Jonathan Wilton Lines (born May 1970) is an American businessman and former chairman of the

Arizona Republican Party The Arizona Republican Party is the affiliate of the Republican Party in Arizona. Its headquarters are in Phoenix. The party currently controls four of Arizona's nine U.S. House seats, both houses of the state legislature, and the governorship ...

. Lines is the general manager of Lines & Lundgreen Roofing and Insulation Inc.

Personal life

Lines has 11 children. He is a member of

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Arizona Republican Party

Lines took over the party after 2016, a difficult presidential election year. While

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won the Arizona presidential primary-preference election, the state elected almost all

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-supporting delegates to the convention. Chairman Lines was then faced with the challenge of uniting the party before the mid-term elections. In 2019, Lines lost re-election to former state Senator

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References

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