Mark Brnovich, Arizona’s outgoing attorney general, didn’t hold back in a CBS “60 Minutes” segment aired on Sunday, October 30, 2022.
He said nobody wanted to find voting fraud more than he did, but prosecutors have to deal with facts and evidence, and his office found only 12 cases he “can back with evidence.”
Brnovich (photo, left), who voted for Trump, described getting a call from Trump asking him to call the 2020 election fraudulent. That would be lying, and he didn’t go along with it.
That honesty cost him. This year, Brnovich ran for U.S. Senate, and lost the GOP primary to a Trump-endorsed election denier.
On TV Sunday, Huffington Post says (here), Brnovich “didn’t hold back on what he thinks about the state’s Republicans and their claims about the election.”
“Horseshit, and that’s what it is, most of it’s horseshit, and I’ve been trying to scrape it off my shoes for the last year,” Brnovich said. “And I’m not like the clowns that throw stuff against the wall and see what sticks.”
It’s pretty clear who he was calling “clowns”: The GOP candidates for governor and secretary of state, Kari Lake and Mark Finchem, who’ve both peddled false conspiracy theories and election lies.
I’d say Brnovich’s political career, at least as a Republican, is over. He was caught between a rock and a hard place. Decent, honorable, and honest people don’t get nominated in the GOP anymore; you either sell your soul to the devil, or get sent away. He’s probably destined for private law practice now.
If Lake and Finchem lose next Tuesday, and let us hope and pray they do, they’re not lawyers with legal careers awaiting them. Lake, a former local newscaster, might land a lucrative gig on the Fox Propaganda Network.
Finchem could apply to reinstate his real estate license (he let it lapse last year), but with the housing market slowing, he might do better recycling aluminum cans. An appropriate use of his very limited talents.