Arizona's GOP Attorney General: Trump Likely Lost State, No Evidence Of Fraud

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Republican, said Wednesday he believed President Donald Trump would likely lose the state and that there were no facts to back up claims of rampant voter fraud, the latest in a small group of GOP officials to undercut the White House line following Trumps loss to President-elect Joe Biden .

Right now, there is less than 50,000 votes to count, and the president would have to get about 65% of them to win Arizona, so it does appear that Joe Biden will win Arizona, Brnovich told Fox Business anchor Neil Cavuto on Wednesday. If indeed there was some great conspiracy, it apparently didnt work.

Thats the reality, he said. There is no evidence, there are no facts that would lead anyone to believe that the election results will change.

Arizonas Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich to Cavuto: \"There's less than 50,000 votes to count and the President would have to get about 65% of them to win Arizona. So it does appear that Joe Biden will win Arizona\"

...and then he knocks down all the frivolous lawsuits. pic.twitter.com/ctqPE9q5NC

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Arizonas Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich to Cavuto: "There's less than 50,000 votes to count and the President would have to get about 65% of them to win Arizona. So it does appear that Joe Biden will win Arizona"

...and then he knocks down all the frivolous lawsuits. pic.twitter.com/ctqPE9q5NC
Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) November 11, 2020

Votes are still being counted in Arizona, but many news networks have declared Biden the winner in the state . Brnovich said Wednesday he believed those calls would hold true (even without a win in Arizona, Biden would still secure the White House with enough electoral votes).

The comments add to a small contingent of Republican lawmakers that have openly undercut Trumps claims of voter fraud. Brnovich is the number 2 Republican in Arizona, behind GOP Gov. Doug Ducey.

Ducey has so far refused to publicly congratulate Biden and has not overtly thrown water on Trumps claims that there were voting irregularities in the state, although he stressed the states laws had made it easy to vote and hard to cheat.

Weve already seen the outcome of races change to a dramatic degree, and some results remain unclear, the governor said in a statement this week. The president, just like any other candidate, has the right to all available legal challenges and remedies, and we are confident they will be properly adjudicated. We will respect the election results.

Trump and his surrogates have spent the days since Democratic nominee Joe Biden was declared the president-elect filing a bevy of lawsuits and claiming, without evidence, that there was widespread voter fraud around the nation that deprived the president of a second term.

Many Republicans in Congress have lined up behind the lie , refusing to congratulate Biden and kowtowing to Trumps ongoing effort to try and bend the will of the election in his favor. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said this week that the president was 100% within his rights to challenge the election result, while Democrats have said the effort will only further undermine Americans faith in the electoral process.

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Biden, for his part, has said Trumps refusal to concede is an embarrassment .

The only thing that how can I say this tactfully? I think it will not help the presidents legacy, the president-elect said this week.