Phoenix (AP) – Arizona Govt. Doug Ducie didn’t try to provoke Donald Trump’s presidency much longer to confront the president or his enthusiastic defenders. It’s almost done by that.
But while state law required Ducey to certify the results of Arizona’s presidential election and sign up to Trump’s defeat last week, four years of loyalty to the president was not enough. “Republicans will remember for a long time!” Trump tweeted angrily at the governor.
Since then, the episode has been embroiled in a publicly and politically damaging controversy between Ducie and influential Trump loyalists in his own party. Those who believe Trump’s blatant claims of fraud and support his efforts to undermine the will of the electorate say Ducie betrayed his party. His defenders have dismissed critics as “nuts.”
This discrepancy could be a preview of the lasting political impact of Trump’s campaign to thwart election results. As the President’s baseless claims many G.O.P. As voters gain connections, Republican incumbents will be asked to take sides – either supporting Trump or acknowledging the fact that Biden won the election without any proven claims of widespread fraud. Their choices can have long-term consequences for their own political futures.
The Republican political adviser and adviser to past governors, Doug’s Doge Cole, said he was bidding heavily for the Senate or the White House.
Ducey is one of two GOP governors who have reacted to Trump after certifying Biden’s victory in their states. Georgia’s G.O.P. Governav. Brian Kemp also signed on to Trump’s loss and refused to support Trump’s efforts to overturn the results. In response to which Trump has struck a blow.
But many other G.O.P. Governors and legislators have considered questions about whether Biden is the winner, with some suggesting they wait until Jan. 6, when Congress is to approve the Electoral College College vote.
It didn’t take long for Ducy to find himself at the center of a cult. Trump called Ducie as he was preparing to sign a certificate of Arizona election results in front of a television camera. The governor quickly pulled his phone out of his suit jacket as the president played the national anthem, “salute for salute,” calmed him down and placed him on the table. He later returned a call from Trump but reporters declined to comment on what they discussed.
Hours later, Trump launched his own tirade against Ducie on Twitter, which looks set to open the floodgates for his staunch supporters.
Kerry Ward, Arizona’s Republican Party firebrand chair, said she was “disliked” by Ducie and addressed her on Twitter, meaning “stop the hell.”
Ducie applauded at a press conference: “Emotional reciprocity … practice what you preach.”
Ducie’s advisers took to Twitter to criticize the governor’s critics. His chief staff, Daniel Scorpinato, called Reese. Called Andy Biggs, an Arizona Republican who leads the Rouge Freedom Caucus, “Almond” and “Permanent Resident of Crazytown.” Kirk Adams, Ducy’s former chief of staff, asked the state legislator, who is pushing to overturn the election results, “Have you considered a consultation?” It can help. ”
On Wednesday, Biggs announced the online op-ed ad, “Government. Ducie has hurt the Republican Party’s cause. “
Republican political adviser Barrett Merson doesn’t think the Rs. Ducie’s problem with support will persist.
“Donald Trump’s tweets come and go,” said Merson, who previously worked with the Ducy’s Political Action Committee for the selection of Republican legislators. The governor has been a supporter of the president’s agenda, his economic policies and the front. This one swing will not further that relationship. ”
After avoiding Trump during the 2016 campaign, even when Ducie came to greet him, Trump’s policies were problematic for Ducie’s associates in the Arizona business community. While Trump will focus on closing the southern border, a potentially disastrous move in a state with strong economic ties with Mexico, Ducie backed him.
And as Arizona became the main swing state in the 2020 race, and with Trump making frequent visits, Ducie was always praising him. The president administered Ducy’s coronavirus, which he described as a model for other states.
But he warned just days before the election that his support would only go so far.
“Are we doing well? Are we doing well? “I would be so angry with you if I didn’t get there,” Trump said at a rally in Bullhead City.
Since Biden’s narrow victory in Arizona, the Duchess has never trusted conspiracy theories accusing the president, his lawyers and colleagues of fraud. Still, he waited three weeks before accepting Biden’s victory, which he did only when he was repeatedly pressured by an interviewer. He has challenged those questioning the election results to present their evidence in court.
Ducie’s stance from the foundations of his party began earlier this year when he ordered businesses to close to protect the hospital’s capacity and protective gear as the spread of coronavirus intensified. But he has so far maintained strong presidential support.
Restricted by the limitation of running for re-election for governor, Ducie faces crossroads in his political future. Arizona observers have long speculated what he wants to do next. Trump’s loss deprives him of the opportunity to take an administration job in Washington.
He could run for the U.S. Senate against newly elected Democrat Mark Kelly, but his relationship with Trump remains strained, especially if he faces the primary challenge from almost the right.
“In the short term, we know that when the president slanders someone … a group of Republicans come out that, wherever the president goes, they will go,” said Phoenix Polster, a political adviser to the former GOP. Said Mike Noble. “The question will be whether those people are sticking to it.”
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