Jake Hoffman (Arizona politician)

Jake Hoffman is an American politician who is one of the Arizona state representatives in Arizona's 12th district. He was elected to the seat after incumbent Republican Warren Petersen decided to run for the Arizona Senate.[1] He and incumbent Travis Grantham won in a two–seat election in 2020, both defeating Democrat Kristin Clark by over 85,000 votes.[2]

Jake Hoffman
Member of the Arizona House of Representatives from the 12th District
Assumed office
January 11, 2021
Serving with Travis Grantham
Preceded byWarren Petersen
Personal details
Political partyRepublican
Alma materArizona State University
Northwest Christian University

Hoffman runs a digital-marketing company, Rally Forge, that paid teen-agers to post thousands of propaganda messages under the teens’ accounts, and others under assumed personae, claiming that mail-in ballots would “lead to fraud,” and that Democrats planned to steal the Presidency. In 2016, the company fabricated a politician—complete with a doctored photograph—to run as an Independent write-in candidate. The Guardian reported that Rally Forge also formed a fake left-wing front group, America Progress Now, which promoted Green Party candidates online in 2018, apparently to hurt Democrats in several races. Rally Forge was banned from Facebook in 2020 when Hoffman was permanently suspended by Twitter. As of 2021, he is the vice-chair of the Arizona House's Committee on Government and Elections.[3][4][5]

References
  1. "2020 Arizona State Senate – District 12 Election Results". Shreveport Times.
  2. "2020 Arizona State House – District 12 Election Results". USA Today.
  3. Wong, Julia Carrie (June 11, 2021). "Revealed: rightwing firm posed as leftist group on Facebook to divide Democrats". The Guardian.
  4. Mayer, Jane (August 2, 2021). "The Big Money Behind the Big Lie". The New Yorker.
  5. "Analysis of an October 2020 Facebook Takedown Linked to U.S. Political Consultancy Rally Forge". cyber.fsi.stanford.edu.
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