Podcaster Joe Rogan asserted that “real fraud” happened in Arizona’s 2022 elections, calling the breakdown of election equipment on that day “shenanigans” that impacted the outcome of the race.
Rogan made his remarks about the Arizona election during a Thursday interview with Valuetainment founder Patrick Bet-David on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” asking the entrepreneur, “How much election fraud do you think is real,” before adding, “because I don’t think it’s zero.”
“We know that there’s some irregularities,” said Rogan, quickly adding, “That Kari Lake stuff in Arizona that they’re trying to dismiss? It doesn’t look like that’s invalid, it looks like there’s real fraud there. It looks like there’s some real shenanigans there.” A clip of Rogan’s statements about the Arizona election went viral on X, formerly Twitter, with more than 1.1 million views at press time.
Rogan also alluded to reports about the many voting machine errors, largely in Republican strongholds, that forced voters to wait in line for hours on Election Day.
“There was voting machines that weren’t working properly, and it seems very suspicious that a lot of them were in Republican areas.” Rogan added, “I think there’s coordinated efforts to make sure that people get elected.”
Ultimately, ballot printer issues affected more than 70 vote centers on Election Day last year, resulting in long lines as tabulator machines failed to read some voters’ ballots. A report commissioned by Maricopa County cast blame on printers purchased from Oki Electronic Industry, a Japanese electronics company, which in turn called the report “factually inaccurate.”
BREAKING: Joe Rogan says there was real fraud in the Kari Lake election pic.twitter.com/eDmPWAMgu5
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 3, 2023
