Hostile takeover: Turning Point USA and the remaking of Arizona's Republican Party [View all]

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MUST READ @ruelaswritings pulls back the curtain on one of the most important stories in AZ politics: Turning Point USA's takeover of the Arizona Republican Party.

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Hostile takeover: Turning Point USA and the remaking of Arizona's Republican Party
Determined to turn Arizona red, Turning Point USA is playing a long game. If it succeeds here, it will roll out its formula in other states.
1:19 PM · Nov 2, 2022

https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona-investigations/2022/11/02/turning-point-helped-kelli-ward-trump-republicans-seize-arizona-gop/8172376001/

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The buzz among attendees at the 2019 meeting of the Arizona Republican Party was that the machines being used to vote for party chair couldn’t be trusted. And that, instead, everyone should state their preference out loud in a voice vote.

At the end of that noisy, chaotic process, Kelli Ward, a former U.S. Senate candidate, who twice couldn’t escape the Republican primary, became leader of the party that she felt had shunned her.
Helping Ward get there, The Arizona Republic would report weeks after her election, were two people with connections to Turning Point, the umbrella name given to a group of organizations whose clout within the party has grown in recent years.

The Turning Point employees who served as unofficial advisers to Ward were Tyler Bowyer and Jake Hoffman.

Hoffman was the former communications and media director for Turning Point USA. He also ran a company called Rally Forge that was paid more than $1 million by Turning Point USA. In 2020, Facebook banned Rally Forge from its site because its investigation found the company created fake profiles to comment on news stories ahead of the election.

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