With ballots continuing to be counted in various counties around Arizona, specifically including the corrupt county of Maricopa, Republican candidate Kari Lake has extended her lead beyond the ability of Arizona election officials to remove it. The Associated Press calls the race for Kari Lake.
PHOENIX (AP) — Kari Lake, a former news anchor who walked away from her journalism career and was embraced by Donald Trump and his staunch supporters, won the Republican primary for Arizona governor on Thursday.
Lake’s victory was a blow to the GOP establishment that lined up behind lawyer and businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson in an attempt to push their party past the chaotic Trump era. Lake said she would not have certified President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory and put false claims of election fraud at the center of her campaign.
“The MAGA movement rose up like their lives depended on it,” Lake said as she declared victory prematurely on Wednesday afternoon, a day before the race was called, using an acronym for Trump’s Make America Great Again movement. “And it proved that you can’t buy an election, at least not in Arizona. We the people rose up and spoke.”
Robson, who is married to one of Arizona’s richest men, largely self-funded her campaign. She called the 2020 election “unfair” but stopped short of calling it fraudulent and pushed for the GOP to look toward the future.
[…] Former Vice President Mike Pence, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie all campaigned for Robson in the days before the election. (read more)
It turns out she won all the counties.
As someone observing from Australia, can a fellow Treeper please explain how with 61.6% of the vote counted, Kari Lake was trailing by 34,180 votes. But after that, the tide turned with Kari Lake now winning (won!) by 19,752 votes with 88.3% of the vote counted. I assumed county differences but this isn’t the case. Did they count the mail-in ballots first? Or something else. Thank you.
Yes, I believe the mail-ins were counted first.
So why was such an almost overwhelming lead established by Robson with just the mail in votes? I think we all know the answer to that. Lake needs to do to Maricopa County what DeSantis did to Brevard County
It is always the canvas, not the count.
The elderly often vote by mail in. Driving issues…They’ll vote for name recognition.
naive
They also are the ones who still have a need to vote in person on Election Day. KL’s comeback was fueled by a 2 to 1 advantage on voting Day. She also had a 20 point advantage in Pre election polls which never skew in favor of MAGA
So the real question should be, “Why wasnt this election called for KL two hours after the polls closed
IMO, it’s because of their attempts to affect the outcome. If you watch the reporting locations percentages over time you will find the percentage reporting went up and down repeatedly. How do you have 91% of a precinct reporting and then drop to only 82%? Ruling out input error (because it happened to so many precincts) you are only left with MANIPULATION in an attempt to get the outcome you wanted.
The problem for the Dems and Repubs this time was that KL brought in such numbers that they couldn’t overcome them. Much like P Trump in 16.
Here in N.CA I have been voting at the same polling place for 40 years (yeah, haven’t moved in 40 years). I always vote on Election Day, and I have ALWAYS placed my ballot in a scanning machine which tallies my vote IMMEDIATELY. For the FIRST TIME in 40 years … at the June 2022 election … I was instructed to place my ballot in a cardboard box … which they promised would be dropped off at the County Elections Center and counted. WTF!!??
My Election Day vote is now treated WORSE than a mail-in vote. Seems my CA County is now all-in for mail-in (fraudulent) voting. Oh well … nothing I vote for ever passes in this State anyway … the George Soros County Prosecutor Dianna Becton was re-elected despite rising violent crime, burglary, and mass shoplifting/looting. Oh well … enjoy the decline
Oh well, since they promised…that’s dodgy as hell, especially since they “fixed” a system that wasn’t broken.
The elderly’s votes are being STOLEN, not just in Eisconsin, but across the country..
In our case (in 2000) our votes were all carefully thought out – we went over the sample ballots on each person running/ballot initiative –
but in the case of “fake” ballots, I can see how those people would vote for “name recognition” – it’s kind of hard to keep up on things when you have already died!
I’ll suggest that the mail-ins trended to Robson because the AZ GOP party establishment strongly urged its apparatchiks to vote by mail. One reason is to achieve psychological edge in the early vote tallies, which lays groundwork for a premature concession by the targeted candidate. Another reason is simply competition with the ever-cheating democrats. Early ballot requests BY PARTY in this case provides a measure of voter interest. Ballot return counts provide a measure of enthusiasm. The more, the earlier, the better. NOTE: I have first-hand knowledge of this sort of thinking.
See also Edink’s comment in this thread which well states the very likely Kari Lake campaign strategy.
Slight correction: It was Broward Co.
Not to be outdone, Brevard Co. suffered the same election malfeasance, especially down ballot in 2020. Lived in Brevard for 20+ years.
For an excellent synopsis of how Govt’s illegally and corruptly expanded during the 80’s read ‘The Good Ole Boys” by Glenda Busick. I was in my early 30’s then (1992), never trusted Govt, and that book really cemented my distrust.
Governor DeSantis is doing an excellent job, simply governing the State of FL.
IMHO.
Exactly! After Gov. DeSantis fired Snipes our elections are much better.
It was Broward County (Ft Lauderdale), the largest county in Florida, not Brevard County.
This is just a description. Make what you will of it.
Maricopa County is by far the largest voting bloc and they reported early a significantly large plurality for Robson. As the other counties reported, Lake overtook that plurality and lead most of the night (eventually, by as much as 10,000 votes). Maricopa stopped counting. Upon reopening the next morning, they began to challenge a large number of ballots and throughout the day, they adjudicated them. By the evening of the second day, they reported about the same mix with Robson getting more of the contested votes. After the second day, they reported the last tranche of contested votes, which went overwhelmingly for Lake. So much so, they overwhelmed Robson lead in the county and Lake won Maricopa as well as every other county in Arizona.
Truly, an overwhelming victory. Any suggestion that Republicans should not unite behind her is bogus and sour grapes.
Broward County; easy to confuse.
I believe she encouraged her voters to vote in person on Tuesday.
When en masse election day voting happens it doesn’t give the cheaters the edge of knowing quantity or being able to use fake ballots during the day. You know a few here a few there, then just enough in the big blue urban districts.
Really looks bad when there are more votes cast that voters.
They had to show their hand against Trump.
Fool me once…, once you see the strings… yada, yada, yada.
163,000 erroneous ballots were sent out in Maricopa County. Also voters complained of the ink being smeared on the ballots, yet Election officials claimed things were going smoothly!
That is exactly what they did in Virginia. The people came out in such huge numbers to vote on election day that they couldn’t cheat. Now we know the formula for beating their lying cheating asses. If Kari Lake wins the Governorship, Arizona will be the first state to overturn the 2020 Presidential election.
Rush, (God rest his soul) always encouraged his listeners to vote on Election Day. 70 years young, I make every effort to vote on Election Day. This appears to be a very good strategy for conservatives.
The fraudulent mail in ballots from dead and out of state people were counted first!
I remember hearing back in 2000 after the election (where George W. Bush was elected) that the absentee ballots were not counted in California – then maybe they were – or then maybe they weren’t –
we heard that the absentee ballots were never counted because they would not outweigh the in-person votes (for Gore) anyway –
not right!
Grandmother (then 97 years old) and her elderly neighbor (87) and I all voted by absentee ballots that year in case we could not make it to the polls –
First she was winning, then she was losing and now she has won. All of the votes were counted, which takes time in Arizona. I’m wondering what’s the average age of those doing the counting, and more importantly their cut off hour for votes being submitted. But whatever, Lake won, and democracy prevailed!!
There are over 50K votes left to count. Kari’s margin will double.
Also, always be careful of percent of vote. It is as unreliable as anything Microsoft puts on the screen.
Here, it generally refers to the precincts that have reported. But that isn’t necessarily proportional to voters. So it isn’t a percentage of the vote counted.
It is easy to be misled early on.
I saw a stat yesterday that Kari Lake won in-person votes by 80%, so that’s prolly it. Mail in vs in-person votes.
We have to overwhelm them on Election Day, the only day where voting should be available, with few exceptions.
It is all about the ground game.
From what pieced together a part of it is due to large numbers of mail ballots were handed in by the voter on election day rather than being dropped in a box. It seems it was an overwhelming number of voters who were informed and smart enough to do that.
rinoRats and democRats tried to Steal It for the Uni-Buzzard Party but failed.
The Buzzard Party won in the JawGa Repub Primary setting up a very plausable Win for the Bolshevik Stacy Abrams democRats in November.
Just like Trump won all of the states?
Thanks for all your replies everyone. Much appreciated.
IF you’d like to get a good laugh, visit Meghan McCain’s twitter.
As Trump’s choice, of course she absolutely hates Lake and was a big supporter of her opponent.
Wouldn’t you love to hear the conversation between her and Big Rhona Romney?
Yep, that conversation will carry a lot of “weight,” that’s for sure.
Don’t forget Cindy.
For some strange reason, I picture that conversation happening in a donut shop.
Good riddance to Doug DuceyBag.
Ducey doesn’t like the idea that Lake might out him as being complicit in the steal. UniParty freaks out a little, I think.
Our kind of fighter!
I’d call her a mama Bear! She will fight to protect and defend her children, and that’s where the future is!
Look at this. Politico keeps messing with the numbers. See under each image the
” % of expected vote in”
7pm Today
Now at 10pm
https://www.politico.com/2022-election/results/arizona/
They can just keep changing it to whatever they want whenever they want as needed.
I am really happy for Kari and for AZ.
I pray for all of us she wins in November because I believe she truly will deal w/the border.
I am also really happy to know that the McCain hacks of AZ are having hissy fits, good riddance.
This is how we DO it!
The Az Republican party is now the America First Az Republican party, and McStain faction has been excorsised from it!
FIRST you control the party, through grass roots organising and working up.
Lots of focus on State legislature.
Form an America First SLATE of candidates, and do GOTV work, door to door to develop these candidates.
And make 2020 steal, and election integrity #1 issue, and DON’T back down.
All 12 Trump endorsed candidates in, and at least two major establishment R’s, formerly big names in Az politics, are now TOAST.
SWAMP THE VOTE, to beat the steal!
Virginia and Arizona showed us how to beat the lying cheating D RATS. SWAMP THE VOTE. That is why Trump kept saying to vote on election day because the cheaters don’t have the ability to figure out how many people are showing up to vote.
So True! Only with America First, and by this Arizona First (or any state) can we correct this battered ship. To fix our national congress we must elect and send candidates who put their states first… this is the way the founders wanted it. Then, only by fierce debate and compromise will we get the slow incremental changes the fine tune a government rather than the scheming corrupt system we have now.
MAGA Slate 535!
80,000,000 X $100= $8 billion war chest.
They fear us because they know we have the power. It just needs to be harnessed.
McCain – The best friend a democrat ever had!
And Satan.
They’re buds now.
Seems like it maybe is DC Lifers vs the American people.
Yes, and also the unelected bureaucrats at the state and local levels too. We saw one sign of that with DeSantis firing a county prosecutor.
There are millions of those Branch 4 affiliates embedded all over the country using their ‘discretion’ in concert with the corrupt judicial system.
One hurdle down, many more to go. Hobbs still runs the election process and she’s Kari’s opposition in November. I daresay the machine was learning more lawfare tricks this primary and their mud-flinging branch hasn’t yet hit with full force.
“Chaotic Trump era” – that is hilarious!
When we wake up and remember we outnumber them, then we will destroy them forever. So glad to see those young kids. Future is looking good.
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Kari Lake shows why the naysayers who urge you to not vote, or to vote third party, out of some kind of “principle” are wrong.
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^^THIS!^^
Yep. Not voting is quitting. It guarantees that you lose.
I think that the naysayers would have voted for Kari Lake, not a 3rd party. She is MAGA.
I think the naysayers say “vote 3rd party” when, in the general, a MAGA candidate is not the (R) choice.
Trump is truly a genius. He is playing the traitors and they either don’t realize it or are hopeless to stop him. It’s not usually those that are easily identified that are traitors…Watch.
they are so rattled by MAGA that they can’t help but out themselves
it also helps that we voters are paying attention and are determined
Sent Kari a small donation for the primary and will send another for her general election. Did the same for MTG. I am not wealthy but we need MAGA fighters to defeat the Communist takeover of our nation.
Most GOP politicians are only slightly better than Democrats. President Trump is drawing them out and we the people are taking them out. Trump 2024
Steve Bannon’s warroom deserves a good bit of credit for forcing this wrap-up today.
Bannon put AZ GOP chairwoman Kelly Ward on the spot yesterday asking what she would do in her capacity as chairwoman to bring this to an end. Although she’s been a fighter, she dodged the direct inference he was making to call Robson and ask her to concede:
https://rumble.com/v1en43p-dr.-kelli-ward-explains-the-numerous-maga-electoral-victories-yesterday.html
He had Kelly Ward again on today, and skipped the sublety:
https://rumble.com/v1erjf5-is-maricopa-countys-lagging-vote-count-a-repeat-of-2020.html
Let’s see what her numbers look like day after tomorrow, since votes get “found” for days after an election.
Valid voter ID.
One paper ballot marked with pen.
One Election Day.
No mail ins other than Military & Dr. certified handicapped.
Add the purple dye/ink on the finger.
Why can’t Americans get this simple fix for election day shenanigans? Of course we still have to fix this bogus mail voting disaster.
Its all about power and money…………………..
As a resident & voter in AZ, I demand whoever has their hands in the cookie jar of ballots to get them out. NOW!
Kari Lake won!
We know it and you know it!
Don’t even think of pulling another DJT on us – ever! You’re still counting the recount & looking for “missing “ ballots!
Wonder how that obnoxious Aussie ‘journo’ from 60 Minutes in Australia , who had that train wreck
interview with Kari a few months ago, is feeling today?
Pretty sheepish one would think.
Or Faux News Brett Baier who got a real dressing down from Kari Lake.
Knowing Pence, Ducey, and Christie campained for Robson is all I needed to know about her.
“Republican candidate Kari Lake has extended her lead beyond the ability of Arizona election officials to remove it.”
They sure have tried/are trying. Corrupticrats gotta corrupt.
This writer almost echoes what I wrote here yesterday:
“...Mathematically, Kari Lake cannot lose. That is, unless Maricopa county “finds” 20k extra votes for Robson somewhere. But Maricopa find themselves in … quite the predicament. They are under the microscope. They are the epicenter of voter fraud from 2020. They are being closely observed. They aren’t going to be able to get away with sneaking in this many ballots THIS late in the game. They are too late.
…And oddly enough, the DNC candidate who will meet Lake in the General Election, Katie Hobbs, is the current Arizona Secretary of State, who OVERSEES STATE ELECTIONS….
…She can’t run an election on time, but we are going to let her run the entire State? Not a chance. Kari Lake just secured the General Election in November as well.
I find it fitting that the entire country are (Sic) witnessing voter fraud, in the county with the biggest spotlight around voter fraud, in the race with the candidate most vocal about voter fraud. Rather apropos.
In conclusion, Kari Lake won. The Deep State tried to steal it for Robson with the mail-in voting, but AZ showed up and out-voted the fraud. And the entire country are (Sic) getting a front row seat.”
https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/maricopa-county-attempting-to-steal
(My emphasis in bold above)
However, the DEMS want these delays of two, three, or even more days to become a “new normal,” so that in 2024, or perhaps even this year, their fraud will still go through, observed, exposed, obvious, or not.
I suspect that they will not care, that they will scream THE LIE even more loudly, censor more threateningly, and by doing so trigger a response which will allow them to use the military against us.
I ask myself whether I am proposing some sort of political fantasy from an alternative universe with those words.
However, I believe – to my horror- that all of the above is quite possible today!
This is like a repeat of 2016 when the cheat was on for Hillary but was overwhelmed by President Trump voters! Which lead to the massive fraudulent voting by mail in 2020! I guess the AZ fraudsters under estimated Lake’s support! Praise God!
Oh Ausonius, the likes of Hobbs can “run” their state, in the same manner as Biden “runs” the country.
“She can’t run an election on time, but we are going to let her run the entire State? Not a chance. Kari Lake just secured the General Election in November as well.”
Stepping back and taking the biggest view:
In times past Hobb’s would have ensured election integrity knowing that in her race for Governor, the importance of being able to remind the citizens what a great job she did as SOS and will continue to do as their next governor….
But today’s corrupted minds cannot even fathom pretending integrity in the pursuit of the next gain.
This is to our benefit – from here on out it should be pretty easy to see who is an American and who is not.
How does someone win EVERY County in the State but only wins by 20K votes?
When you cheat extensively and every possible way you can conceive, but still lose?
Test run for November when it matters.
Now they have a better idea of how they have to cheat.
Yep, fortifying the cheating process with the veneer of election integrity. See, the MAGA person won.
I’m heartened that she did win but IMO this is far, far from over, considering AZ’s role in the national elections to come.
well done AZ,
This is a big, big win for the future of our nation and its recovery.
“…chaotic Trump era” my ass.
The GOPe will never get it. They and their evil henchmen think they are smarter than everyone else.
The GOpe are the evil henchmen and they are smart – as snakes.
Congrats to Kari Lake! May she succeed in all of her campaign promises!
My great grandfather started a dairy and poultry farm in Arizona in the late 1800’s, basically when Phoenix had a couple dozen streets in the downtown area and water actually flowed in the Salt River for farms.
I was born and raised in Arizona.
My parents are buried in Arizona.
It’s difficult to adequately express how pissed off I am about what has happened to Arizona. GD them.
Yep, and, unfortunately, the exodus from my native state spanning seven decades, of which I had a similar outlook to your own, has caused many of your problems.
When my family came to CA from Russia over a century ago, it was a land of opportunity. How far we’ve fallen. Hate to see it happen to anyone. Hopefully, patriots and long time Arizonans can arrest the fall.
Just for fun stop by CNN’s homepage and see if you can find the name Kari Lake ANYWHERE on the page. Meanwhile I am so happy for Kari. Having listened to a few of her interviews early I made a donation to her campaign. I hope and pray she is the real deal.
Meanwhile over at MSNBC “Kari Lake, a right-wing conspiracy theorist endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has won Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial primary election, NBC News projected on Thursday. 😂
Although it was a tremendous victory for Lake it was also only the Primaries. She has won the right to continue her quest for the governorship of Arizona. I am buoyed by the fact that she carried all the counties and simply overwhelmed the ability to cheat to produce a different outcome. Should she go on to win the general election I will liken it to the quote of “Eating the elephant one bite at a time.” You go girl!
While this is indeed a great victory for a wonderful candidate, one must assume that the forces of evil are already plotting and gaming the general election in Arizona and battleground states.
Of the battleground states, Georgia is gone, nothing has changed in NM, and Dem controlled Supreme Ct in Pennsylvania just overrode the republican legislators which had instituted voting reform. While that later goes against the state constitution and may eventually be overturned by the national Supreme Ct, it will not happen in time for the Nov elections.
We took a great stride forward in Arizona but still have a long way to go
I would only change.. ‘eating the elephant AND DONKEY, one bite at a time’.
Sour Grapes from the AP, they still don’t get it. Donald J. Trump is not the “Leader” of the MAGA Movement. Donald J. Trump is the MAGA Movement’s weapon! And, he’s aimed, directly at the heart of the GOPe.
Once that is done, he will be coming for the others, and all Hell, and the MAGA Movement, is coming with him.
I would disagree with you. We didn’t know how badly we needed MAGA until candidate Trump came down the escalator & started “rallying” us
Before Pres. Trump, “Make America Great” was a Democrat phrase used by Pres. Clinton, I believe.
The RINOS & GOPe don’t want MAGA, just like they didn’t want the Tea Party. McConnell is having much more trouble suppressing MAGA than he did the Tea Party.
That is why we have to rid ourselves of RINOs & GOPe, like McConnell & McCarthy, as party leaders.
Because of Pres. Trump, we know MAGA is something that unites Americans in all walks of life & is strongly resistant to Communism & Democrats. To say Pres. Trump is not the leader of MAGA sounds like you wish he’d never come down the escalator.
Well said!
Kattie Hobbs next job will be outside of politics. If the fraud can be controlled, Kari Lake will crush the crocked little P.O.S..
Less than 20,000 vote difference and won all 15 counties or so? Yeah, right. They were trying to spread the cheat around instead of in one place. “If we cant do it here, we will do it there.” I guess too many eyes on them everywhere thank goodness.
I hope this is the result of patriots working each polling place, grass roots, watching the cheaters, replacing the cheaters with new American citizens who will get involved and work to insure real elections.
If they have 10 libs at the polls, we need to have 20 patriots. Everywhere. Don’t let them bully us, if laws appear to be in process of being broken, call the police or U S Marshalls.
I am encouraged for the first time since the clintons started the reign of terror on our country.
Bush Family. Clintons were about 4th up to bat in the WEF lineup.
Ruh, Roh, George… We have a problem… Despite all our shenanigans we still lost…
YES!
US media: “Kari Lake was only furious about ballot fraud when she thought she was losing.”
what I hope to hear:
Kari Lake: “When governor, I will not stop until I have exposed the systemic ballot fraud that occurred in my primary election.”
A very important observation! Seems obvious to me , now! 😀
love it.
Those numbers are not close.
Why do we have to wait for a far Left msm propaganda outlet like the AP to ‘call’ our elections?
Stay tuned and watch how they think they should run the debates too ? Who died and made them in charge ? I say screw them. Do it ourselves, leave the commie lib press out in the cold.
If Kari becomes another Governor Ron DeSantis or even close that would be answered prayer.
And she can start with Maricopa county it’s got be full of Soros people.
A media organization calling an election doesn’t end the election. It is, however, a message from “fraud-central” informing them to “give up or you will be caught and prosecuted.” It’s incredibly disgusting that they would try this though it feels like it was a test to see how well people would accept this. They didn’t and they won’t.
I hope this was a test and they give up. They stand a better chance of staying out of prison if they do.
Agree. A mdia organization makes it a “fait accompli” which was an element of the 2020 steal. In this instance they are trying not to overstretch the “con” and “faud-central” took protective acton.
Now let the dogs out. Law and order. Take back our Constitutional rights, civil rights and throw out the blatant hogwash that has destroyed the will of the people.
3 observations – i) I hope there is proof of some overt cheating and not just suspicions , 2) regardless, assuming Kari wins in November , she does what DeSantis did , and fires and cleans out rats – doesn’t need “ to prove”anything , but has that power and getting rid of rats cures the problem and 3) didn’t know this about Robson, her opponent , a political family / insider , reminded me of Alaska Sen . Murk ., but no idea so weird . Billionaire husband like 92 , married in 2017 ? She is like 57 – buying an Office ?
One other point , if Kari won all counties , even Maricorrupta ( Robson family home turf ), then you can figure her margin of victory was larger than reported and “they” manufactured votes for Robson in hopes of keeping it close or overtaking her … a 5 to 10% starting “handicap” advantage to Robson IMHO which fortunately wasn’t enough to overcome the real votes for Kari – but who knows or can say for sure… ?
Gotta love the word-smithing of the liberal media. They are fantastic at using words to their advantage. As Sundance always says, “Once you see the strings, you can no longer unsee them”:
“the chaotic Trump era”
Chaotic? Only because AP, the media, Hollywood and the entire cast of lefty liberals MADE it chaotic.
“ false claims of election fraud”
False? As if AP is all-knowing, which they are not. Rather than using a neutral term (“Claims of election fraud”), AP decides to be judge and jury on something they don’t actually know to be false or true. Just another example of the media telling the reader what to think.
“she declared victory prematurely”
Prematurely? By what measure? Who died and made AP the judge in elections?
I hope the AZ GOP are ready for the NOV cheat. Lawyers on hand at every location and counting center. Really they should get rid of the central counter centers. Unless they have web cams to watch every move the counters make, with Sherifs on guard at every table.
They should require the Signed Envelope be scanned with the corresponding ballot it came in for all mail in ballots. I do like the idea of handing in the mail-in paper ballot the day of election. People should take a picture of their ballot and get a receipt as well.
Bannon is doing an AMAZING INTERVIEW with Kari right LIVE now at the TX CPAC Show.
WarRoom Live
By Bannons War Room
https://rumble.com/v13md1w-warroom-live.html
This will be one we need to get and share the full clip when he’s done!
Her race will be one for the history books. ALL grass roots. No major media.
Youngest of nine. Wow.
Thanks. She is smart, elegant, articulate, Presidential.
He’s interviewing Ed Harris now who said he was embarrassed by how Fox “offed TRUMP” and how they are sycophants of the Biden admin. He’s naming names of who done it.
Joshua Phillips of Crossroads on Epoch Times and Epoch TV now.
Hallelujah!
Arizona elections are an ONGOING CRIME!
If Ms Lake is elected Gov of AZ, and I hope so, she must go full DeSantis. Part of that will be to ‘salt the ground’ by running out of AZ the McCain’s and their acolytes. Long time residents of AZ fully understand what I am talking about.