Stephen Richer

People are finally realizing what this administration is all about.

The process is the punishment.

Well, if there's two states that President Trump has been fixated with since the 2020 election, it's Georgia and Arizona.

So it wasn't terribly surprising that somebody from the Trump administration would come to Arizona and would insinuate or make allegations of terrorism.

widespread fraud.

And so when it was announced yesterday that Secretary Noem was going to be here in the Phoenix area, I think speculation ran rampant.

Some people were thinking this was going to be Fulton County 2.0.

Some people were thinking that they were going to try and seize tabulation equipment.

But really, it turned out to be something of a dud.

It turned out to be something of just an infomercial for the SAVE Act.

And I hope she enjoyed the weather here because otherwise, like I said, it seems like a waste of a flight.

For the past five years, we've worried primarily about the confidence, the American confidence in election administration, because Donald Trump and many of his allies have not stopped lying about election administration since really he began in politics in 2016, but certainly since the 2020 election.

And so prior to two weeks ago, I would have said it would have been in the aftermath.

of the 2026 midterm elections, that they would have tried to do something.

They would have tried to say that those people who were elected weren't really elected because we had problems X, Y, and Z, all of which were fake.

But Fulton County changed everything.

It showed that we need to have more imagination.

It showed that this administration is willing to go to lengths that many of us would have thought unimaginable previously.

Yeah.

I don't know.