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Ed Pilkington in Phoenix

‘Democracy is teetering’: at ground zero for Trump’s big lie in Arizona

Adrian Fontes Arizona Donald Trump Democracy Republican Abe Hamadeh Joe Biden Kris Mayes Rusty Bowers Stephen Richer
Composite of two images divided by two graphic lines, one red, one yellow. On the left is a Latino man with trim goatee, classes, collared shirt and tie, looking serious, and on the right, a brown hand and arm open what appears to be a ballot box with red starts and the beginning letters of
Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s secretary of state (left); a voter casts a ballot in Phoenix, Arizona. Photograph: Adam Riding/The Guardian (left)/Joshua Lott/Getty (right)

On a glorious spring day in Phoenix, in an atrium beneath the majestic cupola of the old state capitol, the secretary of state, Adrian Fontes, is celebrating Arizona’s 112th birthday.

He solemnly recites President William Howard Taft’s proclamation welcoming Arizona as the 48th state of the union. Speeches fete the state’s breathtaking landscapes, from the mighty Grand Canyon to the sprawling deserts of Yuma and lush green forests of Coconino. Then, a cake iced with the state seal is cut into 112 pieces and devoured in the sun-dappled Rose Garden.

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