Andy Biggs Silent on Disturbing Allegations Against Congressional Candidate Mark Lamb

In a new bombshell report by the Arizona Republic, Andy Biggs refused to respond to disturbing allegations against Mark Lamb, one of his top political allies and a candidate running to succeed Biggs in Congress.

Andy Biggs features an endorsement from Lamb on his campaign website and was introduced by Lamb at a campaign launch rally last year.

The report says that Lamb “had used threats and intimidation to suppress a history of sexting, nude photo-sharing and inviting intimate encounters outside his marriage.”

When asked to respond, Biggs “did not return a request for comment.” Earlier this year, Biggs’ opponent, David Schweikert, called out Biggs for his questionable associations, and Biggs refused to offer an explanation or disavow extremist groups.

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Arizona Republic: Top Arizona Republicans mum on allegations of Lamb's sexting, threats 

Laura Gersony and Robert Anglen

May 26, 2026

• No prominent Arizona Republicans publicly defended Mark Lamb from women's allegations that he had used threats and intimidation to suppress a history of sexting, nude photo-sharing and inviting intimate encounters outside his marriage. Neither did they criticize the onetime Pinal County sheriff.
  

• Lamb's congressional campaign has kept a low profile since an investigation by The Arizona Republic surfaced a trove of photos, screenshots and paperwork. The former sheriff is running as a "traditional values" conservative.
  

• Kari Lake also hung up on a Republic reporter. The former Phoenix newscaster and staunch Trump ally beat Lamb in Arizona's 2024 Republican primary for U.S. Senate. She went on to lose to Democratic U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego and is now Trump's nominee to be the nation’s ambassador to Jamaica.
  

• Leaders of the right-wing group Turning Point USA also would not comment on the allegations surrounding Lamb.
  

• Seeing shirtless photographs of Lamb in sexts to women was not enough to dissuade Chris Ogg, a Queen Creek resident and self-described cowboy, from supporting "America's Sheriff."
  

• "If it is indeed true, he should not be running for representative in my district," Ogg said. "If people do things deliberately and habitually, not only will I not vote for 'em, I'll actively make sure that they're not in there."
  

• They say allegations also may cost Lamb support and credibility within Arizona's 5th Congressional District, a conservative bastion and a stronghold for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  

• Members of Congress face deeper scrutiny and calls for greater accountability after high-profile sexual misconduct scandals have led elected officials on both sides of the aisle to resign before possible expulsion votes. Some lawmakers have called for new rules on how harassment and abuse claims are handled on Capitol Hill.
  

• "I'm very, very sad, all the way around," said former U.S. Rep. Matt Salmon, a member of the LDS Church who represented the same area in Congress during the 1990s and 2010s. "Years ago, things were a lot different. But today, the Trump endorsement kind of trumps everything else."
  

• What are the allegations against the former sheriff?
  

• One woman said Lamb told her he would send state police after her if she didn't stop posting about their relationship, The Republic reported. She supported those claims with screenshots of texts and social media messages.
  

• Another woman said Lamb got in her face and tried to bully her into silence after she reported his conduct to the LDS Church. The church investigated the allegations, The Republic found.
  

• Lawyers for Lamb's congressional campaign called many of the claims against him "baseless and harmful." They declined to offer specifics in an April 18 letter.
  

• Political rivals call on Lamb to exit House race
  

• Rumors about Lamb's personal life had circulated among Arizona political veterans for years, conservative consultant Chuck Coughlin said.
  

• The accusations against Lamb have drawn in the LDS Church, his 2020 reelection campaign workers, and the Pinal County Sheriff's Office, County Attorney's Office and the Board of Supervisors. They bubbled up again when he started considering a campaign for Congress last year.
  

• Lamb's political opponents seized on The Republic's findings.
  

• His Republican rival, construction business owner Daniel Keenan, put out a statement calling on Lamb to end his campaign.
  

• "This behavior is utterly unacceptable from someone who aspires to represent us in Congress. We need someone we can be proud of, not someone who will embarrass us," Keenan wrote.
  

• State Republican leaders had little to say.
  

• U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, who is vacating the congressional seat to run for governor of Arizona, did not return a request for comment.
  

• Biggs, like Lamb, is endorsed by Trump and Turning Point. But he has not endorsed the former sheriff's campaign for Congress. Biggs' campaign has not offered an explanation.
  

• Trump's own litany of sexual misconduct allegations did little to slow his meteoric rise in politics. And he has dodged a full reckoning over his connections to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.
  

• The White House and an aide to Trump did not return requests for comment.
  

• The claims will follow Lamb even if he wins his upcoming elections, Coughlin said, especially if the church decides to weigh in.
  

• "That's a very heavily conservative, heavily Christian, heavily Mormon district that has a deep background in those character issues," he said. "I can't imagine it just going away."
  

• The allegations against the former sheriff undercut Lamb's carefully crafted image as a family man.
  

• Lamb has made "faith, family, and freedom" the focus of his campaign for Congress. It's a message that resonates with his supporters.
  

• Ogg said he has long admired Lamb as a model of upstanding conduct. He said Lamb restored the traditional values flouted by Paul Babeu, Lamb's predecessor as Pinal County sheriff, whose political career ended under the shadow of a sex scandal.
  

• "You don't want your sheriff to be running around bald in a pair of leopard undies," Ogg, the Queen Creek cowboy, told The Republic at Lamb's campaign launch in November. "There is a certain standard of professional conduct expected from people."
  

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