All posts tagged "Andy Biggs"

A Trump-backed congressman overcame scandals and a McCain snub to coast to victory in a gubernatorial primary, per reports.

According to reporting by CNN and NBC News, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) won the GOP gubernatorial primary on Tuesday night with a huge margin of victory. He's set to face off against Democratic incumbent Katie Hobbs.

Biggs won despite a Washington Post report coming out the day before the primary that dug up his involvement in a decades-old legislative episode involving a polygamist sect accused of child sexual abuse. ...

President Donald Trump's influence was expected to be tested on Tuesday night as Arizona voters will decide whether MAGA-backed candidate Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) faces off in the Republican primary against Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) for governor — and an analyst revealed a stunning plot twist tied to late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

CNN anchor Erin Burnett talked to political commentator S. E. Cupp during a panel discussion about why this election primary was so significant.

"And there's a lot on the line for President Trump's endorsement tonight," Burnett said. "Because when it comes to governor's primaries, Trump has suffered two recent high profile losses. Those are in the primaries in Iowa and Georgia. Biggs' primary opponent is Republican Congressman David Schweikert, who has consistently won in one of Arizona's most competitive congressional districts. He argues that the party can't gamble with a MAGA taking on Democratic incumbent Gov. Katie Hobbs in the fall."...

About a dozen House Republicans were refusing to go along with the Senate's budget blueprint Wednesday that would give President Trump the "big beautiful bill" he has been wanting.

Trump tried to pressure Republicans to acquiesce by posting to social media Wednesday, writing, "It is IMPERATIVE that Republicans in the House pass the Tax Cut Bill, NOW! Our Country Will Boom!!!"

At issue are changes to the proposed spending cuts made by the Senate. ...

Disgraced and booted former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) called it a "win for America" that a fellow Republican is picking up where he left off.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) wrote Thursday evening on X that he was taking over Santos's legislation that aims to "revoke the security clearances of the 51 lying intelligence officials who claimed that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation."

"Congress MUST hold bad actors accountable," Biggs said....

A Republican lawmaker who weighed in to support Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the former president's recent multi-count felony conviction in New York got a brutal reminder from social media.

Congressman Andy Biggs, who was ordered to testify in front of a grand jury as Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, leads a probe into the historic events that followed the November 2020 election, took to social media on Friday to proclaim that Trump's criminal jury verdict was rigged from jump.

"Donald Trump’s trial was rigged from the start," he wrote. His statement came shortly after it was revealed that a comment left on the New York court system's Facebook page seemed to imply that the jury was corrupted. ...

WASHINGTON — Democrats are asking who’s the treasonous one now that pictures have surfaced of an upside American flag flying at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) — the Somali-born congresswoman who some Republicans have called “treasonous” and accused of being “a foreign agent” — is in disbelief that the GOP is defending Alito after his wife allegedly disrespected the American flag.

The upside-down flag that flew at the Alitos’ home in Virginia in the days after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was a well-known symbol of Donald Trump’s “stop the steal” effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. A separate “Appeal to Heaven” flag — a banner carried by some January 6 rioters — flew at the Alitos’ vacation home in New Jersey less than two weeks after the riot, the Associated Press reported....