Mothers, don’t let them make us mask our children again.” “They’re about to push more COVID restrictions on us,” she warned the maskless crowd.
Lake drew repeated applause as she urged rallygoers to ignore traditional media - “Turn it off,” she said - and bashed COVID-19 restrictions. The legislation, she said, saved "so many babies' lives." She was the sponsor of a bill that required women seeking an abortion to first view an ultrasound and listen to the heartbeat of their fetus. “I am running for governor because I am pro-life,” she said. Yee promised fair elections and touted her anti-abortion stance as a state lawmaker. In 2002, he lost a three-way race for the seat, with Democrat Janet Napolitano besting him and an independent candidate. House of Representatives, where he served three terms in the late 1990s and then another two terms from 2013-2017. Salmon touted his credentials as the founder of the Republican Freedom Caucus in the U.S. The Arizona legislation has no expiration date. Supreme Court upheld the Arizona law that bans people from returning others' ballots, unless that person is a relative or a caretaker. Salmon said if elected, he would make a ban on ballot harvesting permanent. Now, he said, “There are 1 million Republicans in our state who believe the 2020 election was rigged.” In the wake of his loss, Gaynor said he told the “Arizona swamp” that election reform was needed, but no one listened. There has been no evidence of fraud in that election. He noted he was leading by 40,000 votes on election night, but by the time ballot counting ended two weeks later, he had lost by 20,000 votes. Gaynor, who lost the 2018 race for secretary of state to Democrat Katie Hobbs, suggested that the contest was an early warning sign of election mischief. Follow Arizona politics? Our reporters stay on top of it all.