Joe Arpaio, the former Phoenix sheriff who rose to prominence for his harsh immigration policies, lost another election Friday, The Associated Press reported.
Arpaio, 88, lost the Republican primary for Maricopa County Sheriff, a position he held for 24 years until his 2016 defeat at the hands of current officeholder Paul Penzone, a Democrat.
In between his two sheriff defeats, Arpaio finished third in the Republican primary for one of Arizona's U.S. Senate seats in 2018.
Arpaio was also defeated by the law itself in 2017 and expected to serve prison time for violating court orders that had required him to stop being racist. President Donald Trump pardoned him instead.
Jerry Sheridan, Arpaio's former right-hand man, won Friday's sheriff primary, the AP reported. He'll square off against Penzone in November's general election.
Arpaio's electoral opponents have pointed out that he cost taxpayers $147 million in legal fees with his intentionally controversial policies and that his office botched more than 400 sex-crimes cases in his two dozen years in charge.
