Supervisor Clint Hickman pressed top elected Republicans in the state, including Gov. Doug Ducey, Attorney General Mark Brnovich, and state Treasurer Kimberly Yee, to call on Ward to resign over her role in questioning the 2020 election results in Maricopa County.
"She has caused a fracture in our party. She has operated outside of it for the purpose of helping herself," Hickman said in an interview with KTAR News on Friday.
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Ward played a key role in building momentum for the audit of Maricopa County's 2.1 million ballots and was especially critical of the county board, which is controlled by Republicans, after Trump's defeat.
"I think we're going to get pretty crappy results from whatever they do," Ward cd1`said in January in response to an election audit that the county approved itself.
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Hickman said Friday the committee has "always tried — this county has always tried to work with the legislative branch and the judicial branch to bring out evidence and fact," adding that those who backed the Senate's audit "decided to act on conjecture, apparently."
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Supervisor Bill Gates, another Republican, repeated Hickman's statements, saying the party "must choose a new direction rooted in truth & good politics."
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"I stand w/ my colleague here calling for @kelliwardaz’s resignation," Gates wrote in a tweet. "The @AZGOP’s done nothing but push lies about our electoral system, ignore down ballot races, & lose federal & state elections under her leadership."
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Examiners appointed by the Republican-led state Senate gave a report of their review to the chamber on Friday, which established President Joe Biden's victory over Trump in the county and did not say that false ballots were cast.
Senate President Karen Fann, though, referred the report to Brnovich and said "urgent issues" in the report "suggest less-than-perfect adherence to Arizona's standards and best practices."
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Biden won Trump in Arizona by 10,457 votes statewide and by 45,109 votes in Maricopa County in 2020, according to the canvasses following the election.
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"On the day of the final report on the election audit, Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman is calling on Governor Ducey to call for the resignation of @AZGOP Chairwoman @kelliwardaz," wrote Mike Broomhead, host of the Mike Broomhead Show on KTAR News.
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