One America News pushes to make Arizona's so-called election "audit" into "America's audits"

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Bobby Lewis
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I wrote about how OAN(N) has been encouraging the spread of the nonsense Arizona "audit" nationwide, with their fairly obvious hope that "America's audits" remove Biden from the presidency...somehow. One of them literally said "we'll figure it out."

One America News pushes to make Arizona’s so-called election “audit” into “America’s audits”
mediamatters.org
11:24 AM · Jun 21, 2021

https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/one-america-news-pushes-make-arizonas-so-called-election-audit-americas

As former President Donald Trump restarts his political rallies, driven by the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him, the avowedly pro-Trump One America News looms large in the background. The Trumpist network hosts openly voice their hopes that the ongoing so-called “audit” of the Maricopa County, Arizona, election results -- driven by an unsecure, QAnon-riddled hot mess of conspiracy theories -- will prove fraud and throw the certified 2020 election results into chaos, ultimately removing Joe Biden from the presidency -- and maybe flipping the U.S. Senate to Republicans as well.

Trump’s remaining political staff reportedly jokes that his “most senior adviser” is OAN “reporter” Christina Bobb, with whom he regularly discusses the ongoing Arizona process. Bobb also hosts a weekend show Weekly Briefing and, in a breach of the most basic journalistic ethics, is also a major fundraiser for the audit, soliciting donations on the air. Her show has routinely aired on-site in Arizona since the audit process began.

Trump isn’t the only one watching OAN’s promotion of this “disinformation blueprint.” A tour of what OAN host Natalie Harp declared “America’s audit” has become a pilgrimage for GOP legislators and candidates for office from states all across the country, and many have appeared on OAN during their visit. In fact, Bobb has claimed that officials from “about a dozen” states are interested in conducting their own so-called audits of the 2020 election, and she has interviewed multiple officials or candidates from at least Pennsylvania, Nevada, Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Michigan, Minnesota, Georgia, and Wisconsin. At least one of these legislators who spoke with Bobb and OAN refused interviews with credible outlets.

Bobb’s guests typically make their own allegations of fraud, express support for an “audit” of their own state, and encourage other Republicans to travel to Arizona’s “audit.” For example, at Bobb’s questioning, Wisconsin Republican Rep. Janel Brandtjen -- who reportedly traveled to Arizona with another state legislator at the expense of Bobb’s fundraising -- pressed for an audit in her state because of suppositions she had about “this guy from New York,” a consultant who worked a polling site in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (An OAN chyron during the interview alleged the consultant was “sent” by New York, but he was hired by the city of Green Bay from a vote-by-mail nonprofit.)

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1. Audits. Yea, right.

Figure it out indeed. They need to figure out how to sit down and shut up for the next three and a half years.