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For: Real America News
The former president Donald Trump landed in Arizona on Saturday for his first rally of the election year term, highlighting a state that will have hotly contested races for Governor and US Senate in November.
In the race for governor of Arizona, Trump endorsed Kari Lake,
Republicans vying to challenge Kelly include Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, solar energy executive Jim Lamon , venture capitalist Blake Masters, and retired Air Force Major General Michael “Mick” McGuire.
Democrats have won the last two Senate races in Arizona,
including the special election of 2020 when Kelly defeated former Sen. Martha McSally by 2.4 points. Kelly, a retired astronaut, is serving the remainder of the term of the late Arizona Senator John McCain and is due to run again this year for a full six-year term.
In his first political act of the year, Trump promised his supporters that the Republican Party will win the mid-term elections in November and “will take back the White House” in those of 2024 , but he did not specify if he himself will appear at that last appointment with the polls.
The former president was referring to the legislative elections in November of 2022, in which the Republicans intend to retake control of the Lower House and possibly the Senate, in addition to controlling many other state offices.
Arizona is one of the key states that Trump lost by a margin of just a few thousand votes in 2020, and did not hesitate to lie about it at all more to start the rally, assuring that he had “a tremendous victory” that was “snatched” from him in that territory.
On the assault on the Capitol
Trump had promised to expose in this rallies his ideas about the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, but focused on criticizing the committee investigating those facts, which he called “Stalinist”, and in alleging that among the crowd that broke into Congress there were “FBI informants”, a theory defended by his followers and on which there is no evidence.
Also described as “political prisoners” the more than 700 accused of crimes related to the assault on the Capitol, which resulted in five deaths and 140 wounded officers.
And with renewed attacks on President Joe Bide n and the Democratic Party, also resumed their complaints without evidence that there was fraud in the elections of 2020, which he lost.
“The real insurrection took place on election day, November 3,” Trump stressed.
Criticism of Biden
Trump lashed out at President Biden due to problems in the supply chain and inflation, the volume of infections caused by the omicron variant and its attempt to force the majority of workers in private companies in the country to be vaccinated, stopped by the Supreme Court this week.
“Radical Democrats, leave our children alone with their powerful immune system,” Trump cried.
Also stirred up fear regarding immigration, by hyperbolically assuring q that the border with Mexico “has been abolished” and “millions and millions and millions” of undocumented immigrants are entering the country, something false, since most of those who arrive are deported.
With information from EFE
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