Arizona audit, and have accused auditors of failing to implement property security measures.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Democratic Party attempted to stop the audit but failed in court.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s Department of Justice also has expressed concerns about the audit, claiming ballots and machines were not &#8220;being adequately safeguarded by contractors at an insecure facility, and are at risk of being lost, stolen, altered, compromised, or destroyed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Auditors disagreed, saying there was 24-hour armed security and other measures in place.<\/p>\n<p>The audit, being held at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, is on hold this week because of high school graduations. It&#8217;s expected to resume Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the Arizona Senate decided to audit election results from Maricopa County, where the population of approximately 4.5 million residents represents more than 60% of the state\u2019s citizens, and whose registered Republicans outnumber Democrats by more than 100,000 as of last October.<\/p>\n<p>A poll by HighGround Inc., an Arizona public affairs firm, found that 78% of Arizona Republicans believe fraud was a factor in Biden&#8217;s victory, a figure supported by other national polls showing strong GOP support for such claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump said Republicans would benefit greatly from talking about Arizona&#8217;s 2020 election audit. 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