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PHOENIX: Arizona’s top election official, Katie Hobbs, said on Wednesday (November 18) that she faced increasing threats of violence over the outcome of the November 3 presidential election and blamed President Donald Trump for spreading misinformation to undermine the confidence in the results.
Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump in Arizona by more than 10,000 votes, according to Edison Research, one of the states in which he walked away from Trump to win the White House by securing 306 Electoral College votes to the president’s 232.
Trump has vented his anger on Twitter, making dubious allegations of voter fraud. While his efforts to challenge the results in courts across the country have so far failed almost entirely, opinion polls show that his complaints about a “rigged” election have political gain, and as many as half of Republicans in Trump believes them, according to a Reuters / Ipsos Poll.
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Hobbs, the Arizona secretary of state, called the threats directed at her family and staff “absolutely abhorrent,” but said they wouldn’t stop her from doing her job, which includes certifying the state’s election results.
“But there are those, including the president, members of Congress and other elected officials, who are perpetuating misinformation and encouraging others to mistrust the election results in a way that violates the oath of office they assumed,” Hobbs said. it’s a statement. .
“It is time for them to stop. Their words and actions have consequences,” he said.
He did not give details about the types of threats he had received.
Spurred on by his false claims of fraud, thousands of Trump supporters have joined rallies across the country, including in Washington on Saturday, to protest Biden’s victory.
Several far-right groups and militiamen, such as the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters, have joined similar protests in Arizona, some armed with semi-automatic weapons.
Election officials from both parties across the United States have said there was no evidence of vote rigging, and a federal review reached the same conclusion. Biden also leads the national popular vote by more than 5.8 million votes.
