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Abe
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Far right extremist
Republican Abraham Hamadeh ran for
election for Attorney General of Arizona. He lost in
the general election on November 8, 2022. |
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AZ Supremes Rebuff 2 More Requests To
Overturn GOP's 2022 Losses As Abe Hamadeh
Gets Busted For Lying |
"Hamadeh also
suffered a defeat in his ongoing bid to
nullify his 2022 loss. Earlier this month,
the failed GOP nominee, who lost the
attorney general’s seat by just 280 votes,
sought relief from the state Supreme Court
after a Mohave County Superior Court judge
rejected his request for a new trial. In his
special action, Hamadeh’s attorneys
lambasted the judge for failing to issue
final, signed orders that could be appealed
and for conducting a trial in December in a
way that made it too difficult to present
sufficient evidence. Among Hamadeh’s many
claims are allegations that inaccurate
election verification processes during the
2022 midterms cost him the race; a statewide
recount which identified 507 uncounted votes
in Pinal County means more miscounted
ballots could exist elsewhere that could
sway the results in his favor; and issues
with voter registration systems led to as
many as 1,000 incorrectly rejected
provisional ballots. On Aug. 23, the Arizona
Supreme Court shot down Hamadeh’s attempt to
skip the appeals court. It also issued
sanctions against Hamadeh’s legal team for
blatant lies." |
Aug. 28, 2023 |
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An Arizona Veteran’s Ballot Rejection Story
Went Viral. Here’s What Really Happened |
"It was an alarming
claim that didn’t take long to go viral:
Maricopa County had incorrectly rejected a
ballot from an Arizona veteran in the
November election, disenfranchising him.
Nearly a half million people saw the initial
tweet by Abe Hamadeh, who narrowly
lost his bid for attorney general last year
and is still contesting the election. More
than 1,000 people shared it. Hamadeh, a
Republican, repeatedly referenced the
veteran’s vote, saying that the situation
was “exactly why I’m fighting.” But there’s
more to the story than the veteran’s own
confusion, which appears to be genuine. He
was not registered to vote in Maricopa
County in 2022. In fact, he updated his
voter registration to Navajo County in 2021,
was given a receipt at the time showing as
much, and was notified by Navajo County
before the 2022 election that he was
registered there, according to documents
obtained by Votebeat. In other words, the
process appears to have worked as it
should." |
Mar. 28, 2023 |
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Arizona Recount Shows Democrat Kris Mayes
Beat Republican Abe Hamadeh |
"Democrat Kris Mayes
is the winner of Arizona's attorney general
race, a state judge announced Thursday.
Mayes defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh by
280 votes after a mandatory recount was
triggered due to how close they were
separated after the initial tally in
November, when Mayes led by roughly 500
votes out of 2.5 million cast. Maricopa
County Superior Court Judge Timothy Thomason
unveiled the results of the recount in a
hearing on Thursday." |
Dec. 29 2022 |
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Judge Denies Abe Hamadeh's Election
Challenge In Arizona Attorney General Race |
"Mohave County
Superior Court Judge Lee F. Jantzen on
Friday denied Republican attorney general
candidate Abe Hamadeh's election challenge.
Hamadeh trailed 511 votes behind Democrat
Kris Mayes in one of Arizona's closest
statewide elections. Jantzen ruled from the
bench after closing arguments in the
approximately three-hour trial. His decision
came after the lawyer for the plaintiffs,
Tim LaSota, acknowledged that based on the
sample size of the ballot inspection on
Thursday, he wouldn't get to 511 votes.
Afterward, Mayes' attorney, Dan Barr, called
for LaSota to be sanctioned for bringing the
election contest. The plaintiffs in the case
included: Hamadeh, the Republican National
Committee, and two Mohave County voters, The
defendants were: Mayes, Arizona Secretary of
State Katie Hobbs, and various local
elections officials. Ultimately, the judge
agreed with the defendants that there was
not enough evidence to support the claims." |
Dec. 23, 2022 |
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Voters Should Know Why U.S. Army Reserve Is
Investigating Hamadeh |
"Though he’s running
to be Arizona’s top law enforcement officer,
multiple reports have indicated that he has
repeatedly broken the law. First, he made
far-fetched accusations of election fraud in
the
Trump v. Biden race. Next, he
hypocritically admitted to committing voter
fraud by altering votes on his mother’s
absentee ballot. Next, there’s the reporting
that he failed to list two jobs and
potential conflicts of interest to the
voters on campaign disclosure. Finally, a
United States Army Reserve spokesperson
confirmed an investigation in August,
including Hamadeh – although he won’t tell
us why. Abraham Hamadeh currently serves as
an officer in the United States Army Reserve
and rightfully should be proud of his
military service. From 2020 to 2021, he
mobilized to Saudi Arabia for an active duty
tour as an intelligence officer, during
which Mr. Hamadeh now claims he took the
photo that he recently posted on Twitter.
Somehow, Hamadeh had plenty of time to leave
his desk in Saudi Arabia and head to a local
photographer for uniformed glamor shots." |
Sep. 30, 2022 |
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Abe Hamadeh Took Donation From Fake Trump
Elector, Then Gave Him Leadership Role |
"Republican candidate
for Arizona Attorney General Abe Hamadeh
accepted a $1,000 donation from a fake
elector and then three months later
appointed the elector to a position within
his campaign." |
Sep. 22, 2022 |
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Dispute Over Control Of Family-Owned Land
Led Abe Hamadeh's Father To Sue His Children |
"When Republican
candidate for state attorney general Abe
Hamadeh was a first-year law student, he and
his two siblings were hit with a lawsuit in
a dispute about control of vacant properties
in several Arizona counties. The 2013
lawsuit claimed that the siblings were in
breach of contract and had unjustly enriched
themselves by moving the land out of a trust
and into their own companies, where they had
total control of the properties. The dispute
was a family affair on both sides. The
person who brought the case was the Hamadeh
siblings' father, Jamal Hamadeh, who has
contributed $72,000 to his son's campaign
for attorney general. [...] The lawsuit came
after the children initiated an unauthorized
land transfer from a trust set up by their
father to benefit the children. The move
violated a written contract the family had
about the land, the lawsuit alleged. [...]
If you told me the person who did this is
now a lawyer, I would say that's something
that needs to go to the Bar because that is
a serious breach of a fiduciary duty. If you
told me that it's not only a member of the
state Bar but someone who's running for
attorney general, I'd say complete
disqualification from the office just on
that alone." |
Sep. 22, 2022 |
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Abe Hamadeh's
Statement On
Father's Immigration
Status Omitted
Details About
Deportation Order,
Records Show |

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Tara Kavaler /
Arizona Republic via
Rose Law Group
Reporter,
Sep. 13, 2022 |
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"Abe Hamadeh
is a Republican
running for Arizona
attorney general in
the 2022 election. |
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Newly obtained
court records show
Republican attorney
general nominee Abe
Hamadeh’s father
overstayed a visa by
nearly seven years
and was not in the
country legally when
the candidate was
born. |
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The records shed
further light on
Hamadeh’s family
situation. They also
challenge the
completeness of
Hamadeh’s earlier
response to an
Arizona Republic
question of why his
father faced a
deportation order in
1996. |
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Asked in August
about that
deportation order,
Hamadeh declined an
interview with
reporters but gave a
written response to
The Republic that
said in part, ” … my
parents proudly came
to the United States
LEGALLY in 1989 and
were rewarded for
waiting in line
LEGALLY with U.S.
citizenship in 2007
and 2009.” |
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The response did
not acknowledge that
his father
overstayed a visa,
faced an order of
deportation and
cited his
American-born
children as a reason
to be allowed to
remain in the United
States. |
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Hamadeh’s father,
Jamal Hamadah, whose
last name is spelled
multiple ways in
public records, came
to the U.S. from
Syria on a visitor’s
visa on May 29,
1989, according to
records obtained by
The Republic. |
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The visa expired
about six months
later, on Nov. 27 of
that year. Abe
Hamadeh was born in
Illinois in May
1991. |
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In 1996, after
coming under
scrutiny in a
criminal
investigation in
which charges were
dropped, the federal
government issued an
order of deportation
for Hamadah. He was
granted a stay and
also sought relief
under a section of
immigration law.
That section was
repealed the next
year, according to
longtime Phoenix
immigration attorney
Nicomedes Suriel. |
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As part of his
filings with the
court, Hamadah
highlighted his
family situation and
that two of his
children who were
born in the U.S. |
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“If the
petitioner were
deported from the
United States, not
only he, but his
immediate family
would suffer
irreparable harm and
he would be
separated from his
family for (a) long
period of time,” his
filing with U.S.
District Court in
Illinois states." |

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Abe Hamadeh Has Trouble Following Arizona
Election Law — Again |
"Abe Hamadeh, the GOP
nominee for Arizona Attorney General, filed
a financial disclosure statement that failed
to include his income from two jobs, board
membership and his interests in businesses. Hamadeh's response to the missing items in
the legal document he signed in March "under
penalty of perjury"? He was busy and
admitted the document was wrong." |
Aug. 30, 2022 |
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Arizona AG Race Rocked After GOP Nominee’s
2007-2010 Posts On ‘Ron Paul Forums’
Unearthed |
"Abe Hamadeh has
built his campaign for attorney general
around cleaning up elections in Arizona. Yet
as a teenager, he boasted to an online
message board about voting before he was
legally allowed to and altering his mom's
ballot," the Phoenix New Times reported.
"The posts were among thousands Hamadeh made
to an online message board beginning in
2007. When he wasn't bragging about altering
ballots, he was offering antisemitic and
sexist rants, backing Sheriff
Joe Arpaio and
arguing that voting should be limited to
college graduates who pass intelligence
tests." Hamadeh has vowed to prosecute based
off of the debunked "2000 Mules" movie by
Dinesh D’Souza." |
Aug. 24, 2022 |
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Abe Hamadeh Has Hard-Line Positions On
Immigration. The AG Candidate's Father Once
Faced Deportation |
"Republican Abe
Hamadeh has made border security an integral
part of his campaign for Arizona attorney
general. His hard-line positions include
saying he would prosecute as trespassers
those who illegally enter the country via
the southern border. Similar hard-line
policies against people who are not in the
country legally could have affected Hamadeh
and his family in the 1990s. In 1996, Hamadeh's father, who is from Syria, had an
order of deportation, meaning he faced
removal from the U.S. for not being in the
country legally, according to a court
document and news articles about the case.
Jamal Hamadah remained in the U.S., however.
News articles about the case indicate he
sought to stay because his two younger sons,
including Abe, were born in the country and
were U.S. citizens." |
Aug. 24, 2022 |
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Abe Hamadeh Wants To Be Arizona’s Top Cop.
As A Teen, He Bragged About Voter Fraud
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"Abe Hamadeh has built
his campaign for attorney general around
cleaning up elections in Arizona. Yet as a
teenager, he boasted to an online message
board about voting before he was legally
allowed to and altering his mom's ballot.
The posts were among thousands Hamadeh made
to an online message board beginning in
2007. When he wasn't bragging about altering
ballots, he was offering antisemitic and
sexist rants, backing Sheriff Joe Arpaio and
arguing that voting should be limited to
college graduates who pass intelligence
tests." |
Aug. 23, 2022 |
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Did Abe Hamadeh Sucker Donald
Trump Into Endorsing Him For AG?
Sure Looks That Way |
Laurie Roberts /Arizona Republic
via Rose Law Group Reporter, Jul.
27 2022 |
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"Of
all the Arizona election deniers
who chased after
Donald Trump’s endorsement … |
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Kari Lake and
Mark Finchem with their
treks to pay homage at Mar-a-Lago
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Jim Lamon with his first
Senate campaign ad that ran not
in Arizona but on Fox News in
New Jersey, where Trump was
spending the summer … |
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Wendy Rogers just by being,
well, Wendy Rogers … |
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No
candidate was more crafty in his
approach to Trump than Abe
Hamadeh. |
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Did
Hamadeh inflate his campaign
account? |
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The
31-year-old first-time candidate
hooked the big fish in June and
immediately rose to top-tier
status in a crowded Republican
primary for attorney general. |
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It’s
the bait that makes his story so
interesting. |
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It
appears that Hamadeh snagged
Trump by taking a page out of
Trump’s own book – inflating his
campaign bank account in order
to look like a major player in
the race. |
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Hamadeh brushes off suspicions
that he suckered Trump into an
endorsement, calling the stories
that have circulated since his
latest campaign finance filing
“fake news”. |
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Numbers, however, tell an
intriguing tale." |
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See original
story on Arizona Republic |
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These
Arizona
Candidates
Still
Say
Donald
Trump
Won In
2020, Or
They're
Not Sure
What
Happened
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The
Arizona
Republic
via The
Rose Law
Group
Reporter |
Jul. 15,
2022 |
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"Elected
officials
and
candidates
for
office
in 2022
continue
to
challenge
and
question
the
results
of the
2020
presidential
election
in
Arizona. |
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The
results
have
been
examined
and
re-examined,
challenged
in court
and in a
monthslong
ballot
review.
No
evidence
has been
found of
widespread
fraud or
error in
the
results. |
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Yet
candidates
deny the
outcome.
Others
don't
quite go
as far.
But they
raise
questions
about
potential
irregularities
they say
could
have
influenced
the vote
and
should
be
examined. |
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The
Arizona
Republic
is
listing
candidates
by
category
by the
race
that
they are
entered
in. This
list is
not
complete
and will
be
updated
throughout
the 2022
election
season. |
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These
candidates
in
Arizona
races
deny
that Joe
Biden
won the
2020
presidential
election,
either
in
Arizona
or
nationwide." |
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US Senate
US House
of
Representatives
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Josh
Barnett,
Republican,
1st
District
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Walter
Blackman,
Republican,
2nd
District
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Eli
Crane,
Republican,
2nd
District
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Ron
Watkins,
Republican,
2nd
District
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Jeffrey
Zink,
Republican,
3rd
District
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David
Giles,
Republican,
4th
District
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Jerone
Davison,
Republican,
4th
District
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Andy
Biggs,
Republican,
incumbent,
5th
District
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Brandon
Martin,
Republican,
6th District
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Debbie
Lesko,
Republican,
incumbent,
8th District
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Paul
Gosar, Republican,
incumbent,
9th District
Governor
Secretary
of state
Attorney
general
Treasurer
Arizona
Corporation
Commission
State
Senate
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Steve
Zipperman,
Republican,
Legislative District
1
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Sonny
Borrelli,
Republican,
Legislative
District
5
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Wendy
Rogers,
Republican,
Legislative District
7
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David
Farnsworth,
Republican,
Legislative District
10
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Jake
Hoffman,
Republican,
Legislative District
15
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Anthony
Kern,
Republican,
Legislative District
27
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Janae
Shamp,
Republican,
Legislative
District
29
State
House of
Representatives
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Judy
Burges,
Republican,
Legislative
District
1
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Robert
Scantlebury, Republican,
Legislative
District
9
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Liz
Harris, Republican,
Legislative
District
13
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Austin
Smith, Republican,
Legislative
District
29
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John
Gillette,
Republican,
Legislative
District
30
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Nohl
Rosen,
Republican,
Legislative
District
30
Maricopa
County
Board of
Supervisors
Read the
complete
article
on The
Arizona
Republic |
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Center
for
Arizona
Policy |
2022 Survey
Questions For
Arizona Candidates |
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Position Sought:
Attorney
General |
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Question 2: Adding “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” or “gender expression” to the protected classes of race, religion, age, sex, and ancestry in nondiscrimination law. |
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Candidates'
Position:
Oppose. |
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Question 4: Allowing biological males that identify as transgender to play on female sports’ teams. |
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Candidates'
Position: Oppose |
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Question 8: Allowing parents to seek professional counseling for their minor child with same-sex attraction or gender identity issues.* |
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Candidates'
Position: Support |
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Question 9:
Protecting individuals and
businesses from being required
to provide services or use their
artistic expression in a manner
that violates their moral or
religious beliefs.** |
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Candidates' Position:
Support. |
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This is in reference to the
dangerous and disproven
"Reparative Therapy". |
**Discriminatory
"Religious Freedom" laws. |
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Not So Honest Abraham
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