Ousted Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who lost his GOP primary earlier in the month, spoke with The Guardian in an extensive interview published on Monday and warned that the U.S. Constitution is “hanging by a thread.”
Bowers spoke with Ed Pilkington on his ranch in Mesa, Arizona and pulled no punches in criticizing the plot by Trump and his allies to use an “arcane Arizonan law” for the state legislature to toss out the state-wide vote and switch the victory and the state’s electors to Trump.
“I was trying to send a definitive message: this is hogwash,” Bowers told The Guardian of his opposition to the plan. “Taking away the fundamental right to vote, the idea that the legislature could nullify your election, that’s not conservative. That’s fascist. And I’m not a fascist.”
Pilkington notes in the text of the article that the text of the law Trump and his allies pointed to for Bowers to invoke “has never been found.”