Arizona’s highest ranking officials certified the results of the 2024 election at the Arizona Capitol on Monday, noting that Republican’s quiet acceptance of results is in stark contrast to the election denialism that took place in 2020 and 2022.
This year, Republicans won almost every key race in Arizona from the top of the ticket down to county-level races, with the exception of the U.S. Senate race.
Winners include President-elect Donald Trump, who tried to pressure former Republican Gov. Doug Ducey to give him a win in 2020, although he had lost Arizona.
Republicans aren’t sounding the alarm over unfounded allegations of fraud.
“We seem to have done a pretty doggone good job this time around. I think the age of election denialism is for all intents and purposes dead,” said Arizona’s chief elections official, Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes.
But Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes said she doesn’t think we’re back to a pre-2020 attitude towards elections yet.
“Do I think election denialism is dead? No, I don’t,” Mayes said.
Mayes says the goal is to get back to where Arizona used to be, before election denialism spread over the past few election cycles. She says that it’s possible, but only time will tell.
“Whether you agree with the election results or not, our elections are conducted in a fair, secure and accurate manner and you know all of the leadup to potentially challenging the election that we saw from one side in the presidential race went away as soon as the results were what people wanted,” Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs said.
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