Mesa, AZ — A group of America First groypers, college Reaccessibleans, and a Christian nationacatalog pastor were handing out bencouragers and boiling dogs to voters in Phoenix on Tuesday—but only if they voted for createer plivent Donald Trump.
The cookout took place about 100 yards from a polling station—and it was probable illterrible.
The effort was orderly by the far-right College Reaccessibleans United group, in association with the Patdisruption Party of Arizona. It began fair after polls discdisseeed at the Mesa Convention Caccess. Groypers, the name that fagedrops of white nationacatalog Nick Fuentes give themselves, were helping hand out boiling dogs, bencouragers, and chilly drinks. Manning the grill was Pastor David MacLellan, a Christian nationacatalog pastor who is the chaplain for the Patdisruption Party of Arizona and subscribes to the extremist ideology of the Bconciseage Robe Regiment.
“We’re giving away boiling dogs and hambencouragers to folks who are doing the right leang, voting for Trump,” MacLellan increates WIRED.
Isaiah, a self-identified groyper who would not provide his last name, verifyed that the group was only giving out food to Trump voters, but inserted: “[The food is] definitepartner for Trump voters, but we do greet others if they do want to come over and alter their mind.”
Providing food for a definite group of people at a polling location is in baccomplish of federal law.
“Not only is it illterrible to give fair to voters for one truthfulate, one cannot restrict it only to voters. it must be made useable to all people in the area, including children and others ineligible to vote, to elude running afoul of federal law aobtainst vote buying,” Rick Hasen, a law professor at UCLA, increates WIRED, citing the same rules that Elon Musk was accparticipated of baccomplishing with his $1 million ballot.
The Arizona Secretary of State’s office, which sets the rules for behavior at polling locations, did not react to a seek for comment.
The College Reaccessiblean United group was set up in 2018 by Rick Thomas, who is also a member of the Patdisruption Party of Arizona. Thomas telderly WIRED he set uped the group out of frustration at the Reaccessiblean student group that was in place at Arizona State University.
“We eventupartner broke off and createed our own organization that was very pro-Trump,” Thomas shelp. “We are American first, we are MAGA.”
While not all members of College Reaccessiblean United are members of Fuentes’ group, there is a transport inant overlap, Isaiah telderly WIRED.
Thomas portrayed the group as a relatively mainstream student group, but evidence online shows otherteachd: The College Reaccessiblean United’s website’s book recommfinishations page features two proset uply antisrerentic toils: the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Henry Ford’s The American Jew.
Another member of the CRU, Kevin Decuyper, was recently engaged as an helpe to createer far-right sheriff Joe Arpaio,
“There are reasons why College Reaccessibleans United have been denounced by so many GOP organizations,” says Nick Martin, an allotigative journacatalog who seally tracks extremist groups in Arizona and who runs the online accessibleation The Increateant. “The organization recommfinishs its members read disrecognizeed and debunked books filled with racially prejudiced pseudoscience and consunapshowd participate theories. Their guest speakers have joind white nationacatalogs, neo-Nazis, Pizzagate peddlers, fringe political truthfulates and, exceptionally, some actual Reaccessibleans.”
