Election Denial Still Looms Over GOP Gubernatorial Primary

Arizona’s Family is out with a new report detailing how election denialism is once again front and center in Arizona’s governor’s race, with both Andy Biggs and David Schweikert raising unfounded concerns about election fraud. 

The report underscores Biggs’ long record of election denialism, including his efforts to overturn Arizona’s 2020 election results and how he defied a congressional subpoena about his role in helping organize the January 6 insurrection. 

This comes as Biggs continues to back renewed efforts to reinvestigate Arizona’s already extensively reviewed 2020 election, as Donald Trump pushes to relitigate the results and reopen scrutiny of Maricopa County. 

Schweikert, meanwhile, is now facing backlash after claiming Arizona’s 2022 attorney general race was “probably stolen,” before attempting to walk back the comments by saying he was “overcaffeinated.” 

Together, Biggs and Schweikert are doubling down on the same Kari Lake playbook of election conspiracies that Arizonans have repeatedly rejected and continuing to undermine the will of Arizona voters. 

Read more below: 

Arizona’s Family: Stolen election claims reignite in Arizona governor’s race

Dennis Welch

April 28, 2026

• Hobbs said there is a reason Donald Trump wants Andy Biggs to be governor of Arizona in 2028.

• “We are one of the seven swing states that decides presidential elections, and if Andy Biggs is governor, Arizona would be the first swing state to be led by an election denier,” Hobbs said.

• Rep. Andy Biggs has questioned the results of the 2020 election that Joe Biden won and was accused of taking part in the effort to stop Congress from certifying Arizona’s presidential election results.

• Former Republican House Speaker Rusty Bowers testified in 2022 before Congress about the morning of Jan. 6.

• Then-Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, asked Bowers if he had received a phone call from Rep. Andy Biggs.

• “I did,” Bowers said.

• Schiff asked what Biggs had asked him to do.

• “I believe that was the day the vote was occurring to each state to have certification or to declare the certification of the electors, and he asked if I would sign on both to a letter that had been sent to my state and or that I would support the decertification of the electors, and I said I would not,” Bowers said.

• Before Biggs can face Hobbs, he needs to beat fellow Rep. David Schweikert in the GOP primary.

• Schweikert chose a different path in 2020. He voted to certify the 2020 presidential results in Arizona. But during a recent campaign stop, he questioned the results of another election in 2022.

• “We have not won the top of the ticket in a decade. We lost Senate, lost Senate, lost secretary of state, lost attorney general. I think the attorney general race was probably stolen from us,” Schweikert said.

• Schweikert said over the phone that he is not an election denier. He said he was likely overcaffeinated when he made those comments.

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