Arizona’s election is finally, thankfully — mostly — over, and as the smoke wafts away, four women are emerging as the clear winners and losers of the year.

Oh sure, U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego secured a seat in the U.S. Senate, cementing the Democrats’ hold on Arizona’s Senate seats. But he might as well be a potted plant for all the impact he’ll have in the nation’s now-crimson Capitol.

No, if you’re looking for the real winner of this election, look no further than Gina Swoboda, chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party.

Swoboda is not a household name, like her predecessors.

Like Kelli Ward, who ran the party into the ground during her tenure. Or Jeff DeWit, who resigned after Kari Lake secretly taped him asking what it would take to keep her out of the Senate race (though DeWit, too, is a winner if you consider complete and utter vindication a thing.)

Swoboda was tapped to replace DeWit in February, endorsed by Trump and a who’s who of the hard right. She’s a former state elections official who also worked on Trump’s and Lake’s previous campaigns and later served as an adviser to the state Senate Elections Committee.

That’s the one chaired by Sen. Wendy Rogers, who never met an election conspiracy theory she didn’t monetize with her endless fundraising letters crying “fraud.”

But it turns out, Swoboda is no Kelli Ward wannabe.

She inherited a party that was basically broke and splintered — obsessed with supposedly........

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