Trump ‘Treason Tour 2022’ Coming To Arizona For His Slate Of Sedition Party Candidates

The Arizona Republic, supposedly the paper of record for the state of Arizona, continues to treat this election as if it is just an ordinary election from a bygone era. “Wake the fuck up!” as Samuel L. Jackson would tell you.

I’ve hesitated to use the term “treason,” but @JoeNBC is using it exactly as the Constitution defines it in Article III, Clause 1:

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“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them . . .”

The insurrection levied War against the United States. https://t.co/AhGPRTA8ah

— Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) July 13, 2022

The lame-ass Arizona Republic reports, Trump coming to Arizona for rally in support of Kari Lake, Blake Masters and other GOP Sedition Party candidates:

Donald Trump is returning to the Grand Canyon State just two weeks ahead of the primary election to stump for his chosen candidates from U.S. Senate down the ballot to state legislative races.

The former president will hold a rally Saturday afternoon in Prescott Valley. An event announcement sent by his Save America political action committee said Trump would deliver “remarks in support of Kari Lake for Governor, Blake Masters for U.S. Senate, and the entire Arizona Trump Ticket.” [Sedition Party ticket.]

The 45th president will speak at roughly 4 p.m. at Findlay Toyota Center in Prescott Valley. As is routine at his rallies, a lineup of speakers will stoke the crowd beginning at 1 p.m.

You mean like the way Donald Trump “stoked the crowd” (armed mob) of his MAGA/QAnon cult followers on January 6 into a frenzy to march on the nation’s Capitol to engage in violent seditious insurrection with the intent of murdering Vice President Mike Pence and any Democratic representative they could get their hands on?

Trump has endorsed a candidate in every major race this cycle, including Masters, Lake, Mark Finchem for secretary of state and Abe Hamedeh for attorney general. He’s also put his support behind a handful of candidates for state legislature. The political power of Trump’s endorsements was tested in elections across the country this year, with mixed results.

Nearly two years after his election defeat, Trump continues as an influential force on some voters within the Republican party, many of whom adhere to his false claims the 2020 election was stolen. [Dead-ender losers.] His endorsed candidates have shown fealty to those claims, and some have paid handsomely for fundraisers with Trump at his Florida residence.

Only the dead-ender losers in the GQP still support this treasonous traitor. Half of G.O.P. Voters Ready to Leave Trump Behind, Poll Finds:

[A] New York Times/Siena College poll shows that his post-presidential quest to consolidate his support within the Republican Party has instead left him weakened, with nearly half the party’s primary voters seeking someone different for president in 2024 and a significant number vowing to abandon him if he wins the nomination.

By focusing on political payback inside his party instead of tending to wounds opened by his alarming attempts to cling to power after his 2020 defeat, Mr. Trump appears to have only deepened fault lines among Republicans during his yearlong revenge tour. A clear majority of primary voters under 35 years old, 64 percent, as well as 65 percent of those with at least a college degree — a leading indicator of political preferences inside the donor class — told pollsters they would vote against Mr. Trump in a presidential primary.

Mr. Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6, 2021, appears to have contributed to the decline in his standing, including among a small but important segment of Republicans who could form the base of his opposition in a potential primary contest. While 75 percent of primary voters said Mr. Trump was “just exercising his right to contest the election,” nearly one in five said he “went so far that he threatened American democracy.”

Overall, Mr. Trump maintains his primacy in the party: In a hypothetical matchup against five other potential Republican presidential rivals, 49 percent of primary voters said they would support him for a third nomination.

The greatest threat to usurp Mr. Trump within the party is Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who was the second choice with 25 percent and the only other contender with double-digit support. Among primary voters, Mr. DeSantis was the top choice of younger Republicans, those with a college degree and those who said they voted for President Biden in 2020.

Among those who voted for Mr. Trump in 2020, 44 percent said they had a very favorable opinion of Mr. DeSantis — similar to the 46 percent who said the same about Mr. Trump.

The survey suggests that Mr. Trump would not necessarily enter a primary with an insurmountable advantage over rivals like Mr. DeSantis.

[T]he Times/Siena poll suggested that the fears of many Republican elites about a Trump candidacy may be well-founded: Trump trails President Biden, 44 percent to 41 percent, in a hypothetical rematch of the 2020 contest, despite plummeting support for Mr. Biden, with voters nationwide giving him a perilously low 33 percent job-approval rating.

A growing anyone-but-Trump vote inside the party contributed to Mr. Trump’s deficit, with 16 percent of Republicans saying that if he were the nominee they would support Mr. Biden, would back a third-party candidate, wouldn’t vote at all or remained unsure what they would do. That compared to 8 percent of Democrats who said they would similarly abandon Mr. Biden in a matchup with Mr. Trump.

For Mr. Trump, bleeding that amount of Republican support would represent a sharp increase compared with the already troubling level of the party’s vote he shed during his last race.

“I don’t want the choice of having to look at (Trump) again. And if it comes, I’ll be hard pressed.”

via @JimSmall https://t.co/Qfplj7Stn2

— Arizona Mirror (@ArizonaMirror) July 12, 2022

The Republic continues:

Though the ex-president sought to wage war on the security of mail-in ballots [with his Big Lie], he has more recently set aside those concerns, encouraging people to vote early in support of Lake.

Though Lake filed legal paperwork in support of the Republican Party of Arizona’s effort to end mail-in voting, last week she encouraged Arizonans who received their ballots to “be sure you fill yours out and send it back or vote in person August 2!”

She is such a phony fraud, just like her “Dear Leader.”

.@KariLake and @RealMarkFinchem are already suggesting that they won't concede if they lose the GOP primary and are sounding the alarm about possible fraud in their elections without any evidence to back those claims up https://t.co/KFEg1XWTU9

— Jeremy Duda (@jeremyduda) July 12, 2022

It’s not only Republican candidates who seek to benefit from Trump’s visit, however. Even before details of the rally were officially confirmed, Katie Hobbs, the secretary of state and a Democratic candidate for governor, sent two fundraising pleas invoking both Lake and Trump’s forthcoming visit.

“We have a real opportunity to win this toss-up race, and Trump knows it — which is why he’s coming back to rally his base,” the Hobbs campaign email reads. “Your support will help us respond to whatever he and Kari Lake have planned.”