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Arizona audit keeps feeding Trump’s election delusion
Trump’s allies were still trying to squeeze political oxygen out of the Arizona ballot review, even as election officials and critics warned the exercise was undermining trust and turning conspiracy theory into pseudo-government theater. The bigger problem for Trump was not just that the audit lacked credibility, but that he was treating it like a path back to power. That made the whole enterprise look less like oversight and more like a taxpayer-funded feedback loop for denial.