A posting on Twitter from the Arizona Republican Party on Dec. 14, 2020, showed the Republican electors meeting to cast their votes for Donald Trump, falsely claiming they were the state’s true electors.
Opinion: The U.S. Senate candidate and 10 other GOP members were part of a scheme to stage a coup to keep Donald Trump in office.
By EJ Montini | Arizona Republic
Whatever Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Lamon claims to be, he was not a duly elected and qualified elector from Arizona in the last presidential election.
Over the weekend Lamon tried to play down the fact that he and 10 other Arizona Republicans, including state party chair Kelli Ward, filed paperwork after the election falsely claiming to be the “duly elected and qualified electors” from Arizona.
Essentially, it was a scheme cooked up by GOP operatives to subvert the constitutional work of the Electoral College, overturn the outcome of a properly certified election and, in essence, stage a coup that would have kept Donald Trump in office.
Republicans from several other states did the same thing.
Arizona’s false electors didn’t hedge their bets
Some of them in other states, however, hedged their bets, saying their claim of being the proper electors was only valid if the results of the election were overturned.
The Arizonans were more direct, saying they represented the state’s vote in the Electoral College.
They did not.
“The Republican electors put forth a valid document that said, in the event that the election certification was overturned, there would be no excuse not to recognize those electors,” Lamon said during an interview that aired Sunday on KTVK-TV’s “Politics Unplugged” program.
Actually, no.
Lamon and the others claimed to be the real deal.
Was it a publicity stunt or traitorous?
