KJZZ: Andy Biggs “Still Won’t Say Who He Thinks Won the 2020 Election”

A new report from KJZZ is detailing how Andy Biggs’ 2020 election denial is still haunting his gubernatorial campaign, writing that he “still won’t say who he thinks won the 2020 election” and “dodged questions about the purpose” of a letter that was part of an effort to undermine election results.

Biggs’ extreme record puts him fundamentally out of step with Arizona voters, who say his past positions should be "disqualifying for a candidate for governor."

From refusing to acknowledge who won Arizona’s 2022 gubernatorial election to continuing to deny the results of the 2020 presidential election, Andy Biggs has repeatedly shown he cannot be trusted to accept the will of Arizona voters.

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 KJZZ: The 2020 presidential election looms large in Arizona's 2026 governor's race 

Matthew Casey, Wayne Schutsky

June 24, 2026

• Arizona was a frequent topic during hearings held four years ago by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol — and an Arizona congressman allegedly tied to its planning is now running for the GOP nomination for governor.

  
  

• Rep. Andy Biggs was subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee, and his name shows up repeatedly in its final report issued in 2022.

  
  

• Then Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) questioned former state House Speaker Rusty Bowers during a June hearing:

  
  

• “Did you also receive a call from U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona on the morning of January 6?”

  
  

• “I did,” replied Bowers. “And (Biggs) asked if I would sign on both to a letter that had been sent from state, and/or I that would support the decertification of the electors. And I said I would not.”

  
  

• Biggs came up again at the next hearing two days later.

  
  

• “Witnesses told the select committee that the president considered offering pardons to a wide range of individuals connected to the president,” said then Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.).

  
  

• Kinzinger played a montage of deposition tapes, including witness Cassidy Hutchinson, who said Biggs and other Republican congressmen sought a pardon. The former White House aide also testified some of those congressmen were at a Jan. 6 planning meeting.

  
  

• Biggs didn’t testify before the January 6th committee and told KJZZ he was never actually served with a subpoena, though he made public statements at the time indicating he had no plans to comply with the committee’s request. 

  
  

• But Biggs did support the president’s efforts to question the results of the 2020 election, ultimately voting not to certify the results of Arizona and other states’ presidential elections.

  
  

• Rep. David Schweikert, who is now facing Biggs in the Republican gubernatorial primary, also voted against certifying Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential results, though he voted to certify Arizona.

  
  

• His unflinching loyalty to President Donald Trump got Biggs the president’s endorsement in the upcoming Arizona governor’s race, where polling shows he is the frontrunner to win the GOP nomination and challenge incumbent Katie Hobbs.

  
  

• In an interview with KJZZ, Biggs denied many of the allegations made during the committee hearings, including claims that he asked Trump for a pardon.

  
  

• He also denied putting pressure on anyone to de-certify the election, saying he only asked Bowers to sign a letter backed by other Republican legislators seeking to delay certification.

  
  

• But Biggs dodged questions about the purpose of that letter. And he still won’t say who he thinks won the 2020 election. He called it a silly question when asked by reporters earlier this year.

  
  

• Tyler Montague, an East Valley Republican activist and frequent Biggs critic, acknowledged that Jan. 6 is not as fresh in voters’ minds as it was four years ago. But he said the issue could still matter in Arizona, where the last governor’s race was decided by less than one percentage point.

  
  

• “Who's it an issue with? Swing voters, OK, your college-educated traditional Republican voters,” Montague said.

  
  

• Montague accused Biggs of being “a significant mover of election fraud conspiracies,” including those that were easily debunked like a misleading claim that Republican poll watchers were being blocked from going into a Detroit tabulation center.

  
  

• He accused Biggs of pivoting away from conspiracy theories after election deniers like Kari Lake lost several high-profile statewide races.

  
  

• But Montague said Biggs’ past positions should be disqualifying for a candidate for governor, because Biggs either believed unproven conspiracy theories about election fraud or purposely spread misinformation to score political points.

  
  

• “If you believe them sincerely, your analysis, you're not smart enough to be our leader, and if you're cynical enough to lie to people about it, to win the primary, because you can win the primary in the Republican side, you're not honest enough to be our leader,” Montague said.

  
  

• But, for many voters and public officials in Arizona, 2020 won’t go away, because there’s someone else who won’t let that election fade into the past: Trump, whose endorsement catapulted Biggs to the front of the pack in the Republican gubernatorial primary.

  
  

• The president’s fixation on his loss to Biden has prompted multiple ongoing federal investigations and lawsuits seeking to validate debunked election fraud conspiracies.

  
  

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