Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives have introduced a resolution that would seek to declare former President Donald Trump the winner of the 2024 presidential election — regardless of what the voters decide, reported KPNX's Brahm Resnik.
The resolution would not carry any force of law because it is not a bill, noted Resnik.
However, it is in response to rulings in Colorado and Maine disqualifying the former president from the ballot under the Insurrection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. It will be reviewed by the House Election Committee Wednesday.
According to Resnik, the resolution advocates "to change the manner of the presidential election by appointing the eleven presidential electors to the republican primary winner to offset the removal of a republican candidate in Colorado and Maine," and "that Governor Hobbs sign the election reform measures listed below, and if not, the presidential electors be appointed to protect the 2024 presidential election from another maladministered and illegally run election."
There is no evidence that the 2020 presidential election in Arizona was rigged or otherwise "illegally run."
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Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case reviewing whether states have the power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment to disqualify presidential candidates in the manner Colorado and Maine did.
Most of the justices appeared uncomfortable with the idea of states constitutionally disqualifying presidential candidates, and are widely expected by legal observers to overturn those decisions.
