Arizona Republicans passed resolutions on Saturday to censure three of the state’s most prominent party leaders who have found themselves at odds with former President Trump: Gov. Doug Ducey; former Sen. Jeff Flake; and Cindy McCain, widow of the longtime Sen. John McCain.
The sweeping – yet essentially symbolic – rebuke took place during a meeting to figure out how to move forward after the state flipped blue in November, narrowly giving its 11 electoral votes to now President Joe Biden.
McCain and Flake, both of whom endorsed Biden for president, were censured for their outspoken opposition to Trump and for their support of globalist interests, according to state GOP members.
In condemning Ducey, the party cited the governor’s decision to enact emergency orders during the pandemic that the committee said are unconstitutional and “restrict personal liberties.”
Much of the meeting, held indoors at Dream City Church in Phoenix, was largely a pep rally for state Republicans who support the former president and his baseless claims of election fraud.
State Republicans also reelected party chair Kelli Ward, an unwavering Trump supporter who had challenged the state’s election results in a lawsuit that was rejected for insufficient evidence of fraud.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Ward called herself a “Trump Republican,” who will “always put America first, who believes in faith, family and freedom.”
“Yes, I will be radical about those things because those are the things that keep this country great,” she said.
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Rep. David Schweikert tried to rally Republicans to stop being disheartened by the election results and to continue voting in future elections. Before the pandemic hit, he said, conservative principles worked. “The poor were getting less poor. Prosperity was spreading,” he said.
“The Democrats are doing everything they can to erase the fact that we delivered good things for Americans; they delivered darkness,” Schweikert added. “We cannot let them. We are going to shine the light on them.”
Rep. Paul Gosar spent much of his time arguing that various voting machines used in the November elections were susceptible to hacking. Gosar was one of the Republicans who challenged the certification of electoral votes on Jan. 6, moments before the U.S. Capitol was breached and overrun by Trump supporters.
Speakers also dismissed the idea that silencing Donald Trump will stop the momentum of the 74 million Americans who voted for him. “We will not cede the battlefield to Marxist totalitarians who want to destroy this country,” Rep. Andy Biggs told the mostly maskless crowd, which responded with raucous applause. “They want to abrogate your rights and destroy the Constitution of the United States. They want to take away your right to worship. They want to fight us and destroy us.”
Both Gosar and Biggs have been criticized by liberal groups for their role in allegedly inciting the Capitol riot.
In response to the censure, Gov. Ducey’s political director Sara Mueller said in a statement, “These resolutions are of no consequence whatsoever, and the people behind them have lost whatever little moral authority they may have once had.”
Likewise, McCain was unfazed by the vote.
“It is a high honor to be included in a group of Arizonans who have served our state and our nation so well…and who, like my late husband John, have been censured by the AZGOP,” she wrote on Twitter. “I’ll wear this as a badge of honor.”
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Cindy McCain is a disgrace, just like her husband John. Flake is a joke and a phony, who ran as a Conservative and then once in office, Flake was nothing but a liberal Democrat, like the traitor John McCain. The above mentioned people are all snakes!
When will democrats stop sending dead politicians wives to congress?
Remember Mel Carnahan from Missouri? They elected a dead man (really) and sent his wife to vote as she was told too.
True, but this censure, is just window dressing.. IMO IT does not do enough.
And like Drill wonders, WHY IS IT the wives of dead congress critters, get to SERVE, when their husbands die?? WHY SHOULDN’T they go immediately to a special election? SO THE VOTERS GET TO DECIDE!
The Dishonorable, Dishonest Democrat Party and its RINOs have become our country’s most deadliest ENEMY.
John 14:1
1 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
GWBush fits in fine with this slime…..
ALL the bush clan are in bed with those slime…
For those who don’t know, the “me” in the passage is our Lord Jesus Christ speaking.
Headline: Emotionally out of control McCain trips on a switch and cuts loose cannonade of deadly missiles on the deck of the ship he was assigned to protect, taking out loyal shipmates as well as the Captain of the Ship of state. No, That wasn’t John, but his trophy wife Cindy who thinks she is entitled to the trophies earned by others who won it in honor and cold accomplishment in reason, not purchased in the heat of emotion nor hot money or family position.
As for Ducey and flake, they are just the RINO dandruff who sought to top in hate, the pate of a Trump Presidency that proved to be “Head and Shoulders” above their transplanted loyalties, now deeply drilled and embedded among Joe Biden’s own too deeply drilled transplanted hairs whose scars also now cut off most of the circulation of blood and oxygen designed to feed their brains. If the party was the baby that King Solomon was asked to decide the proper mother of, these are the imposter moms who would rather see it cut in half, than to go to the legitimate one that gave it life.
Arizona GOP Censures Cindy McCain, Doug Ducey and Jeff Flake
Is that like putting them on double secret probabtion ?
Arizona throw them the hell out !!
PITY with the left IMPORTING THOUSANDS of commucrats from commiefornia and other leftists hell hole cities, i fear the entire state will go blue in 2-4 more years..
“Much of the meeting, held indoors at Dream City Church in Phoenix, was largely a pep rally for state Republicans who support the former president and his baseless claims of election fraud.”
Besides being written poorly enough that a bum like me might notice, this statement is a non-truth. The claim that the election was anything resembling legal is baseless.
NPR. What a joke!
“US Capitol breached and overrun by Trump supporters”, leftist clap trap, Antifa was the
agitators and violent thugs at the Capitol intermingled with people who tried to stop
them. Capitol police opened doors for them and helped in the staging in order to
create the false impression of a protest becoming a riot. The fiasco was planned way
before the large peaceful demonstration of hundreds of thousands of patriotic Americans.
Donald Trump won the election and now we have to fight back against China Biden.
William
COMMENTBoth Gosar and Biggs have been criticized by liberal groups for their role in allegedly inciting the Capitol riot.
interesting…
3 living/viable brain cells would have pointed DIRECTLY AT PELOSI AND SCHUMER.
antifa/blm had already planned the entire assault BEFORE because they dressed up in MAGA clothing, and lead the charge when ordered to do so.
The TRIGGER Was when the 2 houses split to discuss the election challenges.
It was DESIGNED TO CAUSE FEAR IN THE ‘POLITICAL EMPLOYEES’ also know as representatives and senators.
The PLAN was successful.