AZ-SOS: Election deniers have their sights on Arizona's secretary of state--again
Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes won the 2022 race to become Arizona’s top elections official by defeating an election denier, and now he may have to run against another one this fall.
NextGen Polling shows state Rep. Alex Kolodin, a member of the state’s affiliate of the nihilistic Freedom Caucus, with a wide 44-20 lead over Gina Swoboda, a former state GOP chair who has frequently clashed with far-right figures, in next week’s Republican primary.
Kolodin attracted attention shortly after the 2020 election when he filed an unsuccessful lawsuit aimed at overturning Joe Biden’s victory in the state. Kolodin, who went on to provide legal representation for a slate of fake Donald Trump electors, was ultimately sanctioned by the state bar in 2023 as part of a settlement that required him to admit he’d violated ethics rules.
That punishment, though, by no means diminished Kolodin’s influence in state GOP politics.
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