For our fourth episode of The Ground Game Pod, we brought on someone who knows a bit about running elections under some trying circumstances, Maricopa County recorder Stephen Richer. The longtime conservative Republican stood up to death threats, political attacks and more for years after 2020 as he told the truth: the 2020 Arizona results were not rigged. A loss is a loss.
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Show Notes:
Getting triggered by Da Bears
Coming to the realization certain activists were not acting in good faith with their election lies
Why Trump may think Richer “stole” from him again … by nabbing the 60 Minutes slot which had been planned for Trump, but Trump backed out of.
Fighting the uphill battle to show voters how voting works and battle Trump team lies, “The bigger the lie, the more it serves as a marker of your loyalty.”
“Arizona, and maybe the whole country, has just been tense the last four years, eight years”
“Your Twitter mentions are a hellscape”
On defending against Kari Lake’s repeated attacks
Kari Lake’s dream sequence of
“It got to be too much … so eventually I filed a defamation suit against her … we have won on the merits.”
“In plain language, she admits she lied about me”
“I think Mike Lindell was the griftee, not the grifter. … There are still a lot of people who are making a lot of money off of this.”
Why Republicans like Tom Cotton and J.D. Vance struggle threading the needle talking about the 2020 election loss
Do conservatives and disaffected Republicans go third party? Something else?
“There’s a place and there will always be a need for conservatism” … Burke, Buckley, Kirk, Friedman.
Maybe we “look in the eyes of the two political parties and say, ‘Who wants us?’”
Looks good for Trump in Arizona, inflation and the border are huge issues in Arizona
Richer = integrity