Arizona Republicans chose a new party chair on Saturday, a move that tightened the grip on the state party hierarchy by far-right supporters of former President Donald J. Trump and that came days after a scandal that forced the last chairman to resign.
Ms. Swoboda, whom Mr. Trump endorsed on Friday, won an overwhelming majority of votes in an election of state party officials held at the party’s required annual meeting in Phoenix.
The vote was delayed by a lengthy debate over a motion to ban the use of electronic tabulators — mistrusted by many election deniers in the party — to count the ballots.
Kari Lake, a far-right candidate for U.S. Senate and close ally of Mr. Trump who had a central role in Mr. DeWit’s fall, took to the stage on Saturday to nominate Ms. Swoboda.
But she was met with a din of boos and heckling from the crowd, an apparent rebuff to her involvement in the scandal.
Persons:
Donald J, Gina Swoboda, Trump, Jeff DeWit, Swoboda, Kari Lake, DeWit’s
Organizations:
Arizona Republicans, Trump, Mr, U.S . Senate
Locations:
Arizona, Phoenix