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   going. “I don’t know how this ends positively.”   
      
   Richer told me he wanted to “see if we can get some more Republicans in   
   Arizona to join the bandwagon because otherwise this is just going to   
   linger into 2022 if we don’t get a critical mass of people to say enough.”   
      
   I asked him if, outside of Maricopa County, he expected to see any support   
   from other members of the Republican Party. Richer fell silent for eight   
   seconds. When he finally spoke, he said haltingly, “I don’t know. I’m not   
   sure. I … 50-50.   
      
   “The path of least resistance is to just sort of either ignore it or to   
   say, ‘Well, I don’t know what happened there but we should continue   
   looking at these things,’ ” Richer acknowledged. “If enough of us just   
   came out and said flat ‘no’ then I think that would be nipped in the bud.”   
      
   With the Senate president holding a hearing during the audit’s off week   
   once again endorsing the work of Doug Logan, and with the audit set to   
   resume on Monday, it seems unlikely that Trump’s claim the election was   
   stolen in Arizona and across the country will “be nipped in the bud.”   
   Fontes points to Liz Cheney losing her leadership post in Congress for her   
   refusal to indulge Trump’s election fantasies and sees all this as   
   predictable.   
      
   “You know, once you get on that Trump train, if you get off, it ain’t   
   stopping for you,” Fontes told me. “If you get off, it’s gonna be because   
   somebody shoved you.”   
      
   https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/arizona-audit-recount-   
   claiming-trump-won.html   
      
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