Arizona State Senator Indicted Over 2020 Election ‘Scheme’ Secures RNC Position

Jake Hoffman’s election to RNC national committeeman comes days after an Arizona grand jury indicted him and 17 others for the 2020 ‘fake electors’ plot.

Arizona state Sen. Jake Hoffman announced on Saturday that he was elected as national committeeman for the Republican National Committee (RNC), three days after an Arizona grand jury indicted him for the “fake electors scheme”—described as an effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

The indictment included 10 other Republicans who submitted “procedural vote“ documents to Congress claiming that former President Donald Trump won Arizona in 2020, after he narrowly lost the state to President Joe Biden by less than one percent of the vote.

While the other seven defendants were not directly named, detailed descriptions indicate that President Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, lawyer Rudy Giuliani, lawyer John Eastman, and lawyer Christina Bobb are likely on the list.

“I’m humbled and honored to have been elected as the next RNC National Committeeman for Arizona!,” Mr. Hoffman said in an April 27 post on the social platform X.

“The road to saving America runs through our great state, and the RNC has a crucial role to play in supporting and empowering the Republican grassroots who fight every day against the Democratic Fascists currently trying to destroy opportunity and prosperity for everyone who calls Arizona home,” he added.

Mr. Hoffman is accused of sending a Jan. 5, 2021, letter to former Vice President Mike Pence, urging him to allow Arizona’s state Legislature members to decide its 2020 electors instead of the state’s popular vote, which was being contested by Republicans and President Trump.

“It is in this late hour, with urgency, that I respectfully ask that you delay the certification of election results for Arizona during the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021, and seek clarification from the Arizona state legislature as to which slate of electors are proper and accurate,” Mr. Hoffman allegedly wrote in the 2021 letter.

Mr. Hoffman had previously told reporters that the Arizona GOP’s uncertainty in the “outcome of our [2020] election” meant that no electors should be sent and that any Democrat electors should be contested.

Dueling slates of electors are possible in U.S. elections under the U.S. Constitution and the 1887 Electoral Count Act if the executive and legislative branches disagree on the correct outcome from the popular vote.