Abe Hamadeh has defeated Blake Masters in Arizona‘s 8th Congressional District Republican primary. A former Maricopa County prosecutor, Hamadeh narrowly lost the state’s 2022 Attorney General race by under 300 votes to Democrat Kris Mayes. In the 8th Congressional District, Hamadeh fought through a contentious primary to win by a few thousand votes over Masters.
Just days before the primary, former President Donald J. Trump endorsed both Hamadeh and Masters as the preferred MAGA movement candidates. Meanwhile, there were concerns that a last-minute surge by Trump-skeptical Arizona State House Speaker Ben Toma could result in an upset in the race.
In his endorsement of both candidates—posted to his Truth Social platform on Sunday—former President Trump said: “In Congress, we need a true Warrior who will work tirelessly with us to Grow our Economy, Stop Inflation, Secure our Border, End Migrant Crime, Support our Great Military/Vets, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment.”
Polling in the district suggested the primary would be a tight and hard-fought race, with both Hamadeh and Masters trading leads in several surveys. In the unofficial results as of publication, however, Hamadeh finished with 29.83 percent to Masters’s 25.32 percent. Toma came in a close third with 21.23, while former Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) finished in fourth place with 16.54 percent.
Abe Hamadeh has defeated Blake Masters in Arizona's 8th Congressional District Republican primary. A former Maricopa County prosecutor, Hamadeh narrowly lost the state's 2022 Attorney General race by under 300 votes to Democrat Kris Mayes. In the 8th Congressional District, Hamadeh fought through a contentious primary to win by a few thousand votes over Masters.
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Republican voters in Maricopa County, Arizona’s most populous county, ousted a top elections official, Stephen Richer, in the primary re-election bid for Maricopa County recorder. Richer, who had defended the state’s voting system against claims of election fraud in 2020, lost to State Representative Justin Heap. The results were confirmed early Wednesday.
The closely watched campaign highlighted the divide within Arizona’s Republican Party, pitting the Trump-aligned faction against establishment Republicans. The outcome may significantly impact voting procedures in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and its suburbs, and often influences the state’s political leaning.
As county recorder, Richer managed voter registration and mail-in voting, roles now controversial due to widespread election fraud. He positioned himself as a conservative who had enhanced transparency, improved voter roll accuracy, and strengthened verification procedures for voter signatures and ballot tracking. Richer was supported by former governors Jan Brewer and Doug Ducey, both Republicans.
However, Richer faced backlash from Republican voters for asserting that the 2020 election was not stolen from former President Donald Trump.
Heap will face Democrat Timothy Stringham, a military veteran, in the November general election.
Image by Gage Skidmore.
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Republican voters in Maricopa County, Arizona's most populous county, ousted a top elections official, Stephen Richer, in the primary re-election bid for Maricopa County recorder. Richer, who had defended the state's voting system against claims of election fraud in 2020, lost to State Representative Justin Heap. The results were confirmed early Wednesday.
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Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) may have aided the Chinese Communist state in developing high-altitude spy balloons. In 2012, the Democrat Senator co-founded the high-altitude balloon firm World View and sought investment from the Chinese-based technology conglomerate Tencent, which owns the spyware app WeChat. Kelly is currently under consideration to be KamalaHarris‘s running mate in the 2024 presidential election.
Tencent’s investment in Kelly‘s balloon company was facilitated by the future Arizona Senator in 2014 and again in 2016. New reports indicate that claims made by World View that the company had been cleared by the U.S. Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency (DCSA) are false—and the Kelly-founded balloon company’s business relations with Tencent and the Chinese defense industry did, in fact, raise national security concerns.
According to a report by Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics, the DCSA explicitly suspended the clearance approval process for Kelly’s company.
TOO CLOSE TO CHINA.
In 2023, a high-altitude Chinese spy balloon traversed U.S. airspace, traveling across Alaska, Canada, and the contiguous United States before being belatedly downed by the U.S. Air Force just off the coast of South Carolina. The incident was marked by further chilling in U.S.-China relations.
The Chinese spy balloon incident raises concerns about what sort of technology may have been shared by Mark Kelly’s World View company and Tencent—especially given the deep ties of the latter to Chinese defense and intelligence agencies. Chinese companies like Tencent have a reputation for using investment as a means of espionage, gaining access to foreign technology that is copied and replicated by domestic Chinese-state-aligned firms. World View may have contributed to the development of Chinese spy balloon technology through this process.
The Kelly-founded company’s subsequent attempts to obfuscate its relationship with Tencent only raises further concerns.
Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) may have aided the Chinese Communist state in developing high-altitude spy balloons. In 2012, the Democrat Senator co-founded the high-altitude balloon firm World View and sought investment from the Chinese-based technology conglomerate Tencent, which owns the spyware app WeChat. Kelly is currently under consideration to be KamalaHarris's running mate in the 2024 presidential election.
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Democratic election attorney and Russian collusion hoaxer Marc Elias is working to carve out a new avenue for backing candidates through ‘dark money‘-funded websites presenting as media outlets. Elias’s law firm is representing a liberal political website that claims to be a legitimate news outlet despite its primary content and activities more closely resembling a Super PAC.
The Morning Mirror, operated by Star Spangled Media, presents as a general-interest news blog that publishes a random assortment of stories without an author’s byline. However, as the 2024 election cycle kicked off, the blog began pushing stories touting certain Democratic candidates‘ records on abortion, with Star Spangled Media subsequently boosting these posts through digital advertising.
By claiming to be a for-profit media operation, however, Star Spangled Media can avoid standard campaign finance disclosures and could serve as a conduit for nearly untraceable Democratic ‘dark money.’
CAMPAIGN FINANCE QUESTIONS.
Star Spangled Media and The Morning Mirror’s partisan stories and digital ads are drawing scrutiny from Arizona‘s campaign finance regulator, the Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission. The commission is investigating whether the media network is really a political entity—such as a political action committee (PAC)—that should be subject to the state’s campaign finance disclosure laws. Elias’s law firm, representing Star Spangled Media, insists the operation is a journalistic endeavor, not a political one.
“Star Spangled Media is a for-profit media company that is in the business of publishing and distributing original news stories, commentaries, and editorials,” Jonathan S. Berkon, an attorney at the Elias Group, argued in a letter to the commission in late May. Berkon contends that the ads are paid for through for-profit revenue, meaning Star Spangled Media is not a “covered person” under the state’s campaign finance law.
Despite indications that Star Spangled Media is a PAC moonlighting as a media company, the election commission maintains that without additional information, it cannot determine whether the Democrat-aligned organization violated the state’s campaign finance laws. The commission contends “it is impossible… to determine whether its political articles—many of which appear to be generated by using campaign created media—go through the same process as its non-political articles.”
“Because the Commission cannot conclude the press exception applies, the Commission cannot conclude that Star Spangled Media is not a covered person and does not intend to engage in campaign media spending,” the Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission added, concluding: “Equally importantly, however, the Commission is not concluding the opposite—simply put more facts about Star Spangled Media’s internal operations and news presence in Arizona would be necessary for the Commission to reach a reasoned conclusion about whether the press exception applies.”
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Democratic election attorney and Russian collusion hoaxer Marc Elias is working to carve out a new avenue for backing candidates through 'dark money'-funded websites presenting as media outlets. Elias's law firm is representing a liberal political website that claims to be a legitimate news outlet despite its primary content and activities more closely resembling a Super PAC.
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Election worker Walter Ringfield Jr. was arrested for stealing keys and a security fob used to access voting tabulation machines in Maricopa County, Arizona. Ringfield, an Arizona State University political science graduate, is “a registered Democrat who ran for Senate this cycle as a Democrat,” according to Kari Lake advisor Caroline Wren. She cites local news reports showing Walter Ringfield Jr. running in this year’s Democratic Senate primary.
The Ringfield incident raises further suspicions about election security in Maricopa County. Maricopa officials insist their election processes are secure, but the fact Ringfield was able to lift crucial security equipment lying in the open on an abandoned desk suggests this is not the case.
After the gubernatorial contest between Kari Lake and Katie Hobbs, evidence emerged showing Maricopa officials verifying mail-in ballotswithout checking signatures, often from their private offices and homes, without election observers present.
The Arizona Senate has previously threatened the Maricopa County Board with contempt for failing to comply with an investigation into its election equipment.
This man somehow breached Maricopa County’s iron clad security operation by (checks notes) simply picking up highly sensitive security fobs off abandoned desks. https://t.co/zp9aOrQ7zYpic.twitter.com/jPqRtz3Ofp
The far-left MeidasTouch Network claims Ringfield is an “apparent Trump supporter.” The White House-linked group responsible for the bloodbath hoax against Donald Trump notes that someone has wiped all of Ringfield’s social media profiles, except for what they claim is his Truth Social account.
The @imjustheresoiwontbefined account has “reposts from pro-Trump MAGA accounts like The Epoch Times, Gateway Pundit, The Babylon Bee, and Catturd,” MeidasTouch asserts. However, Wren notes that “the header on [Ringfield’s] Truth Social account is literally a picture of him and [CNN analyst] Bakari Sellers.”
A post on the account shows Ringfield criticizing Trump for ending the Iran nuclear deal. Most of the account’s posts are short non-sequiturs such as “We are a nation built upon enslaved immigrants,” “BIPOC,” and “TERF you’re whack.”
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Election worker Walter Ringfield Jr. was arrested for stealing keys and a security fob used to access voting tabulation machines in Maricopa County, Arizona. Ringfield, an Arizona State University political science graduate, is "a registered Democrat who ran for Senate this cycle as a Democrat," according to Kari Lake advisor Caroline Wren. She cites local news reports showing Walter Ringfield Jr. running in this year's Democratic Senate primary.
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Over 300 election officials across five swing states have raised the alarm regarding ballot irregularities and election integrity in their jurisdictions. Officials in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, and Wisconsin have all cited instances raising concerns about voter registration practices, ballot counting, and chain of custody.
The far-left, Democrat-aligned non-profit Public Wise has accused 334 state and local officials of being election deniers and working to ‘undermine democracy.’ However, an examination of the actual claims being made by the state and local election officials reveals legitimate concerns about the security and integrity of the U.S. elections. In at least two of the jurisdictions listed by Public Wise, officials have correctly called into question well-documented election irregularities and potential illegalities.
FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA.
One of the officials listed by Public Wise is Georgia’s Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones (R), who opposed the certification of the 2024 presidential election results in Fulton County, Georgia. The National Pulse reported in May that an investigation by Georgia election officials found that Fulton County had implemented improper procedures during its 2020 presidential election recount.
The inquiry was prompted by a complaint lodged on July 8, 2022, alleging the inappropriate count of 17,852 ballots. Consequently, the investigation revealed not only duplicate ballot images—implying probable multiple scanning of some ballots—but also that thousands of ballot images are missing. In late May, Julie Adams, a Republican member of the FultonCounty, Georgia, Board of Elections, filed a lawsuit against the county’s election director, Nadine Williams, alleging she barred state officials from accessing critical election information during this year’s primary elections.
MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA.
In Arizona, another state that Public Wise claims is being nefariously influenced by conservative election officials, Maricopa County faces an ongoing lawsuit for continuing to violate state election law. The plaintiffs allege county officials failed to maintain the mandatory chain of custody for ballots, resulting in a discrepancy of over 25,000 votes. Razor-thin margins decided several 2022 state-wide races. The gubernatorial contest saw just 17,117 votes separate now-Governor Katie Hobbs (D) from Kari Lake (R).
NONCITIZENS IN NORTH CAROLINA.
Meanwhile, in North Carolina, the issue of noncitizen voters has even drawn federal attention, with Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys undertaking an extensive investigation into the occurrence, resulting in multiple prosecutions. The National Pulse reported federal prosecutors have brought charges against 37 noncitizens who voted in North Carolina’s 2016 election. By a three-to-one ratio, these individuals supported Democrats over Republican candidates.
The noncitizens cast 99 ballots in multiple elections dating back as far as 1996. Most of the noncitizen voters only participated in federal elections, with only a handful of ballots cast in local races.
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Over 300 election officials across five swing states have raised the alarm regarding ballot irregularities and election integrity in their jurisdictions. Officials in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, and Wisconsin have all cited instances raising concerns about voter registration practices, ballot counting, and chain of custody.
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A new survey by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) indicates former President Donald J. Trump holds significant leads over 81-year-old incumbent Joe Biden among likely voters in Arizona, particularly those aged 50 and older. In a five-way race involving third-party candidates, 45 percent of likely voters supported Trump, while just 37 percent backed Biden.
Among voters aged 50 and above, 49 percent favored Trump compared to 39 percent who supported Biden. In a direct head-to-head matchup, Trump maintains his advantage with 50 percent of likely adult voters backing him versus Biden’s 44 percent. In the same head-to-head contest, voters over 50 again preferred Trump, with 52 percent support, to Biden’s 43 percent.
The AARP poll further reveals that 58 percent of voters over age 50 disapprove of Biden‘s job performance, with only 41 percent expressing approval. In contrast, 55 percent of voters over 50 view Trump‘s job performance as president favorably, with 44 percent saying they disapproved.
Immigration and bordersecurity remains the foremost concern for 41 percent of voters aged 50 and above heading into the upcoming election. This issue surpasses concerns about inflation and rising prices, which stand at 28 percent, and threats to democracy, which stand at 27 percent.
In the 2020 presidential election, Biden narrowly won Arizona, defeating former President Trump by just over 20,000 votes. However, evidence of voting irregularities and potential fraud has led some to question the veracity of the election results. The National Pulse reported in April that a run-away grand jury handed down a bevy of indictments against allies of former President Trump who disputed the integrity of the state’s presidential election vote.
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A new survey by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) indicates former President Donald J. Trump holds significant leads over 81-year-old incumbent Joe Biden among likely voters in Arizona, particularly those aged 50 and older. In a five-way race involving third-party candidates, 45 percent of likely voters supported Trump, while just 37 percent backed Biden.
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Arizona Republicans are eyeing a ballot measure aimed at making illegalimmigration unlawful under state law. State Republican leaders hope the move will galvanize their base ahead of the November elections. Arizona Democrats, meanwhile, are pushing a ballot measure that would expand abortion rights in the state with the same aim of boosting their party base’s turnout.
The state Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on the proposal, which has already cleared the House and must secure the support of all 16 GOP senators to advance to the ballot. Inspired by Texas‘ SB 4 and Arizona’s own 2010 SB 1070, the measure, however, faces some opposition from within the Republican Party.
An amendment addressing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program recipients has divided GOP senators. State Sen. Ken Bennett (R) has voiced opposition due to its implications for DACA recipients, raising uncertainty about whether the Republicans have the necessary votes for passage.
If the measure advances, it could serve as a focal point to motivate Republican voter turnout, similar to how the anticipated ballot amendment on abortion rights is expected to energize Democratic voters. Republican political consultant Chuck Coughlin emphasized the strategic intent to tap into public frustration over immigration to drive dissatisfied voters to the polls. Democrats in the state legislature, however, are blasting the move.
“Republicans know they are losing on abortion, so they decided to at the last minute change the rules to put this incredibly egregious anti-immigrant ballot measure up for a vote to be sent to the voters,” state Representative Analise Hernandez (D) said in a post on the Chinese–controlled social media app, TikTok.
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Arizona Republicans are eyeing a ballot measure aimed at making illegalimmigration unlawful under state law. State Republican leaders hope the move will galvanize their base ahead of the November elections. Arizona Democrats, meanwhile, are pushing a ballot measure that would expand abortion rights in the state with the same aim of boosting their party base's turnout.
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New polling data seen exclusively by The National Pulse shows technology entrepreneur and former U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters pushing a double-digit lead over Abe Hamadeh in Arizona‘s 8th Congressional District Republican primary. The primary election, which has drawn a crowded field, will see voters head to the polls on July 30.
In January this year, polling from Trump-world pollster Fabrizio, Lee & Associates found Masters and Hamadeh in a tight race, tied at 24 percent. However, their new May poll shows Masters now well ahead at 28 percent to Hamadeh’s 16 percent.
The January survey found Masters’s favorability among Republican voters at 47 percent, while Hamadeh’s was 38 percent. Since then, Masters has increased his favorability to 56 percent, with just 24 percent holding an unfavorable view. Hamadeh, on the other hand, has seen his favorability drop to 34 percent, with 23 percent saying they view him unfavorably.
MASTERS ADS HIT HAMADEH.
Hamadeh’s decline in popularity may be directly tied to a series of political ads run by the Masters campaign that highlights the former Attorney General candidate’s support for a myriad of pet liberal issues. The ad alleges Hamadeh’s support for amnesty, the claim that his parents were illegalimmigrants, his ostensible support for abortion, and a strange claim allegedly made by Hamadeh that “America was founded on Islamic principles.”
“This poll shows voters see the truth clearly: I am the strongest candidate, the most MAGA candidate, and the strongest supporter of President Trump,” Blake Masters told The National Pulse. He continued: “This race is all about who’s going to have Trump’s back and actually stop illegalimmigration? And that is clearly me, not my opponent. We’re going to keep the pedal to the metal and finish this race strong.”
Among the other candidates, former Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) — who held the Arizona 8th Congressional District from 2003 to 2017 — sits just behind Hamadeh at 14 percent in May’s Fabrizio, Lee & Associates poll. Ben Toma, who was once considered a serious contender for the nomination, only musters eight percent support. With Masters now out to a healthy lead and former Rep. Franks gaining momentum, Hamadeh could soon slip into third place in the race with just two months before voters head to the polls.
“This race has changed over the past four months, as Masters has become the clear frontrunner,” said Tony Fabrizio, principal at Fabrizio, Lee & Associates.
Before entering politics, Masters was a close colleague of billionaire tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel. Masters served as the Thiel Foundation’s president and the chief operating officer for Thiel’s investment operation, Thiel Capital. Abe Hamadeh, meanwhile, was the 2022 Republican candidate for Arizona Attorney General and a former prosecutor in the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.
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Good morning.
Did you know that Abe Hamadeh supported Chuck Schumer’s amnesty and said America was founded on Islamic principles?
Dishonest Abe has not been telling the truth about himself and the patriots of #AZ08 are about to find out.
New polling data seen exclusively by The National Pulse shows technology entrepreneur and former U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters pushing a double-digit lead over Abe Hamadeh in Arizona's 8th Congressional District Republican primary. The primary election, which has drawn a crowded field, will see voters head to the polls on July 30.
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An Arizona grand jury that indicted 18 individuals, including major Republican figures and Trump allies, allegedly went rogue, aggressively charging individuals who even prosecutors said were not under investigation. A 58-page indictment was handed down by the panel in late April, listing charges against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, constitutional law professor John Eastman, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, attorney Jenna Ellis, Trump campaign advisor Boris Epshteyn, and campaign attorney Christina Bobb. Former President Donald J. Trump was named as an unindicted co-conspirator.
Despite narrow instructions from prosecutors, the Arizona grand jury engaged in an aggressive level of independence, which could hamper the ability of the state’s Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes to secure convictions. State prosecutors told Bobb and Ellis that neither was under investigation prior to the grand jury indictment. Additionally, at least one witness who testified before the panel said a group of jurors engaged in intense questioning that went far beyond the scope outlined by the prosecution.
“The State Grand Jury was given leeway to conduct an independent investigation, as it is entitled to do by law,” Richie Taylor, a spokesman for Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, said in a statement. He added: “I cannot confirm or deny the specifics of grand jury proceedings, and I will note that the investigation remains open and ongoing. I will have to decline to comment further.”
While grand juries can act independently of prosecutors, even broadening the scope of an investigation, it is unusual for them to indict individuals who have been told by the State that they are not under investigation. “It’s bad form and something I would never do as a prosecutor,” former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti told POLITICO in a recent interview.
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An Arizona grand jury that indicted 18 individuals, including major Republican figures and Trump allies, allegedly went rogue, aggressively charging individuals who even prosecutors said were not under investigation. A 58-page indictment was handed down by the panel in late April, listing charges against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, constitutional law professor John Eastman, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, attorney Jenna Ellis, Trump campaign advisor Boris Epshteyn, and campaign attorney Christina Bobb. Former President Donald J. Trump was named as an unindicted co-conspirator.
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