Arizona GOP Raises Nearly $250,000 in 30 Days Following Election of Chair Gina Swoboda

Tom Pappert
Gina Swoboda

The Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP) on Tuesday reported that it raised nearly $250,000 in the 30 days after Gina Swoboda’s election as the party’s new chair.

A post by the AZGOP to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, attributed the fundraising haul to Swoboda, writing that the party chair raised nearly a quarter of a million “in her first 30 days on the job.”

The party wrote, “2024 is the year we save America from the devastation Joe Biden [and] Democrats have caused.”

Swoboda (pictured above) was elected to lead the party in a decisive victory following the sudden departure of former chair, Jeff DeWit, who abruptly resigned from his position after Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake leaked audio that appeared to reveal he offered her a bribe.

After the audio was released, Lake eventually confirmed she recorded the conversation with DeWit and decided to release it following a conversation with her daughter, who she stated was horrified by the proposal.

In the audio, DeWit told Lake that powerful interests from “Back East” sought to keep her out of the race. He explained they requested he relay an offer for Lake to receive a lucrative job that would allow her to continue expressing her political views without becoming a candidate. Lake repeatedly declined the offer.

Prior to DeWit’s resignation, he reportedly claimed to have stabilized the AZGOP’s finances after the party was gifted around $255,000 by the Protect the House 2024 PAC, which was created by former U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy when he served as Speaker of the House.

Since Swoboda was elected to lead the AZGOP in January, she has pledged to launch legal action to advance election integrity before voters head to the polls.

“I need to litigate, we need to litigate, we need to protect ourselves from lawfare – that’s how they weakened the system in 2020 and we didn’t see them coming,” said Swoboda during a late January appearance on War Room with Steve Bannon.

Swoboda elaborated on her legal strategy for the upcoming elections during an early February appearance on The Afternoon Addiction with Garret Lewis.

“You know what we’ve learned in all of this litigation – 2020, 2022 – is that you have to sue before the election starts,” she told Lewis. “Once they start doing things in this election, the judges are going to say, ‘If you wanted to argue about how they are doing this, you should have come ahead of time.'”

The new AZGOP chair also told Lewis that she was reluctant to run for the position, but was ultimately swayed after former President Donald Trump personally called her to request she lead the party during the crucial 2024 elections.

“I was like, ‘No, I’m not the one, I’m sure there’s somebody else that could do this.’ And then this huge blessing comes and the President of the United States calls me,” Swoboda told Lewis.

She explained, as a result of Trump’s request, “of course I’m going to serve, it’s an honor to serve, it’s a privilege to serve. And the fact that a majority of those state committeemen have the confidence in me is an incredible blessing. I’m going to fight with everything I have and we are going to win. There is no other option than winning. So I’m not going to hesitate, I’m going to put everything I have into it.”

During an analysis of the 2020 and 2022 elections held before she was elected chair, Swoboda urged Republicans to embrace early voting as a method to avoid Election Day technical failures that were reported in 2022.

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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Georgia Star News, The Virginia Star, and the Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Gina Swoboda” by Gina Swoboda. Background Photo “Arizona Capitol” by Gage Skidmore. CC BY-SA 2.0.

 

 

 

 

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