Fact Sheet: Election Deniers Wanted to Toss Arizona's Votes in 2020. Now They Want to Run the Elections.
Arizona Republicans just nominated four election deniers who wanted to overturn the state's 2020 vote to run the offices that oversee, certify, and defend its elections. Here's the record on Biggs, Kolodin, Petersen, and Lamb.
Last night, Arizona Republicans nominated four election deniers who wanted to overturn the state's 2020 vote to run the very offices that oversee, certify, and defend its elections — one more blockade in the same coordinated scheme to block the vote and hold onto power. The nominations come as Trump's Justice Department reopens a probe of the 2020 election it lost in Arizona, following an FBI seizure of election records in Fulton County, Georgia. In America, voters pick our leaders — not the other way around. Election deniers know they can't win a fair fight, and they're counting on voters to get discouraged and stay home. That's exactly why Trump and Republicans are so hell-bent on rigging the game before a single 2026 vote is cast. Arizona has seen this ticket before: in 2022, nominees Kari Lake, Blake Masters, and Mark Finchem ran on the same 2020 claims and lost every statewide race. We won't let them get away with it. Read more about the Arizona election deniers who won last night:
The Nominees
Congressman Andy Biggs won the Republican nomination for governor
A Trump-endorsed congressman and former House Freedom Caucus chairman, Biggs objected to counting Arizona's own electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021.
Biggs was subpoenaed in the state's fake electors investigation.
Biggs still refuses to say clearly that the 2020 result was legitimate.
As governor, Biggs would be responsible for signing off on Arizona's election results.
Alexander Kolodin, a state lawmaker and election attorney, won the Republican nomination for secretary of state
Kolodin filed the “Kraken” lawsuit that sought to disqualify every mail ballot Arizonans cast in 2020.
Kolodin represented the fake electors and Cyber Ninjas in court, and was sanctioned by the State Bar in 2023 for fraud claims filed without evidence.
At a forum in May, Kolodin said: “When people say it was stolen, I say it was stolen fair and square.”
Kolodin supports ending no-excuse mail voting, the method most Arizonans use, and if elected would administer the 2028 presidential election in the state.
Warren Petersen, state Senate president, won the Republican nomination for attorney general
Petersen claimed without evidence that the 2020 election was fraudulent.
Petersen co-chaired oversight of the Cyber Ninjas review of Maricopa County, which ultimately confirmed the 2020 result. In March, he gave the FBI the Cyber Ninjas review's records under a federal grand jury subpoena from Trump's Justice Department, then referred Arizona leaders to federal prosecutors after they asked what voter information he had shared.
If elected, Petersen would be responsible for litigating election-related claims.
Former Pinal County sheriff Mark Lamb won the Republican nomination in the deep-red 5th Congressional District
Lamb founded Protect America Now, a national sheriffs' coalition that partnered with True the Vote — the group behind the debunked “2000 Mules” film filled with fraud claims — to surveil ballot drop boxes and route fraud reports to a joint hotline.
Lamb told a 2022 True the Vote event he saw fraud in the 2020 election and wrote the group's “Sheriff's Toolkit” for policing elections.
Lamb said at an Arizona rally that “We will not let happen what happened in 2020.”
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