{"id":41627,"date":"2020-12-14T19:39:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=41627"},"modified":"2020-12-14T19:39:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:39:41","slug":"breaking-arizona-gop-electors-join-nevada-georgia-and-pennsylvania-in-casting-votes-for-president-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=41627","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Arizona GOP Electors Join Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania in Casting Votes for President Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Cassandra Fairbanks<br \/>\nGateway Pundit<\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-561971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0-11-600x406.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0-11-600x406.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0-11-1536x1038.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0-11.jpg 2000w\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Arizona\u2019s eleven Republican Presidential Electors have convened to cast their votes for President Donald to be reelected.<\/h3>\n<p>In doing so, Arizona became the fourth swing state casting procedural ballots for Trump while the states continue to be contested.<\/p>\n<div id=\"Top-ad\" class=\"sponsor Top\">\n<p class=\"ad-notice flipboard-remove\">Advertisement &#8211; story continues below<\/p>\n<div id=\"Top\" class=\"fixed-size\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=CassandraRules&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1338600278459727872&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2020%2F12%2Fbreaking-arizona-gop-electors-join-nevada-georgia-pennsylvania-casting-votes-president-donald-trump%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1338600278459727872\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona GOP said in a statement that \u201cas the legal proceedings arising from the November 3 presidential election continue to work their way through our nation\u2019s judicial system, the Arizona Republicans who pledged to choose President Trump and Vice President Pence in the Electoral College convened on December 14 to cast their votes and send them to Congress where they are to be opened and counted beginning on January 6.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOf course, there is precedent for our Republican electors meeting on December 14, even as the Democrat electors for Arizona also meet elsewhere,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cDemocrat electors pledged to John F. Kennedy convened in Hawaii in 1960, at the same time as Republican electors met, even though the Governor had certified Richard Nixon as the winner. In the end, Hawaii\u2019s electoral votes were awarded to President Kennedy, even though he did not win the state until 11 days after the electors cast their votes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The state party added that \u201cthe legitimacy and good sense of two sets of electors meeting on December 14 to cast competing votes for President and Vice President, with the conflict to be later sorted out by the courts and Congress, was pointed out by prominent Democrat lawyers Van Jones and Larry Lessing in an essay published last month on CNN.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=CassandraRules&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1338592046043447296&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2020%2F12%2Fbreaking-arizona-gop-electors-join-nevada-georgia-pennsylvania-casting-votes-president-donald-trump%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1338592046043447296\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven that the results in Arizona remain in doubt, with legal arguments still to be decided, just as the Democrat electors met in Hawaii in 1960 while awaiting a final resolution to the state\u2019s vote, so too the Republican electors have agreed to meet this year on December 14 as we await a final resolution of Arizona\u2019s 11 electoral votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican Party of Arizona Chairwoman Kelli Ward added that \u201cit is imperative that the proper electors are counted by Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Count Act (ECA) of 1887 says each chamber of Congress will separately decide which slate of \u2018dueling electors\u2019 to accept.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/12\/breaking-arizona-gop-electors-join-nevada-georgia-pennsylvania-casting-votes-president-donald-trump\/\">https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/12\/breaking-arizona-gop-electors-join-nevada-georgia-pennsylvania-casting-votes-president-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}