Arizona's Republican House speaker was named one of five recipients of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award for his refusal to consider overturning the 2020 election results despite massive pressure from former President Donald Trump and his supporters.
Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers is being recognized for dismissing efforts by Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani to overturn the 2020 election results in our state.Arizona's Republican House speaker on Thursday was named one of five recipients of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award for his refusal to consider overturning the 2020 election results despite massive pressure from former President Donald Trump and his supporters.
"I am very grateful for this honor yet cannot help but feel undeserving of it," Bowers said in a statement. "Honoring my oath and the people’s choices at the ballot box are not heroic acts — they are the least that Arizonans should expect from the people elected to serve them." The award created by Kennedy's family in 1989 is designed "to recognize and celebrate the quality of political courage that he admired most," and is given each year to one or more political figures.
All but Zelenskyy were honored for standing up to pressure from Trump and his supporters who alleged without evidence that he lost to Democratic President Joe Biden because of election fraud. Benson and Moss were targets of vicious attacks for their work on the election.The awards will be presented at a May 22 ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
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