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Battle over county elections in Arizona echoes 2020 showdown55%
By Here78% Now Newsroom78%
7/10/2026, 12:01:31 PM
Topics: Elections, US Politics
BS Summary: This article contains 0 faulty reasoning types, including no named faulty reasoning patterns yet, with no single egregious example has been isolated yet. Analysis detected 0 faulty-reasoning hits from 81 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 53.9% and a BS Rank of 55% (6,877 of 15,282 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 55.00% of the article peer group.
Early voting is underway in Arizona for the July 21 primary election. But a fight between Maricopa County officials brings back memories of the 2020 presidential election, when President Trump and his allies falsely claimed that Trump had won the battleground state.
Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd meets up with KJZZ’s Wayne Schutsky at the county courthouse for the latest on an ongoing legal battle.
This segment aired on July 10, 2026.
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