Republicans draw inspiration from problem-plagued Arizona audit
CNN
Arizona's problem-ridden audit has inspired Republicans elsewhere to push for reviews in their own states as the party continues to hold up former President Donald Trump's lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Members of the party are making political pilgrimages to the state. This week, a small group of Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers visited Arizona's auditors and the state senators who commissioned the review of the 2.1 million ballots cast in last year's election in Maricopa County. Two Trump allies, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Matt Gaetz of Florida, recently held a rally there. And Michael Flynn, Trump's short-lived national security adviser who has long embraced a host of pro-Trump conspiracy theories and last weekend appeared to tout a military coup to restore Trump to power, has produced a movie at the Arizona audit site alleging fraud along with Trump supporter Patrick Byrne.President Joe Biden on Sunday delivers his first commencement address of the 2024 season at Morehouse College, where the president may for the first time in months have to confront the angst that’s been percolating on college campuses nationwide toward his administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.