Republican congressional candidate Abraham Hamadeh continues to challenge the results of the 2022 election, but new text messages obtained by DailyMail.com suggest he was not always the furtive election fighter he now portrays himself to be.
The campaign between Hamadeh and Blake Masters has pitted former MAGA operatives and allies against each other as both Republican candidates fight in the primary to replace the retiring Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ).
Hamadeh ran and lost his race for Arizona Attorney General in 2022 by a razor thin-margin, but he was careful to avoid being lumped in with angry Republicans he described as ‘the crazies’ who were raising a storm in reaction to the election results.
His opponent Democrat Kris Mayes led by only 510 votes when the final election vote tally was completed in late November. A subsequent recount completed in December found Hamadeh losing by only 280 votes.
Blake Masters and Abe Hamadeh are competing in the Republican primary for AZ-8
That margin left Hamadeh in a positive mood, even as his legal challenges to the election results were dismissed by the courts.
‘No matter what happens, I’m winning right now,’ he texted fellow Republican Blake Masters on January 20, 2023.
‘I’m not lumped in with crazies with election stuff because I’m so close at 280, but the crazies love because they see me fighting. Win win,’ he added, even as it appeared he would lose his race.
‘The crazies’ in Hamadeh’s estimation, appeared to be the passionate Republicans challenging the election results of obvious losses in the state.
Hamadeh then texted a selfie of him attending a boxing event.
‘In Thailand right now,’ he added with a laugh-crying emoji.
Masters praised Hamadeh for fighting a ‘noble and disciplined fight’ and even said he was glad that the candidate was ‘getting some r and r’ after the campaign.
The Hamadeh campaign dismissed the leaked messages as another ‘misleading’ attempt by the Masters campaign to discredit Trump’s endorsement.
‘This is nothing more than a sad and vindictive scheme to undermine President Trump after he refused to endorse him and his lies continue to prove why the grassroots is abandoning him: he is a coward without a conscience,’ Hamadeh campaign spokesperson Erica Knight said in a statement to DailyMail.com.
At the time of the texting conversation, Masters had lost his own campaign to beat Democrat incumbent Mark Kelly by five points, despite having the support and financial backing of billionaire tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
Masters was in no position to challenge the results of his election loss, but he notably did not join MAGA Republicans in the state challenging the elections.
In 2022, Trump was dissatisfied that Masters failed to make election fraud in Arizona the focus of his campaign, urging him to be ‘stronger’ on the issue.
‘You’ll lose if you go soft. You’re going to lose that base,’ Trump said.
Former President Trump endorsed Abe Hamadeh in the primary versus Blake Masters
Running for the House of Representatives in 2024 was not the first choice for Masters. He was initially considering running to replace Independent Senator Kyrsten Sinema, until MAGA favorite Kari Lake entered the race with Trump’s endorsement.
Despite his feelings in January, Hamadeh is not giving up his old race, even if he’s lumped in with ‘the crazies’ challenging the results of the election.
In May, he filed his fourth legal challenge to the 2022 election in Arizona demanding a redo even though Democrat Kris Mayes was declared the winner in the election in late December and has been serving in the office since early this year.
His previous attempts were rejected, thrown out, mocked by Democrats, but he’s committed to the cause.
For a Republican in Arizona, it’s an important to be seen as someone who won’t back down and won’t be cowed into submission by Democratic mockery, the media, and the exasperated Arizona legal community.
‘Abe has never stopped fighting for honest elections, despite attempts to smear, discredit and even sanction him,’ Knight said.
Hamadeh is now appearing in pro-Trump media interviews to demonstrate he is fully committed to fighting the results of not only the 2022 election, but the 2020 election.
‘These judges need to wake up,’ he said in an interview with the conservative news outlet Gateway Pundit. ‘They need to love the rule of law more than they hate me, because right now the people elected me in November of 2022, and Arizona has an illegitimate government and illegitimate attorney general in there right now.’
Today, both Masters and Hamadeh are in the middle of a bruising primary fight over a singular congressional seat in the state.
Hamadeh has the endorsement of President Donald Trump, Kari Lake and several other MAGA figures in Trump’s orbit. Whoever wins the primary will likely win the race against any Democrat in the conservative district.
Both candidates are fighting over a less prestigious office, but with just as much intensity as they try to escape the brand of a two-time loser.
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