![]() Kirk Adams, a former state representative and adviser to Ducey, called the actions akin to going down “the rabbit hole of loyalty.” ![]() What’s going on with the leadership at the AZ GOP is the exact opposite. “Parties that want to be successful bring people together and expand the number of people who are attracted to the party. It’s foolish,” says Glenn Hamer, former executive director of the Arizona Republican Party. John McCain, who endorsed Biden during the election, was censured for supporting “leftist causes” and failing to support Trump.įlake, a CNN contributor, was also condemned for supporting Biden in the election. The party censured Ducey for imposing emergency rules as Covid-19 gripped Arizona, saying those emergency orders to contain the virus violated the Constitution and amounted to the governor enacting “dictatorial powers.” The three Republicans are being formally censured for what the state party described in its meeting as a variety of “failures.” The decision to censure those three Republicans – in addition to re-electing controversial chairwoman Kelli Ward – solidified the rightward shift of the official party, while also reflecting the deep fractures among Arizona Republicans over the future of the GOP, which suffered bruising defeats at the ballot box in 2020 in this increasingly purple state.īiden flipped Arizona last fall – the first time a Democrat has carried the state in a presidential election since Bill Clinton won the state in 1996 – and Democrat Mark Kelly defeated Martha McSally in the US Senate race, just two years after McSally lost the state’s other Senate seat to a Democrat. ![]() Jeff Flake and Cindy McCain, all of whom opposed Trump’s efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory, or in the case of Flake and McCain, endorsed the Democrat before the election. The Arizona Republican Party sent a clear signal Saturday that its leadership remains loyal to former President Donald Trump when it voted to publicly punish Arizona Gov. ![]()
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