{"id":40534,"date":"2020-12-08T15:37:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T19:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=40534"},"modified":"2020-12-08T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T19:37:12","slug":"arizona-is-now-an-officially-contested-election-according-to-az-legislators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=40534","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Is Now an Officially Contested Election According to AZ Legislators"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Rep. Daniel McCarthy Announces Arizona Legislators Invoked Article 2, Section 1 \u2013 Meaning Arizona is Officially a Contested Election<\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->By Jim Hoft<br \/>\nGateway Pundit<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-560635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mccarthy-az-contested.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"296\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mccarthy-az-contested.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Arizona Republicans on Monday called for the decertification of their state\u2019s false election results.<\/p>\n<p>As Cristina Laila\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/12\/republican-arizona-legislators-call-decertification-false-election-results-video\/\">reported<\/a> \u2014 last week Arizona Rep. Mark Finchem issued a call to withhold the state\u2019s Electoral College votes for Joe Biden because \u201che believes there is enough significant evidence of fraud to invalidate the state\u2019s votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finchem also blasted Doug Ducey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe Doug Ducey signed a fraudulent document and he knew it!,\u201d Finchem said.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona House Majority Leader Warren Petersen released a statement Sunday night ahead of Monday\u2019s press conference: \u201cThe election should not have been certified with the number of irregularities and allegations of fraud. Especially troubling to me are the allegations surrounding the vendor Dominion,\u201d Petersen said in the press release. \u201cIt is imperative that a forensic audit occur immediately of the equipment and software. Upon any showing of fraud the legislature should immediately convene to decertify the vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"cnx-resize-triggers\">\n<div class=\"cnx-expand-trigger\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cnx-ad-container cnx-full-height\">\n<div class=\"cnx-full-height\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>On Monday Rep. Daniel McCarthy (R-) told the patriotic crowd that legislators invoked Article 2, Section 1 meaning \u2014 Arizona is officially a contested election!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"IC1-ad\" class=\"sponsor IC1\">\n<div id=\"IC1\" 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=gatewaypundit&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1336157992505335810&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2020%2F12%2Frep-daniel-mccarthy-announces-arizona-legislators-invoked-article-2-section-1-meaning-arizona-officially-contested-election%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1336157992505335810\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightjournalism.com\/video-gop-rep-mccarthy-claims-that-he-has-a-signed-letter-from-arizona-legislators-invoking-article-2-section-1-of-the-united-states-constitution-which-means-that-we-have-a-contested-outcome-in-ar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Right Journalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"QS1vXmnxgS\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightjournalism.com\/video-gop-rep-mccarthy-claims-that-he-has-a-signed-letter-from-arizona-legislators-invoking-article-2-section-1-of-the-united-states-constitution-which-means-that-we-have-a-contested-outcome-in-ar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video: GOP Rep. McCarthy Claims That He Has A Signed Letter From Arizona Legislators Invoking Article 2, Section 1 Of The United States Constitution Which Means That We Have A Contested Outcome In Arizona<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>__<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/12\/rep-daniel-mccarthy-announces-arizona-legislators-invoked-article-2-section-1-meaning-arizona-officially-contested-election\/\">https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/12\/rep-daniel-mccarthy-announces-arizona-legislators-invoked-article-2-section-1-meaning-arizona-officially-contested-election\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Daniel McCarthy Announces Arizona Legislators Invoked Article 2, Section 1 \u2013 Meaning Arizona is Officially a Contested Election<\/p>\n","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-40534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}