An Arizona grand jury has indicted 18 of Trump’s allies. This is a symbolic blow to a solidly Republican state now in the hands of Democrats. Some names on the list include Kelli Ward, former GOP head in Arizona, Rudy Giuliani, and Tyler Bowyer, one of Turning Points USA’s leaders.
The delay on these charges, to be timed during an election year four years after the alleged events, is highly suspect. This legal campaign against the GOP will further drain campaign coffers, but could also boost popularity in reaction. AP News says:
An Arizona grand jury’s indictment of 18 people who either posed as or helped organize a slate of electors falsely claiming that former President Donald Trump won the state in 2020 could help shape the landscape of challenges to the 2024 election.
The indictment issued Wednesday is part of a campaign to deter a repeat of 2020, when Trump and his Republican allies falsely claimed he won swing states, filed dozens of lawsuits unsuccessfully challenging Democrat Joe Biden’s victory and tried to get Congress to let Trump stay in power. That campaign culminated with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Also included is Christina Bobb, a Trump loyalist who was named senior counsel on election integrity at the RNC. The RNC’s approach for 2024 is two-fold: voter turnout and ballot security. The Washington Post says:
It is the fourth election interference case brought against Trump allies by state or county prosecutors but the first charges for Bobb, a lawyer and former judge advocate in the Marine Corps who worked as an executive secretary in the Department of Homeland Security while Trump was in office and then launched a second act as a correspondent for the conservative network One America News. She volunteered to help Trump’s legal team after the 2020 election and became an advocate for false claims of election fraud. While working for OAN, she heavily focused on a widely discredited post-election review of more than 2 million ballots cast in Arizona’s most populous county. Bobb later wrote a book, “Stealing Your Vote: The Inside Story of the 2020 Election and What It Means for 2024.”
Bobb has also been pulled into an unrelated federal probe of Trump’s allegedly illegal handling of classified documents after he left the White House. As a custodian of some of those records, Bobb signed a document swearing that she had been told that “a diligent search” was conducted of boxes of records shipped from the White House to Florida when Trump left office.
Democrats are doing everything in their power to make 2024 all about 2020 rather than Joe Biden’s horrific mismanagement of the American economy. By continuing to message about a collapsing world order, sclerotic economy, and porous border, conservatives have a chance to unseat Biden and restore constitutional government in America.
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