Buckle up: Arizona Republicans to show 2020 recount results
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An unprecedented partisan review -- focused on the vote count in Arizona's largest county, Maricopa -- is led and funded largely by people who already believe that Donald Trump was the true winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, despite dozens of lawsuits and extraordinary scrutiny that found no problems that could change the outcome.
Nearly every allegation made by the review team so far has crumbled under scrutiny. Election officials in Arizona and around the country expect more of the same Friday from the review team they say is biased, incompetent and chasing absurd or disproven conspiracy theories.
"Every time Trump and his supporters have been given a forum to prove this case, they have swung and missed," said Ben Ginsberg, a longtime Republican election attorney and vocal critic of Trump's push to overturn the election.
The unprecedented partisan review -- focused on the vote count in Arizona's largest county, Maricopa -- is led and funded largely by people who already believe that Trump was the true winner, despite dozens of lawsuits and extraordinary scrutiny that found no problems that could change the outcome. They've ignored the detailed vote-counting procedures in Arizona law.
Despite being widely mocked, the Arizona review has become a model that Trump supporters are eagerly pushing to replicate in other swing states where Biden won. Pennsylvania's Democratic attorney general sued Thursday to block a GOP-issued subpoena for a wide array of election materials. In Wisconsin, a retired conservative state Supreme Court justice is leading a Republican-ordered investigation into the 2020 election, and this week threatened to subpoena election officials who don't comply.
