Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels says he doesn’t yet know what it will cost the department to help with security for Trump’s visit.
“When you have a former president of the United States and that's running for reelection again, that and the attention that draws, both positive and negative, obviously, is an increase in cost because it’s an increase in staffing,” he said. “And we knew that coming into it when they called us to ask to come here.”
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Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes says he will go to jail before he turns over voter data to the Department of Justice. And now, the DOJ is suing him for it. -
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President Donald Trump endorsed former Cardinals kicker Jay Feely for Congress on Tuesday, making him the second candidate Trump is supporting in the race. -
The Trump administration on Tuesday filed suit against Secretary of State Adrian Fontes for refusing to hand over voter registration and election records. -
Austin Smith, 30, pleaded guilty in mid-November to charges of attempted fraudulent schemes and practices, and illegal signing of election petitions. He had acknowledged trying to use petitions with forged signatures that he knew were false and forging a dead woman’s signature on a nominating petition.
