That's right - and they want some answers and actions before The America First Rally here in Mesa at the Marriott Delta Hotel on Friday, May 21st.
Arizona Republicans feud over audit as Trump pushes falsehoods about 2020 election
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(CNN)Arizona Republican officials are pushing back against false claims from former President Donald Trump and his allies about the 2020 election -- another sign of how the same divisions that led the House GOP to oust Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney from her post as No. 3-ranking member last week are fracturing the party outside of Washington.
Trump lit the latest fuse Saturday -- as Republican leaders of the Arizona state Senate press forward with a controversial audit conducted by Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based consulting firm -- when he falsely claimed in a statement that the "entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!"
Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County recorder -- a Republican who heads the county's election department -- responded to Trump's statement by saying on Twitter: "Wow. This is unhinged."
Trump's statement amplified claims made by Arizona state Senate President Karen Fann in a letter last week that a screenshot offered evidence that election files had been deleted.
Maricopa County's Board of Supervisors -- four out of five of whom are Republicans -- met Monday to respond to Fann's allegations, with board members offering harsh condemnations of the GOP-led Senate.
Board Chairman Jack Sellers, a Republican, said the state Senate is running "a grift disguised as an audit."
In Washington, the far-right and Trump-aligned portion of the House Republican caucus was also wading into the Arizona election battle.
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Matt Gaetz of Florida joined two Arizona congressmen, Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, wrote a letter Monday to Pamela Karlan, a top official in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Department who on May 5 had written a letter to Fann seeking "the steps that the Arizona Senate will take to ensure that violations of federal law do not occur."
The four Republicans asked Karlan for "a commitment to uphold the rule of law and allow Arizona to confirm the 2020 elections were free and fair."
They also said they wanted a response by May 20 -- the day before Gaetz and Taylor Greene are set to hold an "America First" rally in Mesa, Arizona.
State Senate officials have said the audit will resume May 24, with the goal of finishing in about 14 to 16 days, Arizona Senate liaison Ken Bennett told CNN last week.
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IMAGINE MESA in the national media spotlight one more time for a very special event this Friday. Downtown Mesa will be buzzing like a bee-hive when this roadshow arrives, transforming the dormant city center with an influx of news crews and overnight-stays.
It could be more "vibrant and exciting" than ever before! Boring no more at the same time self-described "non-partisan" politicians here in the most conservative Republican city in America with a generations-old minority-majority Mormon Political Machine, might not roll out a welcome.
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