Trump renews false election fraud claims in Arizona while boosting Biggs

President Donald Trump used a Wednesday rally in Bullhead City, Arizona, to repeat unfounded assertions that the state's 2022 governor's race was rigged, directing the claim at Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. He was there to support Andy Biggs, the Republican challenger, with the Nov. 3 midterms less than three weeks away. Trump suggested that voting machine failures in Maricopa County were intentional and hurt Republicans, costing Kari Lake the contest. He also said Lake probably won her 2024 Senate race, though he never spoke her name, according to MS NOW.

Investigations and court decisions found printer glitches on Election Day 2022 but no sign they were deliberate or altered the result, and Lake's legal challenges went nowhere. Biggs, who once led the House Freedom Caucus, voted against certifying Arizona's 2020 electoral votes and backed a suit aimed at voiding results in states Biden carried, yet has lately pushed back on being labeled an election denier. Alexander Kolodin and Warren Petersen, the party's picks for secretary of state and attorney general, also disputed the 2020 outcome.

Barack Obama endorsed Hobbs a day earlier. MS NOW's polling partner FiftyPlusOne puts her ahead of Biggs, 49% to 40.8%.

Summarized by PolitiKool from MS NOW’s reporting. Read the full story at MS NOW →