Democrats are targeting State Senator Jake Hoffman (R-Queen Creek), a champion of election integrity, by driving a truck around his district with a lit-up billboard apparently referencing him. It said, “Arizona’s fake electors tried to steal your voice in 2020. Don’t let them do it again in 2024.” Hoffman was one of 11 Republican electors chosen by Arizona Republican leadership as a possible alternate slate after the 2020 election due to concerns about election illegalities. The truck was seen driving on January 6, the anniversary of the J6 protest at the U.S. Capitol.
Hoffman responded and posted photos of the truck on X. “Extremist Democrats in Arizona think that driving a billboard around my district lying about me and defaming me will scare me into resigning,” he said. “IT WON’T. IT STRENGTHENS MY RESOLVE. It makes me fight harder for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to save this country.”
Although the billboard refers to “fake electors,” constitutional legal experts have revealed that there were several presidential elections throughout U.S. history where alternate slates of electors were considered by the vice president, and some were accepted and certified. In the 1960 election, there were three electoral slates produced from Hawaii, including a second one from the Democrats that was not officially certified by the governor or any other state entity such as the state legislature. The second and third slates were proposed due to concerns there was wrongdoing in the initial ballot count favoring Republicans, which had resulted in litigation.
No one referred to the Democrats’ uncertified second slate, which was ultimately not accepted, as fake. After the litigation concluded, the third slate, which was from the Democrats also, was accepted by Vice President Nixon.
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