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Republican voters reject man who dared to defy Trump

August 3rd, 2022 | Tags:
Mr Rusty Bowers told the January 6 committee last month that Donald Trump pushed him to overturn Arizona's election results. Photo: BBC News
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A Republican who resisted pressure from Donald Trump to help overturn the 2020 election has lost a vote to a candidate endorsed by the former president.

Rusty Bowers was hoping to fight for election to the Arizona state senate, but lost the party's primary vote to David Farnsworth.

The staunch conservative also testified against Mr Trump to the committee investigating last year's Capitol riot.

Republican voters elsewhere in the US also backed Trump-endorsed candidates.

Candidates were chosen in a number of states on Tuesday following primary elections that decide who will stand for the party in November's mid-terms.

Those who have publicly supported Donald Trump and repeated his false claims about fraud and malpractice in the 2020 presidential election performed well.

It was a clear indication of Mr Trump's continuing influence on the Republican Party and the enduring support for his claims about the election he lost to President Joe Biden.

Mr Trump, who has hinted publicly at potentially running for president again, has endorsed dozens of Republican candidates.

Mr Bowers, 69, gave emotional testimony to the committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in which he said Mr Trump and his adviser Rudy Giuliani tried to push him to help overturn the election results.

Afterwards, the Arizona Republican party - which has shifted steadily rightwards and is reliably pro-Trump - formally censured Mr Bowers, saying that he was "unfit to serve" the party and no longer a Republican "in good standing".

Mr Trump endorsed his challenger, and dismissed Mr Bowers as a "Rino" - Republican in name only - a favoured term of Mr Trump's for members of his party who refuse to back his false claims of election fraud.

Mr Farnsworth, a 71-year-old former state senator, received the backing of a number of Mr Trump's top allies. He has claimed the 2020 election was influenced by "a real conspiracy headed up by the devil himself".

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