The Arizona Republican Party, in an early action Saturday, passed resolutions censoring the governor. Doug Ducey
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Public toilets, which are largely symbolic, came after McCain and Flake endorsed President Biden in the 2020 election. The party cited Ducey’s coronavirus restrictions as the reason for its censorship.
The Republic of Arizona reported that the resolution to convict Ducey argued its emergency safety rules “restrict personal liberties and enforce unconstitutional edicts.”
Meanwhile, the party at its state meeting argued Saturday that McCain “has supported globalist policies and candidates” and “condemned.” President Trump
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The state GOP said Flake “condemned the Republican party, rejected populism and rejected the interests of the American people over globalist interests,” adding that Flake should join the Democratic party.
When contacted by The Hill, Flake repeated a statement broadcast on Twitter earlier this month, when censorship resolutions were first announced: “If the support of the president’s behavior is required to stay in the good graces of the party, I’m fine to be out of the game.
After Sunday’s party vote, Flake tweeted a photo of himself posing with McCain and Ducey at Biden’s inauguration this week, along with the text “Good Company”.
Good company pic.twitter.com/1pdgVGE5Ps
– Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) January 24, 2021
Biden won the state of Arizona in the 2020 election to Trump, the first time a Democrat has done so in more than 20 years. Biden led Maricopa County, the most populous area in the state, over the Republican headline in a victory that helped him win.
McCain and his family members have been critical of Trump in the past and the late senator caught the former president’s wrath when he served in the Senate.
Cindy McCain honored her late husband’s friendship with Biden during a video aired during the Democratic National Convention in August 2020. Both her husband and Biden’s son Beau died in the same way. of brain cancer.
Flake, who retired from the Senate in 2019, previously slashed a political ad for Biden ahead of the election stating that to occupy the high office, “character matters.”
Sara Mueller, Ducey’s political director, said in a statement to The Hill that she believed censorship would carry little weight.
“These resolutions have no consequences whatsoever and the people behind them have lost the little moral authority they would have ever had,” he said.
The McCain Institute did not immediately respond to requests for comments from The Hill.
However, shortly after the Arizona Republican Party’s resolution was passed, McCain tweeted that he carries censorship as a “badge of honor.”
“It’s a great honor to be included in a group of Arizona people who have served our state and our nation so well … and who, like my late husband John, have been censored by the AZGOP. Badge of Honor “, he said.
It is a great honor to be included in a group of Arizonans who have served our state and our nation so well … and who, like my late husband John, have been censored by AZGOP. I will wear it as a badge of honor.
– Cindy McCain (@cindymccain) January 24, 2021
The Arizona Republican Party also did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for additional comments on the votes.
The censorship came toward the end of the Arizona Republican Party’s seven-hour meeting, at which the party also voted to re-elect Kelli Ward for another two-year term as president of the organization after she made a recorded phone call from Trump giving her support, according to The New York Times.
The Arizona Republican Party, after the 2020 election, repeated claims of electoral fraud in the state, although they were later discussed by local courts, and Ward and other Arizona Republicans have increasingly aligned themselves. more with Trump.
Updated at 10:12 p.m.