It was supposed to be a proxy war in the desert between Donald Trump and Mike Pence that would show the future of the GOP. It was more of a scrimmage than a real game. In Arizona, the Republican Party landscape continues to tilt towards Trump. Those who watched the former president speak were aware of it. They offered wild conspiracy theories about the last election and said that Trump would win the next one. The vestige of the old, establishment wing of the GOP is gone for them. One attendee said that he was a good man. One of the people who wanted to convince Trump to head up a liquidation of the federal government had no opinion onence. Georgianna Bruso said she didn't know that Vice President Mike Pence was in the state. The vice president came to the state to support the Republican candidate for governor who is running against the president's supporters in the election. The setting of the stop made it clear that this would be a proxy battle.
The last election was derided by honest observers as a farce after Trump supporters conducted an "audit" of it.
The largest county in Arizona is where Ron Watkins is running for Congress.
The state Republican Party censured the speaker of the Arizona state House for testifying against Trump. Walt Blackman, a Republican state lawmaker running for Congress, recently made headlines for suggesting that abortion is tied to efforts to kill Black people.
In parts of Arizona, a veteran Republican strategist said, "you can say some crazy shit."
Or participate in a statewide primary.
It doesn't matter how much damage was done to the state party during Trump's time in office. The Republican Party lost two Senate seats and a presidential race.
They were cheering when they arrived, it was the prospect of him running again. If Lake loses to Pence in the governor's race, Trump's supporters won't change their mind about him.
If she did, they wouldn't believe it. Lake's suggestion that she might not accept the results of her election is a line from the Trump campaign.
Stan Barnes, a former state lawmaker and long-time Republican consultant, described the Trump and Pence appearances in Arizona as "like some sort of planetary lineup that you witness every millennium"
He said that the tearing of the fabric in the Republican Party was a slow-motion, real-time event. The voters in the Republican Party in Arizona aren't just choosing a candidate to represent the party in the general election, they're also having Donald Trump do his thing with his candidate. The direction of the party is being decided by them.
Barnes said that he didn't think Trump would come out a loser.
The wealthy real estate developer and former member of the state's board of regents refused to say that the election was stolen. She said she didn't think the election was fair. She has drawn closer to Lake by portraying her as an inauthentic conservative, even though she did not criticize her for lying about the 2020 election.
On Friday, she criticized Lake for donating to Obama, while Pence said that Arizona Republicans don't need a governor that supported Clinton.
That isn't a litmus test for the most consequential schism in the GOP.
Bill Gates asked if it had been a full-throated defense of the election that took place in the state of Arizona. That isn't what she's done She has not gone all in and off the deep end but she has thrown some red meat to people.
He thinks the majority of candidates in the party have that.
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