Election denier Mark Finchem loses secretary of state race in Arizona

[Justice matters.]

Source: NBC News

Republican Mark Finchem, a prominent election denier, has lost to Democrat Adrian Fontes in the race for Arizona secretary of state race, NBC News projects.

Fontes, a former top elections official for Maricopa County, will succeed Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for governor.

Finchem was among a host of GOP candidates for statewide office who have repeatedly cast doubt over Joe Biden’s presidential victory or falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump in Arizona.

Last year, Trump backed Finchem's candidacy and highlighted his record of defending the stolen election claims. “Mark was willing to say what few others had the courage to say” about the 2020 election, Trump said in offering his public support.


Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/election-denier-mark-finchem-loses-secretary-state-race-arizona-rcna56880

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Another ugly anti-democracy bites the dust!

THANK YOU ALL PRO-DEMOCRACY VOTERS IN AZ!!

[rpannier]

1. Is he denying he lost?

[Justice matters.]

2. Not yet.

[msongs]

4. he was blaming mcconnell for his loss (if he lost, hadnt been decided yet then)

said repubs wasted money on alaska instead of giving it to him

[SouthernDem4ever]

11. Actually I think they gave it all to Herschel Walker

They have been running lying stupid ads claiming warnock is to blame for the entire economy and walker would fix it ROFL what a bunch of stupid bullshit, but we have stupid people here in GA that believe that crap just because they saw it on TEEVEE. Raphael Warnock has done nothing but try to make things better and anyone with half a brain not up there ass would know that walker would just do whatever repugs or trump tell him to do since he has no cognitive thought of his own. He would just be sitting on his ass collecting a paycheck at the federal level, getting gold-plated benefits and end up with an undeserved pension no matter how worthless he is- but idiots here will still vote for him cause the orange lard ass endorsed him.

[Cha]

3. Haha.. Karma got his Stupid brainless ass.

I saw the winner, Adam Fontes, talk after his win.. and he was laying it out what Finchem was all about.

[MissMillie]

5. This makes me very happy

I understand how important it is that we keep control of congress, but winning these state offices is also important.


Keeping election deniers out of some of these state offices (especially Gov and SOS) is important to maintain election integrity.

[Kenneth Almquist]

6. This is the first year I contributed to a candidate running for Secretary of State

Actually two candidates: Adrian Fontes (Arizona) and Cisco Aguilar (Nevada).

[Tomconroy]

7. He was a nutter.

[msfiddlestix]

8. ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ n/t

[republianmushroom]

9. couldn't happen to a better person IMO

[sakabatou]

10. Good.