This Trump supporter is an Arizona native and when she found out her state was going blue, drove home early from her Vegas vacation because she was convinced there was fraud. “I don’t believe it,” she says. “There’s no way this state is blue”pic.twitter.com/3axYz6P3IB
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Trump supporters here in Maricopa have been heckling the media because they believe they’re hiding ballots in their cars, especially since the license plates are from out of state (bc they’re rentals) “I’m tired of being nice,” one guy shoutspic.twitter.com/mf6hr10JaU
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They’ve also been freaking out over big trucks driving by, like this Enterprise one. This woman says she’s been filming them going by bc she believes, without evidence, that they’re moving ballots.pic.twitter.com/bN3AQuiFy3
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The crowd outside the Maricopa counting center thinned significantly by this evening, leaving a unique assortment of attendees, including a couple who arrived with a flute and pipe to help cleanse the bad news vibes from the areapic.twitter.com/Wu6F5FJVqF
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One thing I keep hearing from Trump supporters here is that this is a massive “patriot movement” born from many regional and local groups that do their own thing but have been congealing together more and more “It’s a grassroots of different groups,” Alan Nichols of Tucson saidpic.twitter.com/JJoLDGgxZ3
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I am back at the Maricopa voting center, where hundreds of Trump supporters are still here congregating. A group of Biden supporters are across the street and have been chanting and cheering. I walked up right as this heated exchange unfoldedpic.twitter.com/Cydj6Cxskn
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This group of Latina women have been yelling back and forth with Trump supporters for about 30 minutes, Itzel said. The 20-year-old has been confronting them about not wearing masks and supporting a racist presidentpic.twitter.com/Nz6Dhoi4R8
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Things have escalated quickly here. Trump supporters keep coming over and have surrounded the small group of younger Latina women. They’re 17-20 years old and groups are screaming at each other about racism and the future of this countrypic.twitter.com/mWEswoRvrx
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Right-wing figures like Baked Alaska and Catboy Kami are instigating and inflaming this situation. Some armed Boogloo boys have also crossed over and are watchingpic.twitter.com/peHVU2eXPp
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The tense conversations started between a few Trump supporters and the Biden group, focusing on COVID, why this group was waving a Mexican flag, and conspiracy theories about Biden being a pedophilepic.twitter.com/DY19DZEEEu
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More snippets of the clash between the young Latina group of Biden supporters and Trump supporters, which were partly inflamed by right-wing social media personalitiespic.twitter.com/ht2APZGBlY
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Police were not getting involved. This armed Trump supporter said he and several others were working as volunteer private security and came over to ensure the young Biden group were safe, and they did. He said police couldn’t get involved because there were no acts of aggressionpic.twitter.com/xydm053aj7
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Other Trump supporters, including Q wolf, came over to try and de-escalate the clash and pull the confrontational right-wingers back across the streetpic.twitter.com/OEKxCLME1y
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After things calmed down a little bit Itzel and the other young women said the experience was scary and sad, but they were not about to back down, get intimidated, or stop speaking their minds bc they were standing up for their immigrant parents, who Trump tried to get rid ofpic.twitter.com/3WQmR3HTiT
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Feeling victorious, they erupted into a “No More Years!” chant and dancedpic.twitter.com/QXsqUqZh4C
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The young Latina women say they’re not her protesting, they’re “celebrating” “Four years ago they told us to deal with it. We dealt with it. Now it’s their turn”pic.twitter.com/1MFSpeLr7U
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Quite a difference in vibes here at the Maricopa voting center. Same rally. Different street cornerspic.twitter.com/wrUWkaWkjJ
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Meanwhile, this is happening rn at the Trump rally outside the Maricopa voting centerpic.twitter.com/jlh1hployV
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Today was a day. On this note I am

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Swung by the Maricopa voting center on my way out of Phoenix this morning. Not a Trump flag or supporter in sight. What a difference 24 hrs makespic.twitter.com/6oah2BzPFq
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Watching these young Latina women stand their ground during the intense, often vitriolic clash with Trump supporters was something They'd spent the last 4 years staying quiet, out of fear. Now, they're not scared anymore And they have a lot to sayhttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/biden-supporter-trump-clash-maricopa-county …
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from outside the Maricopa voting center. This demonstration has been going since 9 am and some of the organizers say they plan to park it here until results are announced and even after