{"id":7480,"date":"2025-04-22T05:50:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T05:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2025-04-22T05:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T05:50:03","slug":"trump-adds-a-second-endorsement-in-the-race-to-be-next-arizona-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7480","title":{"rendered":"Trump adds a second endorsement in the race to be next Arizona governor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PHOENIX, Ariz. — <\/span>President Donald Trump added another endorsement in next year\u2019s Republican primary for Arizona governor<\/a>, saying Monday that he was backing U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs in addition to his previously announced endorsement of housing developer Karrin Taylor Robson.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s endorsement of Robson late last year angered some of his biggest allies in the state, who are suspicious of her longstanding ties to the Republican business establishment and preferred a candidate with deep roots in Trump\u2019s \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d movement. <\/p>\n

A former chair of the U.S. House\u2019s hard-right Freedom Caucus and former state Senate president, Biggs has long been a close ally to Trump and supported his false claims about the 2020 presidential election being stolen. Biggs represents a deep red district including cities like Queen Creek and Gilbert, and has ties to the party\u2019s grassroots. <\/p>\n

Biggs has had no problem with defying party leadership \u2014 such as when he and seven other House Republicans helped oust Kevin McCarthy<\/a> as House Speaker in 2023. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Andy Biggs decided to run for Governor, quite unexpectedly, I had a problem \u2014 Two fantastic candidates, two terrific people, two wonderful champions, and it is therefore my Great Honor TO GIVE MY COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT TO BOTH,\u201d Trump said Monday in a post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

In a failed 2022 race for governor, Robson was closely aligned with old guard Arizona conservatives. She campaigned with Republicans who had fallen from Trump\u2019s good graces, including former Gov. Doug Ducey<\/a> and former Vice President Mike Pence, while Trump campaigned for former television news anchor Kari Lake. Lake won the GOP primary and lost to current Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs.<\/p>\n

This time around, Robson has been looking to eliminate daylight between herself and the president, eagerly embracing him and his policies while touting herself as the Trump-endorsed candidate.<\/p>\n

In reaction to the dual endorsement, Robson expressed her gratitude to Trump for his support.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot wait to be in the Governor\u2019s Office as a partner to his conservative, America First agenda,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cOnward!\u201d<\/p>\n

Sean Noble, general consultant with Biggs’ campaign, said the campaign is \u201cthrilled\u201d for the endorsement but also expected it to be for both candidates given Trump’s earlier support of Robson. <\/p>\n

\u201cGiven that Robson had leaned so heavily on the endorsement as her very premise for being in the race, it does call into question whether she should stay in the race,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Trump is no stranger<\/a> to dual endorsements. Since 2017, he\u2019s supported multiple candidates vying for the same post in six races, including Robson and Biggs, according to analysis by The Associated Press. In the 2022 U.S. Senate race in Missouri, he endorsed \u201cEric,\u201d the first name of two GOP candidates vying for the nomination. A triple endorsement came in 2024 in the Missouri governor\u2019s race when Trump backed Jay Ashcroft, Mike Kehoe and Bill Eigel. <\/p>\n

The Democratic Governors Association called the dual endorsement as a \u201chuge blow\u201d to Robson. The winner of the GOP primary will face likely face Hobbs, who has no serious challenger for the Democratic nomination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX, Ariz. — President Donald Trump added another endorsement in next year\u2019s Republican primary for Arizona governor, saying Monday that he was backing U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs in addition to his previously announced endorsement of housing developer Karrin Taylor Robson. Trump\u2019s endorsement of Robson late last year angered some of his biggest allies in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7482,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions\/7482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}