Arizona GOP Legal professional Common Mark Brnovich slammed election deniers, together with his state’s Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake, over election fraud claims.
Brnovich spoke to “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley about what he known as “horseshit” claims concerning the 2020 presidential election in an interview that aired on Sunday.
Brnovich, who reportedly voted for election denialist and former President Donald Trump, mirrored on Trump calling and asking him to confer with the 2020 election as fraudulent.
His interview comes months after he misplaced a GOP main for a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona to Blake Masters, a Trump-endorsed Republican, as he confronted criticism from the previous president for not overturning election outcomes.
The lawyer basic, who investigated election fraud allegations within the state, is ready to go away his place in 2023 and didn’t maintain again on what he thinks concerning the state’s Republicans and their claims concerning the election.
“Horseshit, and that’s what it’s, most of it’s horseshit, and I’ve been making an attempt to scrape… scrape it off my sneakers for the final yr,” Brnovich stated.
Brnovich claimed there was nobody else within the U.S. who wished to seek out fraud greater than he did and, as “60 Minutes” famous, he’s introduced “indictments in each 2020 vote fraud case that he can again with proof.”
This effort, the information program stated, quantities to indictments of 12 individuals involving 12 ballots throughout Arizona.
Brnovich, in response to a declare from election-denying Arizona Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem, later stated he offers with details and proof as a prosecutor.
“And I’m not just like the clowns that throw stuff in opposition to the wall and see what sticks,” stated Brnovich earlier than a clip of Lake denying the results of the 2020 election aired. “It’s like a large grift in some methods.”
You may watch extra clips from Brnovich’s interview under.