In Arizona — one of the states that President-elect Joe Biden won — Republican Gov. Ducey is being slammed as a RINO by far-right Trump supporters for certifying the state’s 2020 election results and acknowledging Biden, not President Donald Trump, as the winner. Some Arizona Republicans are continuing to claim, without evidence, that Trump was robbed of a victory in that state by widespread voter fraud. And one source of pro-Trump conspiracy theories in Arizona, BuzzFeed reporter Paul McLeod notes, is the Arizona GOP’s Twitter account — where extremists are saying that they’re willing to die for Trump if necessary.
McLeod notes that when Twitter user @ali posted, “I am willing to give my life for this fight,” the Arizona GOP only encouraged such rhetoric — telling Arizona Republicans, “He is. Are you?”
The “fight” that @ali is referring to is Republican efforts to overturn the election results. Continue reading.