“Character Smears:” Maricopa County Republicans Wade Into Schweikert and Biggs Mudslinging

The Maricopa County GOP waded into the Andy Biggs versus David Schweikert debate over who has deeper ties to extremist groups, decrying Schweikert for inserting “character smears” into the primary and calling it an “act of desperation.” 

This comes after Schweikert escalated the infighting with a flier highlighting Biggs’ ties to white supremacist and antisemitic groups, kicking off a “downright nasty” back-and-forth that has consumed the GOP primary for the past month. 

The barbs have hit both Biggs and Schweikert. One of the groups the Schweikert campaign condemned Biggs for associating with turned out to be a group Schweikert himself tried to speak to. 

Initially, Biggs invoked Confederate General Robert E. Lee to defend himself,but nearly a month later, Biggs has still refused to condemn these extremist groups.

This race is only getting uglier. Schweikert’s campaign made clear that he “will not back down” and argued that this was simply a “warm up, or an appetizer, for what's going to come.”

Copper State Victory spokesperson Nicholas Simões Machado said:

“Arizona families are being left behind while Andy Biggs and David Schweikert are locked in a nasty, chaotic race to the bottom. Rather than talking about how they’ll make Arizonans’ lives better, both candidates are busy exposing how extreme the other one is, and this is only just the beginning.”

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