BREAKING: Democrat Adrian Fontes has won the Arizona secretary of state race, defeating a Republican who attended the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the riots at the U.S. Capitol and said he would not have certified Democrat Joe Biden’s win in Arizona.
Fontes, who formerly oversaw parts of the election system in Arizona’s most populous county, had said Republican Mark Finchem represented a danger to democracy if he had won. The secretary of state, working with the governor and attorney general, hasFinchem had emerged as one of the most prominent
positions around the country who falsely claimed that Biden was not elected legitimately. He had argued for significant changes to Arizona’s elections after Biden won the state in 2020 and had been endorsed by Trump.After winning the state’s primary election in August, Finchem said he wanted to restore the rule of law to elections in the state, declaring: “Right now, we have lawlessness.”
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