'Welcome to fascism': Arizona Dwelling speaker slams election deniers on GOP ballots

Jack Birle

September 18, 01:40 PM September 18, 01:40 PM

Outgoing Arizona condition Residence Speaker Rusty Bowers slammed Republican candidates who back again previous President Donald Trump's false promises that the 2020 election was stolen.

Bowers, who dropped his bid for the point out Senate final thirty day period, shared his problems pertaining to the slate of GOP nominees, as perfectly as proposed laws he states would make it simpler for the condition legislature to reject election outcomes.

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"The legislature, just after the election, could dismiss the election ... And I mentioned, welcome to fascism,” Bowers explained to CNN for its documentary American Coup: The January 6th Investigation.

As Household speaker, Bowers successfully killed the invoice by sending it to all 12 Home committees for critique. The course of action will likely get much too substantially time for the monthly bill to be introduced up for a vote in the existing house.

Bowers also reported relying on how the forthcoming elections change out, "It is very feasible that the invoice that I assigned liberally to my committees will be back."

"The probability of that acquiring a governor signature would just be a catastrophe. I phone it the chance of going back again into the dim ages in Arizona," Bowers claimed.

Bowers has been an outspoken critic of Trump's antics adhering to the 2020 election, but he explained he would even now very likely assistance him in 2024 if he is the GOP nominee. Bowers testified just before the Jan. 6 committee in July, and he was later censured by the Arizona GOP for no for a longer time getting "a Republican in fantastic standing."