Jake Hoffman (Arizona politician)

Jake Hoffman is an Arizona state senator in Arizona's 15th district. He was previously a 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]

Jake Hoffman
Member of the Arizona Senate
from the 15th district
Assumed office
January 9, 2023
Preceded byNancy Barto
Member of the Arizona House of Representatives from the 12th District
In office
January 11, 2021 – January 9, 2023
Serving with Travis Grantham
Preceded byWarren Petersen
Succeeded byStacey Travers
Personal details
Political partyRepublican
Alma materArizona State University
Northwest Christian University

Hoffman runs a digital-marketing company, Rally Forge. 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. 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, Hoffman declared himself an elector and attempted to submit documents to the National Archives and Records Administration saying that Arizona had been won by Republican candidate Donald Trump.[6] In 2022, Hoffman proposed to divide Maricopa County into three new counties, since 65% of the Arizona’s population is contained by that single county. Critics claimed that the proposal was intended to punish election officials in Maricopa County for not overturning the 2020 election results based on Trump's claims of fraud.[7]

References
  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 claim it's about revenge for 2020 — and planning for 2024". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved April 25, 2022.
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