Overview

• Gina Swoboda, an election activist endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has been elected as the new chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party.
• Swoboda replaces Jeff DeWit, who resigned after a leaked audio recording revealed him offering a job to U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake to keep her out of the 2024 election cycle.
• Swoboda is a former employee of the Arizona Secretary of State’s office and was the Election Day director of operations for Trump in 2020.
• Swoboda runs the nonprofit group Voter Reference Foundation, which promotes the idea that the current election system isn’t secure and has claimed to have found huge discrepancies in voting records in some states.
• The Arizona Republican Party has been struggling with financial issues, with its cash on hand dropping to less than $15,000.