Jake Hoffman (Arizona politician)

Jake Hoffman
Jake Hoffman
Member of the Arizona House of Representatives from the 12th District
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; January 11, 2021 Serving with Travis Grantham
Preceded by	Warren Petersen
Personal details
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	Arizona State University; Northwest Christian University

Jake Hoffman is an Arizona state representative in Arizona's 12th district. He was elected to the seat after incumbent Republican Warren Petersen decided to run for the Arizona Senate.[1] He and incumbent Travis Grantham won in a two–seat election in 2020, both defeating Democrat Kristin Clark by over 85,000 votes.[2]

Hoffman runs a digital-marketing company, Rally Forge, that paid teen-agers to post thousands of propaganda messages under the teens’ accounts, and others under assumed personae, claiming that mail-in ballots would “lead to fraud,” and that Democrats planned to steal the Presidency. In 2016, the company fabricated a politician—complete with a doctored photograph—to run as an Independent write-in candidate. The Guardian reported that Rally Forge also formed a fake left-wing front group, America Progress Now, which promoted Green Party candidates online in 2018, apparently to hurt Democrats in several races. Rally Forge was banned from Facebook in 2020 when Hoffman was permanently suspended by Twitter. As of 2021, he is the vice-chair of the Arizona House's Committee on Government and Elections.[3][4][5]

After Democratic candidate Joe Biden won the state of Arizona in the 2020 election and President Donald Trump refused to concede while making false claims of fraud, Hoffman declared himself an elector and attempted to submit false documents to the National Archive saying that Arizona had been won by Republican candidate Donald Trump.[6] In 2022, Hoffman proposed to divide Maricopa County into three new counties – critics said that the proposal was intended to punish election officials in Maricopa County for not overturning the 2020 election results based on Trump's false claims of fraud.[7]

References

"2020 Arizona State Senate – District 12 Election Results". Shreveport Times.
"2020 Arizona State House – District 12 Election Results". USA Today.
Wong, Julia Carrie (June 11, 2021). "Revealed: rightwing firm posed as leftist group on Facebook to divide Democrats". The Guardian.
Mayer, Jane (August 2, 2021). "The Big Money Behind the Big Lie". The New Yorker.
"Analysis of an October 2020 Facebook Takedown Linked to U.S. Political Consultancy Rally Forge". cyber.fsi.stanford.edu.
Ruelas, Richard. "Arizona's Trump supporters refuse to detail creation of an alternate slate of electors". AZCentral.com.
"Arizona Republicans are pushing to divide Maricopa County. Critics say it's about revenge for 2020 — and planning for 2024". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved April 25, 2022.

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[1] "2020 Arizona State Senate – District 12 Election Results". Shreveport Times.

[2] "2020 Arizona State House – District 12 Election Results". USA Today.

[3] Wong, Julia Carrie (June 11, 2021). "Revealed: rightwing firm posed as leftist group on Facebook to divide Democrats". The Guardian.

[4] Mayer, Jane (August 2, 2021). "The Big Money Behind the Big Lie". The New Yorker.

[5] "Analysis of an October 2020 Facebook Takedown Linked to U.S. Political Consultancy Rally Forge". cyber.fsi.stanford.edu.

[6] Ruelas, Richard. "Arizona's Trump supporters refuse to detail creation of an alternate slate of electors". AZCentral.com.

[7] "Arizona Republicans are pushing to divide Maricopa County. Critics say it's about revenge for 2020 — and planning for 2024". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved April 25, 2022.