Losing Arizona: Is Sen. Kelly Townsend an Insurrectionist? [View all]

Sen. Kelly Townsend grew up in Oregon before enlisting in the US Navy. She served for four years and went on to obtain a master’s degree from Arizona State University. Townsend, who resides in Mesa, was first elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2013. She was elected to the Senate in 2020, representing District 16, which covers east Mesa and Apache Junction.

Contributions to the Insurrection

Townsend was a major supporter of the “Stop the Steal” movement, which falsely claimed then-President Donald Trump won the election both in Arizona and nationally.

Townsend, alongside numerous other state Republicans, signed on to a letter to Congress asking lawmakers to accept 11 “alternate” electoral votes for Trump or to have all of the state’s electoral votes “nullified completely until a full forensic audit can be conducted.”

She was one of the Republican lawmakers who attended an unofficial November daylong hearing at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Phoenix where Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis continuously made unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud.

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