Trump news – live: Trump makes new argument about Mar-a-Lago papers as Pence labels him ‘reckless’ over Jan 6

Mike Pence has blamed Donald Trump for endangering his and his family’s life during the January 6 riots at the US Capitol last year.

“The president’s words were reckless,” Mike Pence tells ABC News in an interview set to air on Monday, adding he “endangered me and my family and everyone”.

It comes as Lara Trump issued a warning to Florida Republican governor Ron DeSantis saying it would be “nicer” for him to stay out of the 2024 presidential nomination race, as he has emerged as the frontrunner to challenge Mr Trump during the midterm campaign.

Meanwhile, Mr Trump faces the fury of conservative enemies within his own party, with the GOP inching closer to a full-scale civil war in the wake of a dismal showing in last Tuesday’s vote.

Mr Trump has directed his own criticism at the Senate minority leader, saying it is “Mitch McConnell’s fault” and making a racist comment about Mr McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao.

“He blew the Midterms, and everyone despises him and his otherwise lovely wife, Coco Chow!” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Key points

• Pence says Trump ‘endangered me and my family’ on Jan 6

• Lara Trump delivers dark warning for DeSantis to stay out of 2024 race

• Pelosi says Biden should run again, possibly setting up rematch against Trump

• GOP governor Larry Hogan says Trump should sit out 2024 election for good of Republicans: ‘I’m tired of losing’

• Trump blames McConnell for midterms flop and takes racist swipe at his wife

Trump makes new argument about Mar-a-Lago papers

15:03 , Oliver O'Connell

Former President Donald Trump argues in a new legal brief that the mere fact he transported sensitive records to Mar-a-Lago while he was president means he automatically designated them as “personal” while still in office. He says that such a designation cannot be challenged in court.

The brief states:

Rather, Plaintiff was authorized to and did in fact designate the seized materials as personal records while he served as President. President Trump was still serving his term in office when the documents at issue were packed, transported, and delivered to his residence in Palm Beach, Florida.

Thus, when he made a designation decision, he was President of the United States; his decision to retain certain records as personal is entitled to deference, and the records in question are thus presumptively personal.

Josh Hawley says Republican party is ‘dead’ as backlash against Donald Trump after midterms grows

14:30 , Johanna Chisholm

The Republican party is “dead” and needs a complete overheal after its disappointing results in the midterm elections, according to GOP senator Josh Hawley, part of a growing backlash against the party’s leadership.

Mr Hawley’s remark on the state of the GOP came shortly after incumbent Democrat senator Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Republican challenger Adam Laxalt in Nevada, a result that meant the Democrats retained control of the Senate.

“The old party is dead,” the Missouri senator said in a tweet late on Saturday. “Time to bury it. Build something new.”

The 42-year-old has been vocally critical of the Republican party’s shortcomings in the midterm polls, including the way it conducted its election campaign.

Read more about the Missouri senator’s fiery reaction to the midterms here, with Alisha Rahaman Sarkar:

Josh Hawley says Republican party is ‘dead’ as midterms backlash grows

‘Candidate quality matters’: GOP governor says Republicans were ‘painted’ with ‘sense of extremism’

14:00 , Johanna Chisholm

Former Trump ally Mo Brooks denounces him as ‘dishonest, disloyal, incompetent and crude’

13:30 , Johanna Chisholm

Mo Brooks, a former ally of Donald Trump who whipped up a crowd at the 6 January rally with his fiery rhetoric, has now described the former president as a “dishonest, disloyal, incompetent [and] crude” politician.

With many in the GOP openly criticising Mr Trump after the midterm elections disappointment, the Alabama congressman said it would be a “bad mistake” for Republicans to have Mr Trump as their nominee in 202.

Mr Brooks has said he will retire from politics after his sixth term in Congress ends on 3 January 2023. He earned an endorsement from Mr Trump last year for the 2022 Senate primary before he withdrew it, saying the Alabama representative “went woke”.

“It would be a bad mistake for the Republicans to have Donald Trump as their nominee in 2024,” Mr Brooks said in an interview with AL.com.

“Donald Trump has proven himself to be dishonest, disloyal, incompetent, crude and a lot of other things that alienate so many independents and Republicans.”

Shweta Sharma has more details here.

Former Trump ally Mo Brooks denounces him as ‘dishonest, incompetent and crude’

Shorter voting window could cut turnout in Georgia runoff

13:00 , The Associated Press

Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock‘s first runoff in 2021 was a titanic nine-week clash to control the Senate that included three weeks of early in-person voting and lots of mail ballots.

Warnock’s victory against Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler - and Democrat Jon Ossoff’s tilt against Republican David Perdue - ended in two Democratic victories that gave the party control of a 50-50 Senate, thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris’ ability to break ties.

But the Dec. 6 runoff won’t be for Senate control this time with Democrats retaining seats in Arizona and Nevada earlier this month. Successful reelection bids by Sens. Mark Kelly and Catherine Cortez Masto were what Democrats needed to keep the slimmest of margins in the chamber.

Georgia requires a runoff if a candidate doesn’t win a majority in the party primary or in the general election. Neither Warnock nor Republican Herschel Walker got to 50%.

Under Georgia’s 2021 election law, there will be only four weeks before the runoff — with Thanksgiving in the middle. Many Georgians will be offered only five weekdays of early in-person voting beginning Nov. 28. And June’s primary runoffs showed time for mail ballots to be received and returned can be very tight.

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Shorter voting window could cut turnout in Georgia runoff

Kari Lake supporters reenact biblical battle outside election centre

12:30 , Johanna Chisholm

Supporters of Kari Lake, the firebrand Republican in the Nevada governor’s race who received former president Donald Trump’s early backing, held a protest march this weekend outside the centre where votes are being counted.

While Democrats have won the midterm contests in Arizona for both Senate and secretary of state, the gubernatorial vote remains among several still being counted across the country.

Saturday’s protests outside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Centre in Phoenix included a reenactment of the biblical Battle of Jericho by supporters of Ms Lake, who as of late on Sunday was trailing her Democrat rival Katie Hobbs by 26,000 votes, a 1 point margin, down about 10,000 votes from a day earlier.

The race still hasn’t been called, with roughly 160,000 votes remaining to be counted statewide.

Sravasti Dasgupta has more details here.

Kari Lake supporters reenact biblical battle outside election centre

‘America has been asking for more moderation for quite some time’: GOP governor says it’s to go ‘back to basics'

12:00 , Gustaf Kilander

‘You can’t govern if you don’t win’: GOP governor says party must abandon election denialism

11:00 , Gustaf Kilander

‘Can Ron DeSantis effectively challenge Trump?'

10:00 , Gustaf Kilander

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman tweeted on Sunday: “Can Ron DeSantis effectively challenge Trump? I have no idea. But one thing I hope doesn’t get forgotten in the horse-race coverage is DeSantis’s major achievement as governor: the unnecessary death of around 20,000 Floridians”.

He added: “Here’s how I get that number. Compare Covid deaths by state since Jan. 1, 2021 — roughly when vaccines became widely available. (2020 comparisons distorted by early carnage in New York areas when we didn’t know it was airborne).”

GOP Louisiana Senator blames Trump-aligned candidates for underperforming

09:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Josh Hawley says Republican party is ‘dead’ as backlash against Donald Trump grows

08:01 , Shweta Sharma

The Republican party is “dead” and needs a complete overheal after its disappointing results in the midterm elections, according to GOP senator Josh Hawley, part of a growing backlash against the party’s leadership.

Mr Hawley’s remark on the state of the GOP came shortly after incumbent Democrat senator Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Republican challenger Adam Laxalt in Nevada, a result that meant the Democrats retained control of the Senate.

“The old party is dead,” the Missouri senator said in a tweet late on Saturday. “Time to bury it. Build something new.”

Read Alisha Rahaman Sarkar’s report.

Josh Hawley says Republican party is ‘dead’ as midterms backlash grows

‘Terrible idea’ for Trump to announce 2024 campaign, GOP governor says

08:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Former Trump ally Mo Brooks denounces him as ‘dishonest, disloyal, incompetent and crude’

07:54 , Shweta Sharma

Mo Brooks, a former ally of Donald Trump who whipped up a crowd at the 6 January rally with his fiery rhetoric, has now described the former president as a “dishonest, disloyal, incompetent [and] crude” politician.

With many in the GOP openly criticising Mr Trump after the midterm elections disappointment, the Alabama congressman said it would be a “bad mistake” for Republicans to have Mr Trump as their nominee in 202.

Mr Brooks has said he will retire from politics after his sixth term in Congress ends on 3 January 2023. He earned an endorsement from Mr Trump last year for the 2022 Senate primary before he withdrew it, saying the Alabama representative “went woke”.

Here is my detailed report:

Former Trump ally Mo Brooks denounces him as ‘dishonest, incompetent and crude’

New Hampshire governor says he can’t support 2024 Trump campaign

07:00 , Gustaf Kilander

‘This victory belongs to Joe Biden,’ Elizabeth Warren says

06:00 , Gustaf Kilander

‘Is boosting Trump helpful to the cause of low taxes for capital owners?'

05:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Journalist and political commentator Matthew Yglesias tweeted on Sunday that “the conservative establishment’s wildly swinging attitude toward Donald Trump can be modeled pretty strictly as a function of ‘at the current moment, is boosting Trump helpful to the cause of low taxes for capital owners?’ which itself varies over time”.

“You can also see this in the conservative movement’s attitude toward same-sex marriage which was a fundamental threat to the stability of the country when saying so was helpful to the cause of regressive tax policy but got dropped like a rock the moment it became a hindrance,” he added.

‘Everything Trump touches dies’: Lincoln Project co-founder slams former president

04:00 , Gustaf Kilander

New Hampshire GOP governor holds door open to 2024 Trump challenge

03:00 , Gustaf Kilander

‘GOP vs MAGA’ battle filled with ‘raging paranoia, denunciations, rage, warring schools of thought,’ Lincoln Project co-founder says

02:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Louisiana GOP Senator says it’s time to offer ‘an alternative’ to Trump

01:00 , Gustaf Kilander

DeSantis has seven-point lead over Trump for 2024 primary, new poll finds

00:30 , Graeme Massie

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has a seven-point lead over Donald Trump in a 2024 presidential primary race, according to a new national poll.

Mr Trump is expected to announce he is running for the White House again this week as Republicans come to term with poor midterm election results that massively underperformed their expectations.

A “red wave” never materialised with Democrats actually gaining a US Senate seat and a runoff in Georgia in December that could potentially hand them another one.

Mr DeSantis easily won his own race but a string of Trump-endorsed candidates were beaten, which helped the Democrats to retain control of the US Senate and has left the House still too close to call.

The Florida politician has also seemingly gained the support of Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing media empire, with the previously loyal New York Post branding the former president “Trumpty Dumpty” on a scathing front page.

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DeSantis has seven-point lead over Trump for 2024 primary, new poll finds

Trump announcing 2024 run would be ‘bad news for the country,’ Pelosi says

00:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Pence says Trump ‘endangered me and my family’ on Jan 6

Sunday 13 November 2022 23:50 , Graeme Massie

“The president’s words were reckless,” Mike Pence tells ABC News in an interview set to air on Monday, adding that they “endangered me and my family and everyone at the Capitol building.”

“It was clear he decided to be part of the problem.”

Conservatives turn fire on Trump over midterm debacle ahead of expected announcement of presidential run

Sunday 13 November 2022 23:34 , Graeme Massie

Defeat brings out more of Donald Trump’s GOP enemies than impeachment or Mar-a-Lago docs ever did, writes John Bowden.

GOP turns fire on Trump over midterm debacle ahead of expected 2024 announcement

‘I’m tired of losing. That’s all Trump’s done,’ outgoing Maryland GOP governor says

Sunday 13 November 2022 23:00 , Gustaf Kilander

GOP governor Larry Hogan says Trump should sit out 2024 election for good of Republicans: ‘I’m tired of losing’

Sunday 13 November 2022 22:46 , Graeme Massie

Trump-endorsed candidate to replace Republican Maryland governor lost out to Democrat Wes Moore.

GOP governor Larry Hogan says Trump should sit out 2024 election

Alabama congressman who boosted the big lie says Trump 2024 ‘would be a bad mistake for the Republicans'

Sunday 13 November 2022 22:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks, a former staunch ally of Donald Trump who spoke at the rally preceding the insurrection on January 6, 2021, has now come out against Mr Trump being the 2024 GOP nominee.

“It would be a bad mistake for the Republicans to have Donald Trump as their nominee in 2024,” Mr Brooks told AL.com. “Donald Trump has proven himself to be dishonest, disloyal, incompetent, crude and a lot of other things that alienate so many independents and Republicans.”

“Even a candidate who campaigns from his basement can beat him,” he added in reference to Joe Biden’s virtual campaigning during the pandemic in 2020.

“I did not fight for Donald Trump after the 2020 election,” he claimed. “I fought for election integrity. Donald Trump just happened to be the beneficiary of it.”

Republicans ‘angry’ Trump is going after DeSantis after he made Florida a ‘red state'

Sunday 13 November 2022 21:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Lara Trump issues dark warning to DeSantis saying it would be ‘nicer’ for him to stay out of 2024 race

Sunday 13 November 2022 20:30 , Gustaf Kilander

Lara Trump issued a dark warning to Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis saying it would be “nicer” for him to stay out of the 2024 race for the GOP presidential nomination.

The daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump appeared on Sky News Australia to boost his prospective candidacy that’s expected to be announced on Tuesday.

The announcement appears to be set to go ahead despite Mr Trump being urged by allies to delay his campaign start until after the Georgia Senate runoff on 6 December.

“I think he’s a smart enough guy to know that it would be great to have all the support of this party, of the America first, Maga movement, whatever you want to call it, fully behind him in 2028,” Ms Trump said.

She said the movement could be split if Mr DeSantis runs in 2024.

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Lara Trump issues dark warning to DeSantis about 2024 race

Pelosi says Biden should run again, possibly setting up rematch against Trump

Sunday 13 November 2022 20:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Louisiana Republican Senator backs McConnell after Trump pushes Rick Scott for Senate GOP leader

Sunday 13 November 2022 19:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump blames McConnell for midterms flop and takes racist swipe at his wife

Sunday 13 November 2022 18:30 , John Bowden

Donald Trump sought to escape blame for the poor showing of his party in the 2022 midterms on Sunday and escalated his racist attacks against the wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, his former secretary of Transporation, Elaine Chao.

The latest attack came in the form of another “truth” from Mr Trump’s Truth Social platform, and followed a dismal performance by the Republican Party in their bid to retake both the House and Senate. After Tuesday’s midterm elections Republicans stand to not only not take the Senate but may in fact be pushed further into the minority; meanwhile, a razor-thin House majority looks possible but not definite as a few races remain uncalled in western states.

Mr Trump has become his party’s scapegoat as a wave of editorials and opinion articles in conservative media blame the ex-president for valuing fealty above all other characteristics and leading the GOP down a path where its national presence was unpalatable for many Americans.

“It’s Mitch McConnell’s fault. Spending money to defeat great Republican candidates instead of backing Blake Masters and others was a big mistake. Giving 4 Trillion Dollars to the Radical Left for the Green New Deal, not Infrastructure, was an even bigger mistake. He blew the Midterms, and everyone despises him and his otherwise lovely wife, Coco Chow!” wrote the ex-president.

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Trump blames McConnell for midterms flop and takes racist swipe at his wife

Lara Trump delivers dark warning for DeSantis to stay out of 2024 race

Sunday 13 November 2022 18:27 , Gustaf Kilander

Democrat wins top Nevada elections job over election denier

Sunday 13 November 2022 18:00 , The Associated Press

Democrat Cisco Aguilar was elected as Nevada’s secretary of state, winning the elections post over Republican Jim Marchant, who pushed to scrap voting machines and claimed all Nevada winners since 2006 have been “installed by the deep-state cabal.”

Marchant’s loss marks the latest defeat for election conspiracy theorists who sought to gain control of elections in competitive states. Marchant organized a coalition of 17 such Republican candidates for the 2022 election, and all lost their races except two — Diego Morales, who was elected secretary of state in Indiana, and Kari Lake, whose contest for Arizona governor remained too close to call.

Marchant, Mark Finchem — an Arizona state lawmaker who attended the Jan. 6 protests — and Michigan’s Kristina Karamo were the most prominent secretary of state candidates because they sought the office overseeing voting in three of the six swing states that decided the winner of the 2020 presidential elections. Their bids drew millions of dollars in outside spending from Democrats and their allies on ads warning voters about them. In contrast, the Republican Party’s apparatus that normally backs secretaries of states didn’t support any election conspiracy theorists and they raised paltry sums of money.

“Their candidates showed voters who they were and the voters rejected them,” said Ellen Kurz, a Democratic strategist whose group iVote spent $15 million against the conspiracy theorists. “Voters saved democracy.”

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Democrat wins top Nevada elections job over election denier

Trump blames McConnell for midterms flop and takes racist swipe at his wife

Sunday 13 November 2022 17:24 , Gustaf Kilander

Donald Trump went after the senate GOP leader on Truth Social over the Republicans’ dismal results in the midterms.

“It’s Mitch McConnell’s fault. Spending money to defeat great Republican candidates instead of backing Blake Masters and others was a big mistake,” Mr Trump wrote. “Giving 4 Trillion Dollars to the Radical Left for the Green New Deal, not Infrastructure, was an even bigger mistake.”

Mr Trump concluded by making a racist comment about Mr McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao, who served as the Secretary of Transportation in the Trump administration.

“He blew the Midterms, and everyone despises him and his otherwise lovely wife, Coco Chow!” Mr Trump wrote.

Schumer hails Democratic retention of Senate as he condemns GOP’s violent rhetoric

Sunday 13 November 2022 17:00 , Eric Garcia

Chuck Schumer said that Democrats’ victory was a refutation of violent Republican rhetoric that former president Donald Trump ignited through his lies about the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

“The American people rejected – soundly rejected – the anti-democratic, authoritarian, nasty, and divisive direction that Maga Republicans wanted to take our country in,” he said. Mr Schumer cited not only the violent riot at the US Capitol on 6 January of last year, but also threats against poll workers and the electoral process.

“All of that bothered the American people,” he said. “And another thing that bugged him just as much too many of the Republican leaders went along with that didn’t didn’t rebut that violence, and some of them even aided and abetted the words of negativity and other things.”

Mr Schumer said that he feared for the well-being of the United States and whether Republicans would win.

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Schumer hails Democratic retention of Senate as he condemns GOP’s violent rhetoric

VOICES: Mitch McConnell is to blame for Republicans’ flop in the Senate, but not for the reasons conservatives think

Sunday 13 November 2022 16:00 , Eric Garcia

McConnell blame is easy to do because, despite voting like one, he’s never been a true movement conservative and the base has long despised him. In addition, he also occasionally says nice things about Joe Biden and in a party that sees Democrats not just as the opposition but as the enemy, that amounts to sacriliege.

Of course, pointing the finger at McConnell comes after plenty of conservative media outlets and figures have said that former president Donald Trump harmed the party’s chances. But that is also a convenient excuse because it allows conservatives who never fully liked Trump and his supporters to finally dump him and allow them to start peddling Ron DeSantis as the 2024 nominee.

But in truth, McConnell and Trump do deserve blame – just not for the reasons their supporters would like to say: As president and Senate Majority Leader, they are the two men most responsible for creating the Supreme Court that wrote Dobbs v Jackson, which overturned Roe v Wade.

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McConnell’s to blame for midterms flop – but not for the reasons conservatives think

Marie Perez defeats Joe Kent in latest humiliation for Donald Trump

Sunday 13 November 2022 15:00 , Andrew Buncombe

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has beaten Trump-backed Republican Joe Kent in a win that represents a major upset for the Democrats and more humiliation for the former president.

Five days after voters went to the polls in the 2022 midterms and on the evening Democrats learned they had held the Senate, the Associated Press called the race for the 34-year-old, and local media described her win as “perhaps the most stunning political upset in the country this year”. Her opponent, meanwhile, declined to concede and said the “fight would go on”.

“I am humbled and honoured by the vote of confidence the people of southwest Washington have put in me and my campaign. Right up to the end, far-away pundits and prognosticators said this race couldn’t be won,” Ms Perez said in a statement on Saturday evening.

“They dismissed the possibility that a moderate Democrat focused on prioritising the needs of this district over partisan point scoring could win in a rural, working-class district.”

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Marie Perez defeats Joe Kent in latest humiliation for Donald Trump

VIDEO: Trump-backed GOP candidate blames Mitch McConnell for midterms loss

Sunday 13 November 2022 14:00 , Gustaf Kilander

‘The quality problem runs deep’: Journalist blames entire Republican Party for midterm results

Sunday 13 November 2022 13:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Former Trump EU ambassador says ex-president ‘fundamentally changed the way that diplomacy is conducted'

Sunday 13 November 2022 12:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Speaking to the New York Post, former Trump EU ambassador Gordon Sondland said that “he fundamentally changed the way that diplomacy is conducted at the presidential level”.

“He cut out a lot of the process. He would pick up the phone all the time and call a foreign leader and just riff with them the way you ‘What are you doing? What’s going on? What can we work on together? What can I do for you? And, more importantly, what are you going to do for us?’” he added.

“It really upset the bureaucracy because they didn’t have a role in that — ‘The president called who? Said what? Why weren’t we involved? Why didn’t we do a briefing on that?’ He broke all of the norms, and now I think you’re going to see presidents on both sides of the aisle taking a page from that playbook,” Mr Sondland said.

Trump vs. DeSantis: A simmering rivalry bursts into view

Sunday 13 November 2022 11:00 , The Associated Press

Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis have been on a collision course from the start.

Eying the Florida governor as his most formidable foe within the Republican Party, the former president has sought to keep DeSantis in his place, often noting the role his endorsement played in lifting the relatively obscure congressman to the leader of one of America’s largest states.

DeSantis, for his part, has long praised Trump and mimicked his style, but has notably declined to put aside his own White House ambitions as the former president prepares to seek his old job again. In the clearest sign of tension, the two held dueling Florida rallies in the final days of this year’s midterm elections. At his event, Trump unveiled his new derisive nickname for DeSantis, calling him Ron DeSanctimonious.

The simmering rivalry between the Republican Party’s biggest stars enters a new, more volatile phase after the GOP’s underwhelming performance in what was supposed to be a blockbuster election year. DeSantis, who won a commanding reelection, is increasingly viewed as the party’s future, while Trump, whose preferred candidates lost races from Pennsylvania to Arizona, is widely blamed as a drag on the party.

That leaves Trump in perhaps his most vulnerable position since he sparked the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. As he moves forward with plans to announce a third presidential bid on Tuesday, Trump is turning to a playbook that has served him through decades of personal, financial and political turmoil: zeroing in on his enemies’ perceived weaknesses and hitting them with repeated attacks.

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Trump vs. DeSantis: A simmering rivalry bursts into view

Time to let go of ‘conspiracies of the past,’ Mark Kelly says after beating Trump-backed Blake Masters

Sunday 13 November 2022 10:00 , The Associated Press

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly urged Arizonans to let go of “conspiracies of the past” on Saturday, calling for unity a day after he won re-election to a crucial Senate seat.

Arizona was central to former President Donald Trump‘s push to overturn the 2020 election and cast doubt on the legitimacy of President Joe Biden‘s victory. Kelly pressed to move past the false claims of a fraudulent election have shaped the state’s politics for the past two years.

Kelly defeated Republican Blake Masters, who along with most of the rest of the GOP slate was endorsed by Trump after pushing the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.

“After a long election, it can be tempting to remain focused on the things that divide us,” Kelly said in a victory speech at a Mexican restaurant in Phoenix. “But we’ve seen the consequences that come when leaders refuse to accept the truth and focus more on conspiracies of the past than solving the challenges that we face today.”

Kelly won after distancing himself from Biden and building an image as an independent lawmaker not beholden to his party. He cast himself in the mold of his predecessor, the late Republican John McCain, whose specter still hangs large over Arizona politics four years after his death.

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Mark Kelly: Time to let go of "conspiracies of the past"

Many Trump supporters don’t believe former president and Ron DeSantis would run against each other

Sunday 13 November 2022 09:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump national security advisor tells followers to avoid the media and listen to Steve Bannon

Sunday 13 November 2022 08:00 , Gustaf Kilander