Trump's 2020 Arizona Election Loss: The Truth About Voter Fraud Claims Revealed

The baseless cries of voter fraud by failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake weren’t just a redundant mimicry of former President Donald Trump’s claims that voter fraud cost him the 2020 election in Arizona.

They are aspersions that are easily proven as false. After recounts, audits and even the Cyber Ninjas, no one has brought forward a credible and provable claim of massive voter fraud in Arizona.

Lack of Evidence

There is no evidence that Arizona election officials certified the wrong winner in 2020 or 2022, even with the races being as close as they were. Trump lost by less than 11,000 votes. The Trump campaign chose not to do anything with the fraudulent votes uncovered to avoid calling attention to the small amount of provable fraud.

Straightforward Explanations

What are the straightforward explanations as to why Trump lost? Let’s start with one of the most easily provable reasons: In 2020, voters cast more than 51,000 votes for the Libertarian candidate, Jo Jorgensen, which was five times the margin of President Joe Biden’s victory in Arizona. Trump simply underperformed in Arizona.

Trump's Underperformance

Another astonishing and undeniable trend emerged when comparing the 2016 and 2020 election results. In most of Arizona’s counties, Trump’s share of the vote declined in 2020 relative to 2016, including red counties where Trump won in both 2016 and 2020. Trump’s underperformance meant that he lost more than 8,500 votes in 2020 in Arizona’s red counties alone, a fact that argues strongly against the voter fraud narrative.

Loss of Moderate GOP Support

He told moderate Republicans to take a hike, and those lost votes confirm that these voters did as they were told. Trump’s pollster, Tony Fabrizio, documented this loss of moderate GOP support in a December 2020 report detailing exit polling results across the swing states commissioned by the Trump campaign. Additionally, researchers have identified more votes than the margin of loss for both Lake and Trump, where voters chose down-ticket Republicans but left the presidential or gubernatorial race blank or voted for the Democrat.

Broad-Based Appeal

Republicans can still win Arizona elections — if they have broad-based appeal. The passion and certainty of so many Americans that election fraud was behind Trump’s loss has turned into a mania. Some of the most intelligent people are convinced, without a shred of objective evidence, that the election was stolen.

Conservative Media and Lack of Awareness

Conservatives mainly get their news from conservative media. Coverage of the story about working for the Trump campaign and the subpoenas received garnered mention in just one conservative outlet for an entire year. Facts are only helpful if people are made aware of them.