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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">11 22 rww</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">on Election Day, Democrats braced for a red wave that could put the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/10-extremist-candidates-to-watch-on-election-day/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">GOP’s most extreme candidates</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;into office. But nearly a week later, that wave looks more like a trickle. Americans generally rejected the party’s far-right candidates, though many of these far-right candidates have yet to</span><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;accept the will of the people.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">In Michigan, Republican nominee for secretary of state&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/10-extremist-candidates-to-watch-on-election-day/#kristinakaramo" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Kristina Karamo</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/election-denier-michigan-loses-bid-run-2024-vote-state-2022-11-09/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">soundly lost</a></b><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b>&nbsp;to current Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.</b>&nbsp;Just days before the election, Karamo launched a lawsuit to try to throw out tens of thousands of votes from Detroit voters who voted by mail-in ballots, claiming that they were fraudulent. When that lawsuit to disenfranchise voters in the majority-Black, majority-Democratic city failed ahead of the election, Karamo turned her attention to Ann Arbor, where the student-heavy population waited hours in line to vote.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">In a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/KristinaKaramo/status/1590222308840714241/photo/1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">press release</a></span><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;in the wee hours last Wednesday, Karamo accused the Ann Arbor City Clerk of breaking several election laws, claiming that the clerk allowed voters to enter the line after 8 p.m. deadline, and criticized the Ann Arbor police for failing to “investigate election crimes.</span>” In a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/KristinaKaramo/status/1590194567793750019?s=20&t=oS02HCqdzpEo8iOZQx5p8w" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">tweet,</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;she took those accusations a step further, accusing the clerk of “engaging in mass election Crimes. Illegally registering people after 8pm. Registering non-Michigan citizens to vote.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“We are not election deniers or threats to democracy,” Karamo claimed in her press release. “This is a real threat to our society as it demoralizes citizens to believe that voting is pointless as their legal ballot will be nullified by fraud.”</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Karamo issued another&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/KristinaKaramo/status/1590767128302362624/photo/1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">press release</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;Thursday in which she doubled down on her accusations of fraud and&nbsp;<b>called for her supporters to “Standby,” promising, “there’s much more to come.”</b></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">As we&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/how-the-right-is-sowing-doubt-in-our-elections/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">reported</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;ahead of Election Day, Karamo made election denialism a key component of her campaign and was expected to allege fraud should she lose. The Wayne County judge who dismissed her lawsuit targeting Detroit voters said Karamo provided “no evidence” of her allegations.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Other clear losses for the GOP’s extreme candidates were seen in Maryland, where&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/10-extremist-candidates-to-watch-on-election-day/#michaelperoutka" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Michael Peroutka</a></b><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b>,</b>&nbsp;the Confederacy-supporting, Dixie-singing Christian nationalist,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/08/maryland-attorney-general-results-brown-peroutka/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">soundly lost</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;his bid for attorney general to Democrat Anthony G. Brown. Ahead of Election Day, a top aide to Peroutka had encouraged voters to get in line to vote late in the day—a move&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.marylandmatters.org/2022/10/31/top-peroutka-aide-encouraged-supporters-to-form-long-lines-late-on-election-day/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">denounced</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;by the Maryland Democratic Party as “plotting to create chaos and laying the groundwork to challenge the upcoming election.” It didn’t matter, as Peroutka’s loss was&nbsp;</span><a href="https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/congressman-anthony-brown-elected-maryland-attorney-general-michael-peroutka-league-of-the-south" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">called</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;by the Associated Press as early as 11 p.m. on Election Day.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b>Peroutka didn’t concede.&nbsp;</b>In a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/derekwillis/status/1590714466764668928" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">press release</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">, Peroutka claimed that “many odd and suspicious incidents were reported by poll watchers.” He concluded with this: “I plan to investigate these strange occurrences and I do not plan to concede the race.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/10-extremist-candidates-to-watch-on-election-day/#dougmastriano" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Doug Mastriano</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">, the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/doug-mastriano-pennsylvania-republican-primary-democracy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">election-denying</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/mastriano-pennsylvania-christian-nationalism-donald-trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Christian nationalism-promoting</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, lost by more than 14 percentage points to Democrat Josh Shapiro. He, too, refused to concede after the Associated Press called the race in favor of Shapiro,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gop-gubernatorial-candidates-implementing-the-2020-election-denial-playbook-1234627435/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">saying</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;that he still “had faith.” But by Sunday, that faith was gone, and he finally&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/dougmastriano/status/1591925822268788737" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">acknowledged,</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;“there is no right course but to concede,” all while still calling for “election reform.”</span><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Next door, in Ohio, a Trump-endorsed candidate had a win. Trump sycophant&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/10-extremist-candidates-to-watch-on-election-day/#jdvance" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">J.D. Vance</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;beat out Democrat Tim Ryan for that state’s Senate seat. Vance has spread the racist great replacement theory and urged Trump to rule with an iron fist should he return to the presidency.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Speaking to supporters in Youngstown, Ryan conceded the race, calling it a “privilege … because the way this country operates is that when you lose an election, you concede.” That appeared to be a jab at those Republican candidates who have signaled their refusal to concede and instead baselessly suggested electoral fraud was afoot.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Nowhere was that signal&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/arizona-election-deniers-see-cheaters-and-crooks-in-delayed-results/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">clearer</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;than in Arizona, where GOP nominees alleged that a printer error in Maricopa County was part of Democrats’ efforts to delay GOP wins or even take them away.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">On election night, GOP nominee for governor&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/10-extremist-candidates-to-watch-on-election-day/#karilake" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Kari Lake</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;lashed out at “incompetent” election workers, attacked the “fake media,” and asked her supporters to not let “cheaters and crooks” sow doubt about her supposedly forthcoming win. Throughout the week, Lake continued attacking the media and election officials, with pundits and activists like Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk echoing her claims.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">As of Monday afternoon, Lake continues to trail Democrat Katie Hobbs by 1 percentage point, with 93 percent of the vote counted. Ahead of the election, Lake had suggested the only way Hobbs could win would be by stealing the election.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Other election-denying Republican candidates trailing their Democratic opponents joined in alleging fraud.&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/10-extremist-candidates-to-watch-on-election-day/#blakemasters" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Blake Masters</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">, who has perpetuated a version of the racist replacement theory, found himself behind Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly by nearly 6 percentage points when the AP called the race in favor of Kelly Saturday night.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Masters had spent Election Day suggesting that the printer error in Maricopa County could’ve been malicious. He&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/bgmasters/status/1590003525530308610" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">tweeted</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;on Election Day, “Hard to know if we’re seeing incompetence or something worse. All we know right now is that the Democrats are hoping you will get discouraged and go home.”&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Masters&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/bgmasters/status/1591475417646596109" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">declined to concede</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;on Saturday, saying that he wanted “every legal vote” to be counted first.&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Abe Hamadeh, an Arizona Republican running for attorney general who has&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2022/10/24/attorney-general-candidate-abe-hamadeh-tweets-arguably-disqualifying/10586112002/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">denied the 2020 election results,</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;trails Democrat Kris Mayes by less than a percentage point with 93 percent of the vote counted as of&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-arizona-attorney-general.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Monday afternoon</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">.&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Speaking to supporters on election night, he said that “incompetent” election officials threatened American democracy. He took that message further over the weekend.&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">“REMEMBER: 72%+ of the votes on Election Day in person were Republican. When you have 30% of the tabulating machines failing, causing people to leave the lines and give up. This is voter suppression targeting a political party,” Hamadeh&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/AbrahamHamadeh?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">said</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;in a post on Twitter Saturday.&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Hamadeh also&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/AbrahamHamadeh/status/1591495408605224965?s=20&t=717elz1gjVDoIdjfK2WJSw" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">shared</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;an Uncover DC story authored by Tracy Beanz, a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/red-pill-rally-in-dc-unites-far-right-conspiracy-theories-and-apocalyptic-religion/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">QAnon conspiracy theorist</a></b><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;influencer and self-declared investigative journalist, to try to bolster his allegations. Beanz claimed that an election judge said that the printer error in Maricopa County was no error. “In my opinion, the machines were programmed to do this, and it was all planned,” Beanz quoted the election judge as saying. This story is gaining steam on far-right platforms and outlets, including&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/maricopa-county-election-judge-believes-machines-programmed-reject-ballots-election-day/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">The Gateway Pundit</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/10-extremist-candidates-to-watch-on-election-day/#markfinchem" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Mark Finchem</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">, the self-declared member of the far-right extremist Oath Keepers, also fell short of expectations in his bid to become secretary of state in Arizona. Finchem was deeply involved in the so-called “Stop the Steal” campaign, a disinformation campaign aimed at overturning the 2020 presidential election and was&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2021/02/10/there-wouldnt-have-been-a-stopthesteal-campaign-in-arizona-without-mark-finchem/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">credited</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;with bringing the campaign to Arizona. He lost to Democrat Adrian Fontes, a former Maricopa County election official, by more than 5 percentage points. F<b>inchem refused to concede.&nbsp;</b></span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">“It is completely ridiculous that the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FakeNews?src=hashtag_click" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">#FakeNews</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;is calling the elections in Arizona when there are 390k (many election day) ballots outstanding. RIDICULOUS!” Finchem&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/RealMarkFinchem/status/1591504471804489728" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">tweeted</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;after the AP called the race Saturday.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">On Twitter, Finchem predictably alleged fraud. He shared stories from the Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft that&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/impossible-maricopa-officials-now-report-democrats-independents-voted-katie-hobbs-election-day/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">claimed it was impossible</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;for Maricopa County to vote Democrat; he&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/RealMarkFinchem/status/1592160328795979781?s=20&t=QEeQWf5LHI0fXUaIQnyz8A" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">accused</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;Democrats of “ballot harvesting” and Fontes&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/RealMarkFinchem/status/1592154781832957957" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">of</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;“laundering money”&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/RealMarkFinchem/status/1592154613066891265" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">from</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;billionaire philanthropist George Soros; and he&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/RealMarkFinchem/status/1591865885832417280?s=20&t=QEeQWf5LHI0fXUaIQnyz8A" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">peddled</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;a money laundering conspiracy theory that implicated Ukraine.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">In Nevada,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/10-extremist-candidates-to-watch-on-election-day/#jimmarchant" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Jim Marchant</a></b><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b>, the QAnon-adhering election-denying secretary of state candidate, lost to Democrat Francisco Aguilar&nbsp;</b>in the race to become in charge of that state’s elections by about 3 percentage points. When Marchant, who put together a coalition of likeminded “America First” secretary of state candidates, lost Saturday, it marked a string of losses for his coalition. Only&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/us/politics/jim-marchant-cisco-aguilar-nevada.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">one</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;survived in Indiana. Marchant, who claimed his failed 2020 congressional bid was stymied by fraud, has&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/13/trump-election-deniers-accept-2022-results-00066626" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">yet to concede</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">.</span><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Among the upsets for far-right candidates is&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/10-extremist-candidates-to-watch-on-election-day/#joekent" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Joe Kent</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">, who received&nbsp;</span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-race-and-ethnicity-be616cae0967ca6ee9c78ac1efee8e31" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">support</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;from white nationalists and has blamed the attack on the U.S. Capitol on “deep state provocateurs.” Kent&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/13/democrat-marie-gluesenkamp-perez-wins-key-house-seat-in-washington-state" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">lost</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;to Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in Washington state in a close race called by the AP Saturday.&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">In the primaries, Kent had beat out incumbent Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, one of 10 Republicans who had voted for Trump’s second impeachment. But moderate Republicans who were alarmed by Kent’s extremism threw their support behind Gluesenkamp Perez ahead of Election Day. On Saturday, Kent refused to concede and told his supporters to&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/election-results-congress-senate-house-11-11-2022/h_347b0d29649caabdd9103ca33e640625" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">correct</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;their mail-in ballots.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">“What the media says is irrelevant, its another narrative designed to stop voters from ballot curing & to force me to concede – not gonna happen,” Kent&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/joekent16jan19/status/1591607118603640833" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">wrote</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;on Twitter Saturday. “We’re on the streets ballot curing. The fight goes on while the talking heads talk.”&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">In response to Kent’s loss, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1591684328211517440" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">tweeted</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">, “White supremacy just doesnt win races like it did in 1921.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Another shock occurred in Colorado’s 3rd District. Rep. Lauren Boebert, the gun-toting, QAnon-believing Christian nationalist of Colorado, appeared to be a shoo-in. But by Wednesday morning, she was trailing her Democratic opponent, Adam Frisch. On Monday, with 99 percent of the vote counted, Boebert gained the lead but by less than 1,000 votes. The race has yet to be decided and could well head to a recount should either candidate win by less than 0.5 percent.&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Election deniers did get a win in Wisconsin.&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/10-extremist-candidates-to-watch-on-election-day/#ronjohnson" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Ron Johnson</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/politics/ron-johnson-wisconsin-midterm-reelection/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">narrowly retained</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;his Senate seat after a group of right-wing billionaires funded a series of racially charged ads attacking Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes. Johnson had supported Trump’s efforts to remain in power after the former president lost the 2020 election.&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">In other notable news, throughout the country, voters voted to enshrine abortion rights into their state constitutions, and in Kentucky, voters rejected a measure that would have prevented that right from being enshrined in that state’s constitution.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">As of Monday, Democrats retain control of the Senate. The House still remains undecided, with 17 races to be called. And though it appears likely Republicans will gain control of the House, it will be a smaller majority than Minority Speaker Kevin McCarthy wanted.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Trump’s candidates fared poorly at the polls; it turns out the biggest Trump sycophants made for candidates of&nbsp;questionable quality, as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested in August. Notably, Trump-endorsed candidates in Arizona—where the so-called Stop the Steal campaign of 2020&nbsp;found solid footing and where right-wing organizations like&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona-investigations/2022/11/02/turning-point-helped-kelli-ward-trump-republicans-seize-arizona-gop/8172376001/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Turning Point USA</a><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;poured their resources—underperformed. If Trump Republicans can’t claim that state, what does that say about Americans’ appetite for Trumpian politics?&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Of course, far-right candidates are suggesting that fraud has played a part in their poor performance at the polls and are refusing to concede. Such claims of fraud were expected, but unlike 2020, these baseless allegations don’t appear to be catching steam nationwide.</font></span></p></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">jim m running</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many Republican candidates who denied or questioned the 2020 results have lost their races</font></font></font></font></div><div>Adam Edelman - 40m ago</div><div>
</div><div>Many Republican candidates who denied or questioned the results of the 2020 election lost their races for positions that oversee, defend and certify elections in crucial battlegrounds.</div><div>
</div><div>But the races involving such candidates in Arizona and Nevada remain too early to call, according to NBC News.</div><div>
</div><div>So-called election deniers ran in Senate and House races, as well for statewide offices that have major influence over elections, such as governor, secretary of state and attorney general.</div><div>
</div><div>But those candidates lost the races for governor, secretary of state and attorney general in Michigan; governor and Senate in Pennsylvania; Senate in New Hampshire and Wisconsin; and secretary of state in Minnesota and New Mexico.</div><div>
</div><div>Chuck Todd explains why election deniers lost in tight races</div><div>They won, however, in the races for the Senate in Ohio and Wisconsin, as well as attorney general in Florida and Ohio.</div><div>
</div><div>In many of the races involving election deniers, candidates sought offices with the power to affect elections; some ran in pivotal battleground states where presidential election results have an outsize impact on the Electoral College outcome — and thus who wins the White House.</div><div>
</div><div>Senate candidates who questioned the 2020 result lost in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania</div><div>In New Hampshire, Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan defeated Republican Don Bolduc, NBC News projects. Bolduc said during his primary that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, but he backtracked in recent weeks.</div><div>
</div><div>In Pennsylvania, Republican Mehmet Oz lost the Senate race to Democrat John Fetterman, according to NBC News.</div><div>
</div><div>Oz walked a finer line about his stance on the 2020 election. He said at a GOP primary debate in April that “we cannot move on from the 2020 election.” But more recently, he said he would have affirmed President Joe Biden’s victory in the Senate if he’d held office on Jan. 6, 2021.</div><div>
</div><div>Senators are responsible for affirming the certification of election results in their states — a tradition that was routine until Jan. 6, when supporters of Trump broke into the Capitol to try to prevent Biden’s win from being finalized.</div><div>
</div><div>Election deniers won Senate races in Ohio and Wisconsin</div><div>In the Ohio Senate race, J.D. Vance, who said this year, “I think the election was stolen from Trump,” defeated Democrat Tim Ryan, NBC News projects.</div><div>
</div><div>In the Wisconsin Senate race, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson beat Democrat Mandela Barnes. Johnson’s office was involved in an attempt to deliver fake elector materials to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6. Johnson has acknowledged texting with one of Trump’s attorneys before and after his staff tried to deliver a package to Pence, but he has also said he knew nothing about the fake elector scheme.</div><div>
</div><div>Johnson initially said he’d object to certifying the Electoral College vote in key states on Jan. 6 but changed his mind after the riot and voted to certify.</div><div>
</div><div>Candidates who questioned the 2020 election result lost in seven key statewide races</div><div>The offices of governor, secretary of state and attorney general hold the power to fundamentally transform elections — including how they are administered and overseen, as well as a multitude of ways the results are defended and certified. Changes to those processes could affect the election in 2024, when Donald Trump might run.</div><div>
</div><div>In Michigan, election denying candidates lost their races for governor, secretary of state and attorney general.</div><div>
</div><div>Republican Tudor Dixon — who has said the 2020 election was stolen — lost t to Democratic incumbent Gretchen Whitmer in the race for governor, NBC News projects. In Michigan's secretary of state race, Democratic incumbent Jocelyn Benson defeated Republican Kristina Karamo.</div><div>
</div><div>After having worked as a Detroit poll challenger in 2020, Karamo claimed she witnessed fraudulent absentee ballot-counting. She later testified before a Michigan Senate committee investigating election fraud allegations, which found no evidence of widespread or systematic fraud. Karamo has also said she believes that Trump won Michigan in 2020 (Biden won the state by more than 154,000 votes) and that left-wing anarchists planned the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.</div><div>
</div><div>In Michigan's attorney general race, Republican Matthew DePerno — who espoused debunked conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 election result in Michigan — lost to Democratic incumbent Dana Nessel. DePerno filed a suit alleging sweeping voter fraud in the state, but both a state trial court judge and a state appeals court judge dismissed the suit.</div><div>
</div><div>In the election for governor in Pennsylvania, Republican Doug Mastriano, who repeatedly doubled down on false claims about the 2020 election, lost to Democrat Josh Shapiro, NBC News projects. Pennsylvania’s governor appoints the secretary of state, so the race packed an especially strong punch regarding the future of honoring election results.</div><div>
</div><div>In Wisconsin, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers defeated Republican Tim Michels, NBC News projects. Michels at times signaled he would consider decertifying Biden’s win in the state, and he repeated the false claim the 2020 election in the state was rife with fraud. Although Michels has waffled at times, he said during the primary that he was open to efforts to decertify Biden’s win in the state, even though there is no legal path to rescind a state’s electoral votes.</div><div>
</div><div>Election deniers also lost their races for secretary of state in Minnesota and New Mexico, NBC News projects.</div><div>
</div><div>In Minnesota, Democratic incumbent Steve Simon defeated Republican Kim Crockett, who called the 2020 election results in Minnesota illegitimate and said the election was “rigged.”</div><div>
</div><div>In New Mexico, Democratic Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver defeated Republican challenger Audrey Trujillo, an outspoken election denier, NBC News projects. Trujillo called Biden’s win in 2020 a “coup,” according to The New York Times.</div><div>
</div><div>In Georgia, meanwhile, Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state who refused to bow to pressure from Trump to overturn the 2020 election, won re-election, NBC News projects.</div><div>
</div><div>Election deniers won two attorney general races in battleground states</div><div>In Florida and Ohio, Republican attorneys general Ashley Moody and Dave Yost won their re-election campaigns, NBC News projects. State attorneys general can launch or defend against election lawsuits that could affect how and which votes are counted.</div><div>
</div><div>Moody joined a lawsuit that sought to prevent four other states from certifying their 2020 election results. Yost filed briefs in support of the lawsuit.</div><div>
</div><div>Overall, at least 43 election deniers ran for governor, secretary of state or attorney general across 27 states, according to States United Action, a nonpartisan group that closely tracked such candidates throughout the 2022 election season. Some of those candidates promised or hinted at taking actions that could contribute to an even more robust effort to overturn the next presidential election.</div><div>
</div><div>Elections experts have said that an election denier who takes a key position in a battleground state could affect elections for years. For that reason, Democrats running against them argued that their opponents were dangers to the country and sought to make the election a referendum on democracy. However, over the course of the general election campaign, many GOP candidates backed off or waffled on direct claims of a stolen election.</div><div>
</div><div>Races in Arizona and Nevada are too early to call</div><div>Arizona is one of three states where election deniers are the GOP nominees for governor, secretary of state and attorney general. All three races remain too early to call, according to NBC News.</div><div>
</div><div>Kari Lake, the nominee for governor, has been in a tight race against Democrat Katie Hobbs, and Mark Finchem ran against Democrat Adrian Fontes for secretary of state. For attorney general, Abraham Hamadeh is up against Democrat Kris Mayes. All three have questioned Biden’s presidential victory or falsely said the election was stolen from Trump.</div><div>
</div><div>Finchem has ties to QAnon and the Oath Keepers, and he attended Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.</div><div>
</div><div><b>In Nevada, Jim Marchant — a Trump-endorsed election denier — ran against Democrat Cisco Aguilar for secretary of state. That race is also too early to call, according to NBC News.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Marchant has promised to get rid of all electronic voting machines, voting by mail and early voting. Instead, he has vowed to institute a “traceable paper-ballot-only” system that would rely only on hand counts. Marchant has also said he wouldn’t have certified the 2020 results in the state, which Biden won.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In an interview this year, Marchant said that if he is secretary of state in 2024, he won’t rule out advocating for an alternate slate of Trump electors if Trump is on the ballot and loses because of what he determines to be voter irregularities.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Marchant pushed for an alternate slate of electors in 2020 </span>— a scheme now under investigation by the Justice Department. In addition, Marchant leads the pro-Trump America First Secretary of State Coalition, a group of candidates who have all falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen (members include Karamo, Finchem, Lake, Trujillo and Mastriano).</div><div>
</div><div>On the Senate side, Republicans Blake Masters in Arizona and Adam Laxalt in Nevada have both denied or questioned the 2020 outcome. Masters said, “I think Trump won in 2020,” and Laxalt played a prominent role in the Trump campaign’s legal efforts to overturn the election results in the state. Both races are too early to call, according to NBC News.</div><div>
</div><div>Meanwhile, Herschel Walker's Senate race against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock will advance to a runoff, NBC News projects, since neither candidate topped the 50% required under state law.</div><div>
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</div><div>exactly one month before Election Day, Republican Jim Marchant stood alongside Donald Trump at a rally in Nevada, boasting about a “coalition of secretary of state candidates,” who apparently intend to “fix the whole country.”</div><div>
</div><div>This was not encouraging. As we discussed soon after, Marchant has been unreserved when pushing ridiculous ideas — and not just about Trump’s 2020 race. The Nevada Republican, who’s been accused of having QAnon ties, has also told Nevadans, “Your vote hasn’t counted for decades. You haven’t elected anybody. The people that are in office have been selected.”</div><div>Marchant has also insisted that prominent Democratic lawmakers — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, et al. — shouldn’t be seen as having won legitimate elections, either, despite their landslide victories.</div><div>
</div><div>So, how’d his “coalition” do? As NPR reported, Marchant’s extremist ally in Michigan fared poorly.</div><div>
</div><div>With just about all of the votes tallied, Karamo lost by about 14 points. In Minnesota, Republican Kim Crockett, who also echoed Trump’s lies, also lost her bid for secretary of state by nearly 10 points. The same goes for New Mexico’s Audrey Mendonca-Trujillo, who also lost by double digits.</div><div>
</div><div>Pennsylvania’s Doug Mastriano ran for governor, not secretary of state, but in the Keystone State, governors appoint secretaries of state, and in this case, the right-wing nominee vowed to name a likeminded ally to the office. Mastriano, of course, lost his statewide bid badly.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>For democracy advocates, that’s the good news. The bad news is, there were other contests.</b></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>5. Jocelyn Benson wins second term as Michigan secretary of state</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Whitmer and her Democratic allies, including Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, repeatedly stressed that democracy was on the ballot in their state — and that message clearly resonated with Michigan voters. Benson’s GOP opponent Kristina Karamo, a far-right MAGA conspiracy theorist adored by QAnon supporters, didn’t prevail. On Election Night, Benson declared victory, enjoying roughly a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/secretary-state-jocelyn-benson-declares-victory-over-kristina-karamo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">12 percent lead over Karamo</a>&nbsp;in the vote count and pointing out that an election denier would have been in charge of Michigan’s elections had she won.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Benson told supporters, “In this election, democracy was on the ballot. Our right to vote was on the ballot. And tonight, democracy won here in Michigan.”</p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/gop-secretary-of-state-candidates-mark-finchem-marchant-karamo-scheduled-to-appear-with-a-white-nationalist-and-conspiracy-theorists/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">David Corn @ Mother Jones</a>: GOP Secretary of State Candidates Scheduled to Appear with a White Nationalist and Conspiracy Theorists.</font></li></ul></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an ah 10 22</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In QAnon circles, some far-right conspiracy theorists believe that Juan O. Savin, a.k.a. Wayne Willott, is really John F. Kennedy Jr. — who was 38 when he was killed in a plane crash in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts in 1999. Kennedy, according to their outlandish claim, faked his own death and is now a 61-year-old influencer in the far-right QAnon movement.</span><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But Savin/Willott himself has never claimed to be President John F. Kennedy’s son. He has, however, promoted another bogus conspiracy theory: the Big Lie, falsely claiming that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump through widespread voter fraud. And Savin/Willott is the co-founder of the America First Secretary of State Coalition (AFSOSC), an organization that is trying to get fellow Big Lie promoters elected to secretary of state positions in the 2022 midterms. One of his candidates is Jim Marchant, Nevada’s Republican secretary of state nominee and AFSOSC’s other co-founder.</span><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><b><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Daily Beast’s Kelly Weill examines the progress that Savin/Willott has made in an&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-is-backing-these-secretary-of-state-candidates-in-2024-master-plan?ref=home" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">article published on October 25</a><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, noting that AFSOSC’s coal is “to place election-denying candidates in charge of states’ elections.”</span></b><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><strong style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">READ MORE:</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/qanon-gop/This%20Big%20Lie-promoting%20conspiracy%20theorist%20could%20become%20Nevada%E2%80%99s%20top%20election%20official" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>&nbsp;</strong>This Big Lie-promoting conspiracy theorist could become Nevada’s top election official</a><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">“Just weeks out from the midterms,” Weill reports, “some AFSOS-backed candidates have remained in lockstep with Savin and his allies, even as other Republicans draw away from the QAnon-aligned figures. Secretaries of state help run elections and certify their states’ election results; following Donald Trump’s refusal to accept his 2020 loss, election deniers on the right have eyed secretary of state roles as a possible way to force Republican victories.”</span><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Marchant, according to Weill, has said, “When I’m secretary of state of Nevada, we are going to fix it, and when my coalition of secretary of state candidates around the country get elected, we’re going to fix the whole country — and President Trump is going to be president again in 2024.”</span><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Weill warns that Savin/Willott’s “partnership” with Marchant “is anything but small.”</span></span><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“The AFSOSC site solicits donations through another Marchant-run group, Conservatives for Election Integrity,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Weill reports.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“That PAC has raised more than $400,000 since the beginning of the year, recent finance filings show. One of CFEI’s largest donors is the America Project, a group co-founded by election deniers and Trump pals Michael Flynn and Patrick Byrne.&nbsp;</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CFEI has spent nearly $170,000 on a Las Vegas contractor that previously made headlines for recruiting</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Proud Boys </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">to attend a rally outside a Nevada election center just days after the 2020 vote, OpenSecrets reported</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.”</span></span><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><strong style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
[READ MORE:</strong><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/qanon-followers/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">QAnon followers are focused on 'a new project' in swing states</a><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Weill continues, “Meanwhile, AFSOSC is backing candidates in multiple close races, in swing states where a partisan secretary of state could change the shape of future elections. Some of those candidates are active participants in events with Savin and other conspiracy theorists. The day after (an October 14) speech in Florida, Savin attended a&nbsp;<b>‘New Mexico Election Integrity Forum’ hosted by Lara Logan.&nbsp;</b>Also in attendance, in person or virtually, were Marchant, New Mexico secretary of state candidate Audrey Trujillo, Arizona secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem, and Michigan secretary of state candidate Kristina Karamo. All are AFSOSC candidates who have peddled conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.”</span><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Beast reporter points out that some of Savin/Willett’s AFSOSC candidates are very competitive in their races.</span><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Marchant has&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nevada-democrats-sound-alarm-election-denier-leads-secretary-state-rac-rcna50250" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">consistently polled ahead</a><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;of his Democratic opponent Cisco Aguilar,” Weill observes. “A survey from&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.azfamily.com/2022/10/19/arizonas-familyhighground-statewide-survey-finchem-holds-1-pt-lead-over-fontes-secretary-state/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Arizona’s Family and HighGround</a><span style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in mid-October found Finchem polling one point ahead of the state’s Democratic candidate.”</span><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><strong style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">READ MORE:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/doug-mastriano-2658210158/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>Doug Mastriano shredded by Philly paper for 'chilling' plans to overturn future elections</strong></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma 10 22</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CLETA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">This instance of a&nbsp;<b>CPI- and GOP-linked Fairfax County group sending material from QAnon influencers&nbsp;</b>to the county board of elections further demonstrates the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/2021-people-thought-qanon-would-go-away-instead-it-continued-fuel-attacks" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">connections between the QAnon and election denial movements</a>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Media Matters has previously documented True the Vote’s&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/how-true-vote-cultivated-relationships-qanon-influencers-target" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">collaboration</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">&nbsp;with QAnon figures, major election denial funder&nbsp;<b>Patrick Byrne’s</b>&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/former-overstock-ceo-suggests-he-collaborated-qanon-influencer-known" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">significant connections to</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">&nbsp;the QAnon community, and a QAnon influencer’s&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/qanon-influencer-involved-election-administration-candidates-coalition" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">involvement with</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">&nbsp;a coalition recruiting and aiming to elect election-denialist secretary of state candidates. And&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/deep-state-cabal-controls-elections-and-has-power-over-all-our-lives-claims" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition="transition" box-shadow="box-shadow" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" rgba="rgba" px="px" inset="inset">according to</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">&nbsp;Nevada Republican secretary of state candidate</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">&nbsp;</span><b style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Jim Marchant, the leader of that coalition, he had been “working very close” with Mitchell and CPI.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div>PUBLISHED 10/14/22</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Republican secretary of state nominees from Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, and Nevada are scheduled to attend an “election integrity forum” moderated by former CBS News correspondent and Fox Nation host Lara Logan this weekend. Those candidates are associating with a far-right conspiracy theorist who has repeatedly pushed antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish people supposedly trying to manipulate American events, from the Civil War to the assassination of presidents.&nbsp;</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>
</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>New Mexico secretary of state candidate Audrey Trujillo r</b>ecently announced that her campaign would host a “New Mexico Election Integrity Forum” on October 15 featuring Logan. The event will feature election-denying secretary of state candidates who have a history of promoting toxic rhetoric and conspiracy theories, including in the media<b>: Rayla Campbell (Massachusetts);&nbsp;</b>Mark Finchem (Arizona); Kristina Karamo (Michigan);&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Jim Marchant (Nevada);</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;and Trujillo.</span>&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Campbell is a QAnon supporter. Finchem posted QAnon propaganda on the white nationalist haven Gab. Karamo hosted an anti-LGBTQ podcast and claimed Beyoncé, Cardi B, and other musicians are tools of Satan. Marchant has forwarded bizarre conspiracy theories about a global “cabal” stealing elections. And Trujillo has claimed that Democrats and the deep state “create” school shootings so that they can “make people fearful” and “take away our guns.”&nbsp;</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Other than Campbell, all of those candidates are part of&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Marchant’s America First Secretary of State Coalition</span>,</b>&nbsp;which falsely claims that Donald Trump won the 2020 election and works with QAnon influencers. They and Logan are also connected to QAnon influencer Juan O. Savin, who has pushed conspiracy theories about 9/11 and the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><b>The New Mexico event is the latest election-denying event for Logan, who has traveled across the country moderating such events in places including Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Ohio, and Texas.&nbsp;</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Logan has increasingly associated with the QAnon community. She has also pushed numerous far-right conspiracy theories this year. Among them:&nbsp;</b></div><div>
</div><div>She claimed that Darwinism is a plot from “<b>the Rothschilds.</b>” Antisemites have long accused the Rothschilds of masterminding world events and tragedies.&nbsp;</div><div>She shared a piece claiming that Jewish people are behind “a one world government" and “central banking and big corporate money" and are the “divider and conqueror” and “the aggressor, yet always the victim." The piece also claimed the Rothschilds engineered the U.S. Civil War and the assassinations of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, and that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin purged "the Rothschild money changers.”&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><b>She claimed that January 6 was a “manufactured event. We know it was orchestrated just like Charlottesville was orchestrated.”</b></div><div>She said that the United Nations is “infiltrating 100 million people into the United States as the basis for forming a regional government instead of a national government.”</div><div>Logan has continued pushing fringe claims in recent weeks.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During a September 19 video to her Locals.com channel, Logan said people came to the United States in 1776 because they were purportedly “escaping the reach of the Rothschilds and, you know, the central bankers of today.</span>” She then proceeded to claim that the Illuminati -- a secret society that is frequently the focus of global conspiracy theories -- “were able to infiltrate” the country through seminaries and then suggested that “the same model” has been used to control government, schools, corporations, and the media.</div><div>
</div><div>Video&nbsp;</div><div>CitationFrom a September 19, 2022, video by Lara Logan</div><div>
</div><div>OFF-CAMERA ASSISTANT: From Isaiah586: “Hello, Laura. How do you come to understand this is a&nbsp;<b>spiritual battle&nbsp;</b>when so many pastors don't even get it? The church at large is asleep. God bless you.”&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>LARA LOGAN: Well, that's a very interesting question, because the church — I don’t believe the church at large is asleep. I think the church is complicit. And I'll tell you why. It's rooted in history. If you go back to the founding of this country back in 1776. Right? And you look at how this country was founded. You had people who were escaping the reach of the Rothschilds and, you know, the central bankers of today, those old families. You had them break free of their clutches and head for the colonies, right? Head into uncharted waters.<b>&nbsp;And the Illumens at the time, which are the hierarchy of the Illuminati, they allowed that to happen</b>. They had people watching this experiment to make sure that if it indeed did succeed, that they would have the ability to influence it and control it. But they didn't really have great expectations.&nbsp;</div><div>
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</div><div>The colonies, the people rise up and they say, we're not going to put up with this. We're not going to have it. And that's when the Illumens look at this and they say, well, wait a minute, now. This pesky problem is growing bigger and stronger. You know, go ahead and take care of it. And that's what they expected to happen. What they didn't expect to happen was that the colonies together would rise up and defeat their colonial masters, the British, and that they would march forward to freedom and establish the United States in 1776. And so everything that we're seeing today stems from that moment in history. Because what the Illumen then realized they had to do was to infiltrate the churches because this was the backbone of the rebellion. And what happened historically is that they struggled to infiltrate with the church leaders and the pastors and so on. So where did they turn their attention? They turned it to the seminaries, and that's where they were able to infiltrate, to infiltrate the houses of learning as opposed to the houses of worship.&nbsp;</div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And so what you talk about as the church being asleep is really a very well-funded, orchestrated takeover of the church and infiltration of the church into decay from within, which is pretty much the same model that you can see across the board. It happened in education in this country. It's happened in government. It's happened in our government institutions, from the executive branch to the Department of Justice, to the colleges, to the schools, to the teachers unions and so on and so on. And now, of course, the corporations, the PR firms, the publishing firms, the media, you can see these same patterns replicated over and over.</span>&nbsp;Because why?<b>&nbsp;Because one side has to come in darkness and in deception,&nbsp;</b>hide their true intent, mask who they really are, infiltrate what others have built, and take it over from within. Because they don't create. They copy. They counterfeit. They destroy from within. But they don't create.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>Logan made similar remarks during a September 15 appearance on the QAnon program The Mel K Show. She said that the Pilgrims were running away from the Rothschilds and that the Illuminati were fighting with the British against the colonists. She later added: “It's absolutely no different today. We're fighting exactly the same ideology and, in some cases, you know, with people like the Rothschilds, the same people even.”&nbsp;</div></div></div><div><p style="margin: 0px auto 18px; font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8em; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma 10 22</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/qanon-influencer-ties-nevada-secretary-state-candidate-suggests-las-vegas">https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/qanon-influencer-ties-nevada-secretary-state-candidate-suggests-las-vegas</a></font></div><div><div class="editorial-fullsummary" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 2.25rem; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); padding: 1.5rem 0px;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-content-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>QAnon influencer “Juan O. Savin” — who is connected to Nevada Republican secretary of state candidate Jim Marchant — falsely suggested in an online interview that the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed at least 58 people was “manufactured” and that the victims’ deaths did not happen.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While at a QAnon conference in Las Vegas in 2021, Marchant&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/2021-people-thought-qanon-would-go-away-instead-it-continued-fuel-attacks" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">revealed that</a>&nbsp;Savin, whose real name is Wayne Willott, played a role in recruiting him to run for secretary of state.</span>&nbsp;The two also helped form what is now known as the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;<b><a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/jun/07/coalition-stop-steal-republicans-aims-take-control/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">America First Secretary of State Coalition</a>&nbsp;</b></span>— a group that Marchant leads with the aim of electing Republican candidates who have made false claims of widespread voter fraud to positions that influence election administration. It includes other GOP candidates, such as Arizona secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem, Michigan secretary of state candidate Kristina Karamo, and Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano. Other candidates who had been tied to the coalition have since&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/qanon-influencer-says-he-impacted-decisions-secretary-state-candidates" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">confirmed</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/republican-secretary-state-candidate-south-carolina-collaborating-qanon" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Savin’s involvement</a>, and Savin has&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1521525571674648578" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">openly discussed</a>&nbsp;in online interviews his involvement with the coalition and its members, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1558131013645123584" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claiming</a>&nbsp;to have consulted with Karamo.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In an interview posted online on September 28, a&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/LogicallyAI/status/1384884138386276353" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">fellow QAnon figure</a>&nbsp;claimed that there would be “an illusion of a nuclear attack” with “little toys” like “CGI and all the kind of stuff they did on 9/11.” In response, Savin said that “some of the deaths are real, some of it is manufactured.” He then pointed to the Las Vegas shooting, suggesting it did not “happen the way that we were told it happened.” He then&nbsp;<a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation/2017/10/30/seven-hours-chaos-bravery-las-vegas-sunrise-hospital-after-mass-shooting/796410001/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">falsely</a>&nbsp;claimed that “there was no spike in emergency room admissions after the Las Vegas shooting.”&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Savin’s implication that the Las Vegas shooting’s death&nbsp;count was faked comes as he has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/qanon-influencer-involved-election-administration-candidates-coalition" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">repeatedly pushed 9/11<b>&nbsp;Trutherism</b></a><b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/qanon-influencer-involved-candidates-running-be-charge-elections-warns" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">threatened “civil war”</a>&nbsp;if people “move past” false claims of voter fraud in 2020</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">[</span>CitationFrom a video uploaded to<b>&nbsp;Rumble on September 28, 2022</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; 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</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mICHAEL JACO (HOST): Looks like they want to start some kind of nuclear conflict. Whether it’s going to be real, which I don’t think it will be, or whether it will be some kind of — like, we’re — like you guys are expert at, some kind of illusion, an illusion of a nuclear attack, where they show, you know, through, you know, their mainstream media forces, you know, some kind of attack. Like they’ve already started, you know, saying, “New York, you need to prepare for a nuclear event.” So they could — they could fake one. I totally believe they might fake one, just like they did 9/11, you know, CGI and all the kind of stuff they did on 9/11, you know. You know, directed energy weapons, all kind of crazy stuff that at that time, most of us didn’t realize we had that kind of technology. So, you know, they have little toys, little things they can, they can use. And I think they might use something like it. You can see [they are] talking about it. So what do you think, Juan?</font></span></p></div></div><div class="editorial-fullarticle" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 2.25rem;"><div class="field field--name-field-primary-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="media-player media-player--video" role="group" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; width: 731.463px;"><figcaption class="media-playercaption block-quote block-quote--minor" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><div class="block-quotequote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">JUAN O. SAVIN: Well, you know, the problem is, if, you know, some of the deaths are real, some of it is manufactured. D<b>id Las Vegas happen the way that we were told it happened? We look at the emergency room admissions and there was no spike in emergency room admissions after the Las Vegas shooting.</b>&nbsp;We look at the buildings collapsed on 9/11. Well, they definitely collapsed — two airplanes, three buildings, a 50-story building, one of only three buildings in the history of the world, steel frame buildings, to collapse like this. It couldn’t have happened the way that it was said that it did. So is there going to be real deaths?</font></p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma 9 22</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>QAnon influencer Juan O. Savin, who is involved in a coalition to recruit and elect election denier secretary of state candidates, has falsely claimed that the September 11 terrorist attacks were a false flag operation carried out by a United States “shadow government” agency to “manipulate the American people.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/jun/07/coalition-stop-steal-republicans-aims-take-control/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">America First Secretary of State Coalition</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">is led by Nevada Republican secretary of state nominee&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/multiple-people-seeking-run-state-elections-are-connected-qanon" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Jim Marchant</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and boasts other GOP candidates, including Arizona secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem, Michigan secretary of state candidate Kristina Karamo, and Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano. The coalition aims to elect Republican candidates who have made false claims of widespread voter fraud to positions influencing election administration.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In 2021, Marchant appeared at a QAnon conference in Las Vegas and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/2021-people-thought-qanon-would-go-away-instead-it-continued-fuel-attacks" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said that</a>&nbsp;Wayne Willott — a QAnon influencer known online as “Juan O. Savin” — helped create the coalition and recruit him to run for secretary of state</span>. Other candidates who had been tied to the coalition have since&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/qanon-influencer-says-he-impacted-decisions-secretary-state-candidates" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">confirmed</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/republican-secretary-state-candidate-south-carolina-collaborating-qanon" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Savin’s involvement</a>, and Savin has&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1521525571674648578" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">openly discussed</a>&nbsp;in online interviews his involvement with the coalition and its members, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1558131013645123584" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claiming</a>&nbsp;to have consulted with Karamo.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>While Savin has been involved with the coalition and its members —</b>&nbsp;who, if elected, could&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/2021-people-thought-qanon-would-go-away-instead-it-continued-fuel-attacks" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">play a role in</a>&nbsp;the 2024 presidential election — he has recently promoted the false claim that the September 11 terrorist attacks were an inside job caused by the United States federal government.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During recent interviews, Savin pointed to the September 11 attacks as evidence to claim that President Joe Biden would seek to delay the midterm elections with an announcement in late October, possibly by declaring martial law.</span>&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In one interview posted online on September 18, Savin&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3994235" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claimed</a>&nbsp;his “buddy Bill Cooper” — referring to a deceased&nbsp;<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2002/conspiracy-theorist-slain-police-shootout" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">militia member</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/1520431450956443649" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">influential</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona-investigations/2020/10/01/behold-pale-horse-how-william-cooper-planted-seeds-qanon-theory/3488115001/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">conspiracy theorist</a>&nbsp;— predicted an attack on the World Trade Center months before the September 11 attacks, allegedly saying that the government was “going to try and pin something on Osama bin Laden.” Savin added that “Osama bin Laden didn’t have shit to do with 9/11,” and claimed that it “was somebody’s way of conning you to get you ready so you’d accept what they wanted to do.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Savin repeated these baseless claims in multiple interviews.&nbsp;</b>In an interview posted online that same day, Savin said that Cooper was “right,” that the September 11 attacks were “staged,” and that then-Vice President&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Dick Cheney</span>&nbsp;secretly led a part of the federal “shadow government” that was involved in creating “false flags” to “manipulate the American people,” including the “9/11 stuff.[vid]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">in another interview posted online two days later, Savin went even further,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/09/23/fact-check-world-trade-center-building-7-collapsed-due-fire/10428919002/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">falsely</a>&nbsp;claiming Cheney led a “shadow government” agency that carried out “false flag” operations, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, in order to “create a threat” to “manage the American people and world opinion so that they can help move us” toward “global control</span>.” Savin cited a CIA contractor who supposedly said he went into World Trade Center Building 7 to hide “all the explosives so that they could bring Building 7 down” in a “controlled demolition.” (Savin in the interview also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3994253" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">seemed to invoke</a>&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/apollo-landing-footage-would-have-been-impossible-to-fake-a-film-expert-explains-why" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">baseless conspiracy theory</a>&nbsp;that the 1969 moon landing was staged by the late film director Stanley Kubrick.[[vid]</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">savin’s 9/11 Trutherism — which is&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1440037388659482627" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">widespread within the QAnon community</a>&nbsp;— comes as he has also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/qanon-influencer-involved-candidates-running-be-charge-elections-warns" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">threatened “civil war”</a>&nbsp;if people “move past” false claims of voter fraud in 2020. Savin’s influence has also extended outside of the coalition to include&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1540421330251694080" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">traveling with</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1550540162584973312" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claiming to have hired</a>&nbsp;far-right figure Lara Logan for “election integrity” events and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/former-overstock-ceo-suggests-he-collaborated-qanon-influencer-known" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">collaborating with</a>&nbsp;election denial funder Patrick Byrne.</font></p></div></div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>...Byrne led Overstock for 20 years before resigning in 2019 after disclosing he’d had a romantic relationship with Russian spy Maria Butina</b>, who tried to infiltrate Republican circles in the lead-up to the 2016 election. Byrne claimed, and continues to maintain, that he was working on behalf of the FBI to stymie Butina, but outside evidence hasn’t emerged to show whether that’s the case.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Byrne’s own account, he has become involved with a range of pro-Trump causes beyond his initial push to investigate the 2020 election.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He helped fund the ReAwaken America Tour,&nbsp;</b>which has drawn crowds of thousands of people skeptical about covid-19 and the 2020 election to hear speakers including Charlie Kirk, Eric Trump, and often Byrne and the Flynn brothers. He has claimed to support various groups in Florida that have fought against critical race theory. And he has said he is helping fund lawsuits brought by John Paul Mac Isaac, the Delaware laptop store owner who allegedly stumbled on a laptop left behind at the shop by Hunter Biden.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Byrne has also donated at least $88,000 to the&nbsp;</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conser­vat­ives for Elec­tion Integ­rity PAC, a group allied with the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">America First Secretary of State Coalition,</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">which supports pro-Trump candidates who, if elected, would have crucial influence over how state elections are administered.</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 6 22</font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">in Nevada, far-right MAGA Republican, QAnon ally and conspiracy theorist Jim Marchant has been a loud, aggressive promoter of the "big lie" — falsely claiming that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. A<b>nd he is now the GOP nominee for Nevada secretary of state, which means that if he defeats the Democratic nominee, attorney Cisco Aguilar, in November, he will be the state’s top election official in 2023.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On Monday, June 14, Marchant was the clear winner in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/us/politics/jim-marchant-nevada-secretary-of-state.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Nevada’s GOP secretary of state primary</a>, picking up&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/1104965309/nevada-secretary-of-state-election-results" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">38 percent of the vote</a>&nbsp;and defeating second-place candidate Jesse Haw by 18 percent.</b>&nbsp;The position Marchant is running for is presently held by Barbara Cegavske, a conservative Republican who was censured by the Nevada Republican Party for refusing to promote the "big lie" after now-President Joe Biden won the state in 2020. Cegavske, who is term-limited, maintained that there was no evidence to show that Biden didn’t win Nevada fair and square — and she was&nbsp;<a href="https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/secretary-of-state-opens-up-about-threats-she-received-after-no-evidence-of-widespread-voter-fraud-found" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">inundated with death threats</a>&nbsp;from Trump supporters after certifying Biden’s victory in Nevada.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But Marchant has stressed that had he been Nevada secretary of state in 2020, he never would have certified Biden’s victor</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">y.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Marchant is president of an organization called the America First Secretary of State Coalition, which has been promoting MAGA Republicans and Trump loyalists who are running for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/us/politics/election-deniers-midterms.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">secretary of state positions</a>&nbsp;— including Mark Finchem in Arizona and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/04/23/1094474805/michigan-gop-karamo-secretary-of-state" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Kristina Karamo in Michigan</a>. The group also promoted Rep. Jody Hice’s primary campaign&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, but that primary didn’t go well for the Trump-endorsed Hice; Raffensperger, who refused to go along with Trump’s "big lie," enjoyed a landslide victory.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In Pennsylvania, the America First Secretary of State Coalition is supporting Republican gubernatorial nominee&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/both-parties-worried-doug-mastriano/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Doug Mastriano</a>,</b>&nbsp;a “Stop the Steal” conspiracy theorist who has falsely claimed that Trump won Pennsylvania in 2020. If elected governor in November, Mastriano will have a chance to pick Pennsylvania’s next secretary of state; in Pennsylvania, the secretary of state is chosen by the governor.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The term “voter suppression” is usually used to describe all the ways in which GOP-sponsored laws at the state level are making it more difficult to vote, such as eliminating or reducing early voting and mail-in ballots —and it is no coincidence that they are targeting heavily Democratic areas.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;But what Marchant and others in the America First Secretary of State Coalition are proposing is much more dangerous than making voting more difficult or inconvenient. Marchant is part of a movement in which MAGA Republicans are trying to take over the administration of elections and be in a position to simply throw out election results they don’t like.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">One of Marchant’s main allies is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/qanons-influence-trumpified-radicalized-gop/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">QAnon extremist Wayne Willott</a>, a.k.a. Juan O. Savin, who co-founded the America First Secretary of State Coalition.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Members of QAnon were among the extremists who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, but&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-qanon-leader-could-control-key-elections-in-2024?ref=home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Willott’s involvement in QAnon</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;obviously doesn’t bother Marchant.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the 2022 midterms see a major red wave and enough MAGA Republicans are victorious at the state level, it could affect the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. MAGA secretaries of state could refuse to certify any Democratic Electoral College victories in swing states, making false claims of election fraud just as Trump’s allies did in 2020.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From Pennsylvania to Michigan to Arizona, the MAGA movement and “Stop the Steal” Republicans are determined to be in control regardless of the actual outcome of elections — and in Nevada, that includes secretary of state nominee Jim Marchant.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/big-lie-promoting-republicans-are-moving-closer-to-seizing-control-over-elections-report/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/big-lie-promoting-republicans-are-moving-closer-to-seizing-control-over-elections-report/</font></a></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The voter suppression bills passed by GOP-controlled state legislatures all over the U.S. are being slammed by Democrats for making voting more difficult by reducing or eliminating early voting or discouraging the use of mail-in ballots.&nbsp;<b>But as bad as those things are, something much more sinister and nakedly authoritarian is coming from MAGA Republicans in 2022: an effort to take control of the administration of elections, making it easier for them to simply throw out election results if they don’t like the outcome</b>. And if the results of the 2022 midterms put enough “Stop the Steal” Republicans in control of elections, they may have a chance to do exactly that in 2024.</font></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/us/politics/election-deniers-midterms.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">article published by the New York Times</a>&nbsp;on June 15, reporters Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti take a look at MAGA efforts to gain control of election systems in key swing states such as Nevada, Pennsylvania and Arizona.<b>&nbsp;Their article was published the morning after&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/jan-6-2657513063/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Jim Marchant</a>, a far-right Big Lie promoter who falsely claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, won the GOP nomination for Nevada secretary of state.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The potential for far-right Republicans to reshape the election systems of major battleground states is growing much closer to reality,” Epstein and Corasaniti warn. “As the halfway point nears of a midterm year that is vastly friendlier to Republicans, the party’s voters have nominated dozens of candidates for offices with power over the administration and certification of elections who have spread falsehoods about the 2020 presidential contest and sowed distrust in American democracy. The only way to restore trust, these candidates say, is by electing them.”</font></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The reporters continue, “In Michigan, Pennsylvania and now Nevada, Republican voters have elevated candidates who owe their political rise to their amplification of doubts about Joseph R. Biden, Jr.’s victory, and who are now vying in elections for governor, secretary of state and attorney general — offices that will hold significant sway over the administration of the 2024 presidential election in critical swing states.”</font></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>In Pennsylvania, a key swing state that now-President Joe Biden won by only 2 percent in 2020, the Republican gubernatorial nominee is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/both-parties-worried-doug-mastriano/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Doug Mastriano</a></b>&nbsp;— a conspiracy theorist and Christian nationalist who is so extreme that he is even to the right of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. A</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">nd in Michigan, the far-right GOP nominee for secretary of state is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/04/23/1094474805/michigan-gop-karamo-secretary-of-state" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Kristina Karamo</a>. Mastriano and Karamo both falsely claim that Trump won their states in 2020 despite the fact that recounts confirmed Biden’s victory.</span></font></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The rise of election deniers is far from over,” Epstein and Corasaniti note. “Primary contests coming later this month in Colorado and in early August in Arizona and Wisconsin will provide more clarity on the depth of Republican voters’ desire to rally behind candidates devoted to the false idea that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald J. Trump.”</font></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The events that followed the 2020 presidential election were unprecedented in U.S. history. Never before in U.S. history had an incumbent president lost an election only to falsely claim that he didn’t, then do everything he could to get the election results overturned. Never before in U.S. history had the supporters of a defeated president violently attacked the U.S. Capitol Building in order to keep him in the White House and threatened to lynch the vice president for not going along with them.</font></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ben Berwick, counsel for the nonpartisan Protect Democracy, told the Times, “We are in a dangerous place at the moment. There is a substantial faction in this country that has come to the point where they have rejected the premise that when we have elections, the losers of the elections acknowledge the right of the winner to govern.”</font></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campaigning on the Big Lie isn’t necessarily a recipe for victory in a GOP primary. In Georgia’s 2022 gubernatorial primary, incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp — who acknowledges that Biden won his state fair and square in 2020 — defeated former Sen. David Perdue, a Trump-endorsed Big Lie promoter, by a brutal 52 percent. Perdue campaigned on the Big Lie, and he suffered a humiliating defeat.</font></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But other Big Lie promoters, including Marchant and Mastriano, have won primaries.</font></b></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The number of election deniers who have won Republican nominations is quickly rising in congressional and state legislative races across the country,” Epstein and Corasaniti observe. “At least 72 members of Congress who voted to overturn the 2020 election have advanced to the general election, according to a New York Times analysis. And in Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Texas — four competitive states that have already held primaries — 157 state legislators who took concrete steps to overturn or undermine the 2020 election will be on the ballot in November.”</font></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, a Democrat, is running for reelection and is up against&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/08/another-2020-election-denier-will-be-novembers-ballot/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Audrey Trujillo</a>, a MAGA Republican and Big Lie promoter. Trujillo won her party’s nomination on June 7.</font></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oliver told the Times, “We’re going to see at least one, if not more, election deniers rise to these offices in 2022. And I think we need to be scared and concerned about every single one of them.”</font></b></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8 22</font></p><p style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>America First Secretary of State Coalition</b>&nbsp;("<b>America First SOS Coalition"</b>) is an American&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conservative</a>&nbsp;coalition formed to support a slate of candidates in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_secretary_of_state_elections" title="2022 United States secretary of state elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2022 United States secretary of state elections</a>. The coalition's president is&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Marchant" title="Jim Marchant" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Marchant</a>, a Republican&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Nevada_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Nevada Secretary of State election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">candidate</a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_of_Nevada" title="Secretary of State of Nevada" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nevada Secretary of State</a>, and is headquartered in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas" title="Las Vegas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Las Vegas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidates supported by the coalition have advocated former&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">President Donald Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen</a>. The coalition has endorsed over a dozen candidates for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_state(U.S.state_government)" title="Secretary of state (U.S. state government)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">state secretary of state</a>, as well as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Pennsylvania_gubernatorial_election" title="2022 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pennsylvania gubernatorial</a>&nbsp;candidate&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Mastriano" title="Doug Mastriano" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Doug Mastriano</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-:1-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;The coalition is financially supported by the affiliated&nbsp;<b>Conservatives for Election Integrity PAC</b>&nbsp;(<b>CFEI PAC</b>).<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-:2-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="margin: 0px; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr;">
</div><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#History_and_foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">History and foundation</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#Conservatives_for_Election_Integrity_PAC(CFEI_PAC)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Conservatives for Election Integrity PAC (CFEI PAC)</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#Policy_goals_and_support" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Policy goals and support</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#Candidates" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Candidates</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="History_and_foundation">History and foundation</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The existence of the coalition was first disclosed by Marchant during a conversation on&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon" title="Steve Bannon" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Steve Bannon</a>'s podcast,&nbsp;<i style="">War Room</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;Marchant has been described as the leading organizer of the coalition.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The coalition reportedly formed following a meeting in May 2021 involving Marchant,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon" title="QAnon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">QAnon</a>&nbsp;conspiracy theorist Wayne Willott, and other conservative activists and fundraisers.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[9]</a></sup>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lindell" title="Mike Lindell" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Mike Lindell</a>, founder and CEO of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Pillow" title="My Pillow" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">My Pillow, Inc.</a>, is reportedly a backer of the coalition.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Initial candidates supported by the coalition include&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Finchem" title="Mark Finchem" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Mark Finchem</a>&nbsp;(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Arizona_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Arizona Secretary of State election" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Arizona</a>),&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Michigan_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Michigan Secretary of State election" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Kristina Karamo</a>&nbsp;(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Michigan_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Michigan Secretary of State election" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Michigan</a>), and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody_Hice" title="Jody Hice" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jody Hice</a>&nbsp;(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Georgia_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Georgia Secretary of State election" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Georgia</a>), each of whom have been endorsed by former President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[11]</a></sup>&nbsp;As of February 2022, Marchant is working to recruit candidates running for secretary of state in both&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Wisconsin_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Wisconsin Secretary of State election" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Wisconsin</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Minnesota_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Minnesota Secretary of State election" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Minnesota</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="Conservatives_for_Election_Integrity_PAC.28CFEI_PAC.29"><span class="mw-headline" id="Conservatives_for_Election_Integrity_PAC(CFEI_PAC)">Conservatives for Election Integrity PAC (CFEI PAC)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">An affiliated&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">political action committee</a>&nbsp;(PAC), the&nbsp;<b style="">Conservat­ives for Elec­tion Integ­rity PAC</b>&nbsp;(<b style="">CFEI PAC</b>), was founded by Marchant with the goal of fundraising for candidates for secretary of state. According to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brennan_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Brennan Center" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Brennan Center</a>, the PAC has raised $110,000 as of May 2022. The America Project, founded by former&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overstock.com" title="Overstock.com" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Overstock.com</a>&nbsp;CEO&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_M.Byrne" title="Patrick M. Byrne" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick M. Byrne</a>, is a prominent contributor to the PAC.</span><sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-:2-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Policy_goals_and_support">Policy goals and support</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a>, the coalition supports eliminating alleged&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_fraud_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Voter fraud in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">voter fraud</a>&nbsp;through "eliminating mail-in ballots, requiring single-day voting and committing to “aggressive voter roll cleanup,” measures that could suppress thousands of Democratic votes."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Candidates">Candidates</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The list of candidates are provided from the America First SOS website.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><table class="wikitable sortable jquery-tablesorter" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><thead><tr><th bgcolor="teal" class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" e440="e440" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></th><th bgcolor="teal" class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" e440="e440" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">State</font></th><th bgcolor="teal" class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" e440="e440" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Primary Date</font></th><th class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" e440="e440" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Primary Result</font></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Audrey Trujillo</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="flagicon"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="New Mexico" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_New_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_New_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_New_Mexico.svg/45px-Flag_of_New_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" /></a></span>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_New_Mexico_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 New Mexico Secretary of State election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Mexico</a></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span data-sort-value="000000002022-06-07-0000" style="white-space: nowrap;">June 7, 2022</span><b><sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-:1-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></b><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[a]</a></sup></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/16px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" title="Audited article of limited subject matter" width="16" height="16" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/24px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/32px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></b>&nbsp;<b>Nominated</b></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Mastriano" title="Doug Mastriano" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Doug Mastriano</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="flagicon"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="Pennsylvania" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Pennsylvania.svg/21px-Flag_of_Pennsylvania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Pennsylvania.svg/32px-Flag_of_Pennsylvania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Pennsylvania.svg/41px-Flag_of_Pennsylvania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="740" data-file-height="540" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" /></a></span>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Pennsylvania_gubernatorial_election" title="2022 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pennsylvania</a>&nbsp;(Governor)</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span data-sort-value="000000002022-05-17-0000" style="white-space: nowrap;">May 17, 2022</span><i><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></i></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/16px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" title="Audited article of limited subject matter" width="16" height="16" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/24px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/32px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" />&nbsp;<b>Nominated</b></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristina_Karamo" class="mw-redirect" title="Kristina Karamo" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kristina Karamo</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="flagicon"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="Michigan" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Flag_of_Michigan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Michigan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Flag_of_Michigan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Michigan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Flag_of_Michigan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Michigan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="685" data-file-height="457" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" /></a></span>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Michigan_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Michigan Secretary of State election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michigan</a></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span data-sort-value="000000002022-04-09-0000" style="white-space: nowrap;">April 9, 2022</span><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[b]</a></sup></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/16px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" title="Audited article of limited subject matter" width="16" height="16" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/24px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/32px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" />&nbsp;<b>Nominated</b></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Finchem" title="Mark Finchem" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Mark Finchem</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="flagicon"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="Arizona" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_Arizona.svg/23px-Flag_of_Arizona.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_Arizona.svg/35px-Flag_of_Arizona.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_Arizona.svg/45px-Flag_of_Arizona.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" /></a></span>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Arizona_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Arizona Secretary of State election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arizona</a></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span data-sort-value="000000002022-08-03-0000" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 3, 2022</span><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/16px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" title="Audited article of limited subject matter" width="16" height="16" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/24px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/32px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" />&nbsp;<b>Nominated</b></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Brown</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="flagicon"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="Kansas" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Kansas.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kansas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="thumbborder" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Kansas.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kansas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Kansas.svg/46px-Flag_of_Kansas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="300" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" /></a></span>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Kansas_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Kansas Secretary of State election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kansas</a></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span data-sort-value="000000002022-08-02-0000" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 2, 2022</span><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_button_cancel.svg" class="image" title="Unknown-Class article" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/16px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/24px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/32px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="32" data-file-height="32" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a>&nbsp;Lost primary</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tina_Peters(Colorado)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tina Peters (Colorado) (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Tina Peters</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="flagicon"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="Colorado" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Flag_of_Colorado.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colorado.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Flag_of_Colorado.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colorado.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Flag_of_Colorado.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colorado.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1200" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" /></a></span>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Colorado_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Colorado Secretary of State election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Colorado</a></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span data-sort-value="000000002022-06-28-0000" style="white-space: nowrap;">June 28, 2022</span><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_button_cancel.svg" class="image" title="Unknown-Class article" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/16px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/24px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/32px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="32" data-file-height="32" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a>&nbsp;Lost primary</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Zeigler" title="Jim Zeigler" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Jim Zeigler</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="flagicon"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="Alabama" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Alabama.svg/23px-Flag_of_Alabama.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Alabama.svg/35px-Flag_of_Alabama.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Alabama.svg/45px-Flag_of_Alabama.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" /></a></span>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Alabama_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Alabama Secretary of State election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alabama</a></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 21, 2022<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[c]</a></sup></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_button_cancel.svg" class="image" title="Unknown-Class article" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/16px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/24px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/32px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="32" data-file-height="32" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a>&nbsp;Lost runoff</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Diego Morales</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="flagicon"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="Indiana" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Flag_of_Indiana.svg/23px-Flag_of_Indiana.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Flag_of_Indiana.svg/35px-Flag_of_Indiana.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Flag_of_Indiana.svg/45px-Flag_of_Indiana.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" /></a></span>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Indiana_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Indiana Secretary of State election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indiana</a></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span data-sort-value="000000002022-06-18-0000" style="white-space: nowrap;">June 18, 2022</span><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[d]</a></sup></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/16px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" title="Audited article of limited subject matter" width="16" height="16" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/24px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/32px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" />&nbsp;<i><b>Nominated</b></i></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Marchant" title="Jim Marchant" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Jim Marchant</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="flagicon"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="Nevada" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Flag_of_Nevada.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nevada.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Flag_of_Nevada.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nevada.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Flag_of_Nevada.svg/45px-Flag_of_Nevada.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" /></a></span>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Nevada_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Nevada Secretary of State election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nevada</a></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 14, 2022<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/16px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" title="Audited article of limited subject matter" width="16" height="16" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/24px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/32px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" />&nbsp;<i><b>Nominated</b></i></font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keith Blanford</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="flagicon"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="South Carolina" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" /></a></span>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_South_Carolina_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 South Carolina Secretary of State election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">South Carolina</a></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span data-sort-value="000000002022-06-14-0000" style="white-space: nowrap;">June 14, 2022</span><i><sup id="cite_ref-:0_27-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-:0-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></i></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_button_cancel.svg" class="image" title="Unknown-Class article" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/16px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/24px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/32px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="32" data-file-height="32" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a>&nbsp;Lost primary</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rachel Hamm</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="flagicon"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="California" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/23px-Flag_of_California.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/35px-Flag_of_California.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/45px-Flag_of_California.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" /></a></span>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_California_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 California Secretary of State election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California</a></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span data-sort-value="000000002022-06-07-0000" style="white-space: nowrap;">June 7, 2022</span><i><sup id="cite_ref-CA2022_28-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-CA2022-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup></i></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_button_cancel.svg" class="image" title="Unknown-Class article" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/16px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/24px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/32px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="32" data-file-height="32" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a>&nbsp;Lost primary</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody_Hice" title="Jody Hice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Jody Hice</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="flagicon"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia(U.S.state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Secretary_of_State_Coalition#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup></font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_button_cancel.svg" class="image" title="Unknown-Class article" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/16px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/24px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Crystal_button_cancel.svg/32px-Crystal_button_cancel.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="32" data-file-height="32" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a>&nbsp;Lost primary</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Moon" title="Dorothy Moon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Dorothy Moon</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="flagicon"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho" title="Idaho" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="Idaho" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_Idaho.svg/19px-Flag_of_Idaho.svg.png" decoding="async" width="19" height="15" class="thumbborder" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_Idaho.svg/29px-Flag_of_Idaho.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_Idaho.svg/38px-Flag_of_Idaho.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="433" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); 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vertical-align: middle;" /></a>&nbsp;Lost primary</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Borer</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="flagicon"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska" title="Nebraska" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="Nebraska" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_of_Nebraska.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nebraska.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="thumbborder" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_of_Nebraska.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nebraska.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_of_Nebraska.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nebraska.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="360" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" /></a></span>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Nebraska_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2022 Nebraska Secretary of State election" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By David Gilbert</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>September 13, 2021,&nbsp;</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conspiracy theorist QAnon demonstrators protest child trafficking on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, August 22, 2020. (Photo by Kyle Grillot / AFP) (Photo by KYLE GRILLOT/AFP via&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CONSPIRACY THEORIST QANON DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST CHILD TRAFFICKING ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, AUGUST 22, 2020. ]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Nevada businessman who once cleared out his company’s warehouse to host a Trump rally in violation of state lockdown laws, has become the new host for the country’s biggest QAnon conference.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the end of August, the “For God & Country Patriot Double Down” was left without a home, when Caesars in Las Vegas pulled the plug. Just days later, the organizers posted a video of themselves celebrating securing a new venue, but decided not to reveal the name in a bid to stop the public and the media pressuring the hotel to cancel the event.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But now VICE News can reveal that the new venue is the Ahern Hotel and Convention Center, a premises close to the Las Vegas Strip owned by Don Ahern, a multi-millionaire businessman who is the finance chairman of the Nevada Republican Party and one of the biggest supporters of former President Donald Trump.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The event is a follow-up to the “For God & County Patriot Roundup” conference that took place in Dallas at the end of May, attracting hundreds of attendees and some of the biggest stars in the QAnon firmament.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Next month’s event is set to be even larger and is set to feature the father-and-son duo of Jim and Ron Watkins, who facilitated the rise of QAnon on their website 8kun (formerly known as 8chan). The event will also feature several elected GOP figures, including sitting Arizona state lawmakers Rep. Mark Finchem and Sen. Sonny Borrelli.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That a prominent Republican financier and supporter of Trump is now hosting the country’s largest QAnon event is just the latest example of how QAnon conspiracies have taken hold in mainstream GOP politics.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The official website for the event says the location will be “announced prior to [the] event,” but the organizers have revealed the name of the venue to those who purchased tickets.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the email about the venue, reviewed by VICE News, the organisers say they’ve booked all 203 rooms at the Ahern Hotel and secured a special rate of $149 for ticket holders.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The email also warns ticket holders that the hotel is only “semi-open” and that it might take some time for them to get through to reception.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The organizers, John Sabal (known online as “QAnon John”) and his partner Amy, also provide a brief biography of Ahern, calling him “an absolute patriot.” The email also describes Ahern as a “billionaire,” but that does not appear to be accurate.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Ahern came to national attention last year when he cleared out one of the huge warehouses used by his construction machinery rental company in Henderson, Nevada, to host an indoor Trump rally after the original venue canceled days before the rally, citing Nevada’s 50-person limit on indoor events.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ahern’s almost entirely maskless event, held in open defiance of state regulations, attracted over 5,500 people and earned him a $3,000 fin</span>e.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But this was nothing new to Ahern, who had previously hosted a Trump re-election campaign event at his hotel, featuring Trump’s personal pastor Paula White. That event also breached COVID-19 lockdown regulations and earned the businessman a $10,000 fine.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Ahern Hotel was previously called the Lucky Dragon, but that closed in 2018 just two years after it opened due to a lack of customers. Ahern purchased the hotel in 2019 at the knock-down price of $36 million and spent around $10 million on renovations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The renovations included removing the gaming floor and replacing it with more convention space.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Ahern Hotel did not immediately respond to VICE News’ questions about hosting the event.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Numerous Republican politicians have been listed as "special guests" at a QAnon convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, scheduled for this weekend.</div><div>
</div><div>State lawmakers and candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump are listed among QAnon influencers as attending the For God & Country: Patriot Double Down.</div><div>
</div><div>The event is organized by John Sabal, known by his Telegram moniker QAnon John, and will run from today to October 25.</div><div>
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</div><div>Among the Republican attendees are a host of speakers who are considered major influencers in the evolving QAnon online conspiracy movement.</div><div>
</div><div>One of them is Ron Watkins, accused of at one time being behind the 'Q' account that sparked the conspiracy movement—a claim he has denied.</div><div>
</div><div>Watkins has also announced he intends to run for office in Arizona and has set his eyes on a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Since it was announced, the controversial QAnon event has hit several snags. These include PayPal canceling the Patriot Voice's account, Caesars refusing to host the event and Michael Flynn pulling out from the convention.</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">But the event was saved after major Trump backer Don Ahern said he would host the convention at Sin City's Ahern Hotel.</b></div><div>
</div><div>The QAnon conspiracy theory claims former President Trump would somehow expose a global cabal of satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles who operate a massive child sex trafficking ring.</div><div>
</div><div>But, following the inauguration of President Joe Biden, QAnon followers have latched onto other unfounded conspiracies, including claims the 2020 Presidential Election was somehow riddled by widespread voter fraud.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Here is the list of Republicans who are attending the For God & Country Patriot Double Down.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Rep. Mark Finchem</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Arizona state Representative Finchem has long repeated the baseless claims that a nationwide conspiracy somehow stole the 2020 presidential election from Trump.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He was rewarded for his loyalty to the former president when Trump endorsed him for Arizona's Secretary of State, a position that would allow him to oversee elections in the state if elected.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rep. Finchem previously appeared on QAnon-supporter media in May when he was featured on the RedPill78 podcast hosted by Zak Paine.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a 2014 questionnaire that Finchem filled out for his candidacy for the Arizona House of Representatives, he said he was a member of The Oath Keepers, one of the largest anti-government extremist groups.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Sen. Sonny Borelli</div><div>
</div><div>The Republican Arizona state Senator has also repeated baseless claims that the 2020 Presidential Election was subject to widespread voter fraud.</div><div>
</div><div>Following the results of the Arizona audit, carried out by firm Cyber Ninjas on behalf of the GOP-controlled state senate, the confirmed President Joe Biden won, Sen. Borelli called for the election to be "nullified."</div><div>
</div><div>Despite the evidence, Borelli insisted the Maricopa County audit showed there was an Arizona election "cover-up" during an interview with former Trump senior adviser Steve Bannon on his War Room: Pandemic podcast.</div><div>
</div><div>Rep. Leo Biasiucci</div><div>
</div><div>Like other Republicans attending the QAnon convention, Arizona House of Representatives member Biasiucci has promoted baseless claims that Trump somehow won the 2020 Presidential election.</div><div>
</div><div><b>He sat alongside Sen. Borelli and Rep. Fincham at the Arizona election integrity hearing in November 2020.</b></div><div>
</div><div>In his speaker description on the Patriot Voice website, Rep. Biasiucci said he believed: "Trump won. Our elections are compromised and [Jeffrey] Epstein didn't kill himself."</div><div>
</div><div>Sen. Wendy Rogers</div><div>
</div><div>Sen. Rogers has frequently shared misinformation that Trump won the previous presidential election and also promoted election fraud claims in Arizona.</div><div>
</div><div>The Arizona state lawmaker has pushed the debunked great replacement theory and shared a Breitbart Twitter post about the border crisis, adding: "We are being replaced and invaded."</div><div>
</div><div>She has appeared on the anti-Semitic online website TruNews, which was permanently banned from YouTube in 2020 for hate speech.</div><div>
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</div><div>Kristina Karamo</div><div>
</div><div>Karamo has been a vocal Trump loyalist and earned his pick for Michigan Secretary of State after she promoted the claim of widespread voter fraud during the 2020 Presidential Election.</div><div>
</div><div>According to The Detroit News, Karamo traveled to Arizona in June to view the state's 2020 election audit.</div><div>
</div><div>She claimed to have seen "overwhelming evidence" of fraud and said it raised "reasonable concerns about the results in Michigan, a state Biden won back from Trump.</div><div>
</div><div>The Arizona audit would, ultimately, uphold President Biden's victory, deflating QAnon followers' hopes that it could set off a wave of similar election fraud investigations.</div><div>
</div><div>Rachel Hamm</div><div>
</div><div>Hamm continues GOP efforts to run for Secretary of State positions across the county in a bid to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election.</div><div>
</div><div>While she is unlikely to succeed in California, a Democrat stronghold for decades, she has continued to claim that Trump would have won the state had it not been for supposed widespread voter fraud.</div><div>
</div><div>She has since been endorsed by QAnon darling Flynn who was heard saying the conspiracy's slogan "where we go one we go all" in a July 4, 2020, tweet. Flynn has since claimed he actually said a family motto.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Jim Marchant</b></div><div>
</div><div>The Republican is set to run for the Secretary of State in Nevada in 2022 and has also pushed for election integrity.</div><div>
</div><div>On his campaign website, Marchant said his "number one priority will be to overhaul the fraudulent election system in Nevada."</div><div>
</div><div>In September, Marchant shared a Facebook post where he also called for a "full forensic audit" in Texas.</div><div>
</div><div>A spokesperson for the Arizona Democrat Party told Newsweek they believed Republicans in the state were "out of touch."</div><div>
</div><div>The spokesperson said: "Instead of working to help Arizonans recover from a global pandemic, Republicans like Wendy Rogers and her proud supporters like gubernatorial candidate Karrin Taylor Robson are leaving the state and their constituents behind to cater to an out of touch and fanatical base that has a stranglehold on the Republican Party."</div><div>
</div><div>Newsweek has contacted Rep. Finchem, Sen. Borelli. Rep. Leo Biasiucci, Sen. Rogers, Marchant, Hamm and Karamo for comment.</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Trump Is Pushing QAnon Candidates Into the GOP Mainstream</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump is backing a number of candidates who’ve openly pushed QAnon’s wildest theories. By endorsing them, he’s mainstreaming the extremist movement.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Cameron Joseph</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WASHINGTON, US</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>October 20, 2021,&nbsp;</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Arizona State Rep. Mark Finchem got a coveted spot warming up the crowd for former President Donald Trump at an Iowa rally last week. Days later he was in Virginia, speaking onstage ahead of top Trump ally Steve Bannon.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And Finchem’s next big speech will be at a major QAnon conference in Las Vegas this weekend called “For God & Country: Patriot Double Down” alongside a number of other GOP candidates and elected officials that Trump has helped make right-wing stars.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Finchem, who’s running to be Arizona’s secretary of state, isn’t even the only Trump-endorsed candidate who wants to run elections in a swing state who will address the conference. Kristina Karamo, who Trump has endorsed in her bid to be Michigan secretary of state, is also slated to speak, as are a handful of other GOP lawmakers Trump has praised in the past.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Come to the Patriot Double Down Where I will be speaking!!!” Karamo excitedly posted on her Facebook page.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump’s decision to endorse QAnon-affiliated candidates because they support his lies about the 2020 election has further mainstreamed the dangerous movement within the Republican Party.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“Trump is less concerned about whether these candidates support QAnon than he is about whether they support the Big Lie, and whether they will be in a position to help him if he decides to run again,</b>” said Amarnath Amarasingam, a QAnon and political extremism expert and professor at Queens University in Canada.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The liberal watchdog group Media Matters has identified 45 people already running for Congress who’ve promoted QAnon theories, as well as eight gubernatorial candidates and many more legislative candidates. Most are fringe candidates who won’t win their primaries, much less their elections. But the sheer number shows how deeply QAnon has sunk its teeth into the GOP.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“You’ve had an increase in QAnon-believing candidates out there coupled with Trump echoing and validating a lot of the sentiments,” Media Matters President Angelo Carusone told VICE News.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump’s embrace of Finchem, Karamo, and other fringe candidates elevates them within the conservative movement and gives them cachet, even as they bolster his lies that the election was stolen from him with state-specific falsehoods. They, in turn, lend the street cred they get from their Trump endorsement to QAnon, offering wink-and-nod support to the movement by adopting its in-jokes and terminology, speaking at QAnon-adjacent rallies like this weekend’s Vegas gathering, or even more explicitly embracing it like Finchem has done.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By centering the “Big Lie” that the election was stolen from him as his first and only concern, and by pushing candidates who have trumpeted those lies the loudest and most effectively without any concern for their even wilder beliefs, Trump is inviting the QAnon movement through the front door of the Republican Party.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Carusone argued that the spread of QAnon is troubling not just because of its poisonous lies and threats of violence but also because it helps mainstream the candidates who back Trump’s election lie</b>. Creating a new category of out-there candidates means the numerous Republicans who echo Trump’s lies are now simply seen as rank-and-file lawmakers, shifting the Overton Window of political discourse by normalizing them, and pushing fringe falsehoods into the GOP mainstream.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Now election deniers who don’t think that Democrats and the media are vampires therefore are the ‘reasonable people,’” Carusone said. "There’ll be a point in time… that some of the QAnon ideas now that were at the conventions we were seeing last summer become part and parcel and indistinguishable from republican orthodoxy. A lot of the ideas will become standard Republican fare.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That’s already happened. The concept of the “deep state” originated on QAnon message boards, was laundered through right-wing media and became a staple of Trump’s own speeches. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">And QAnon was the first to push the idea that the 2020 election would be stolen from Trump, months before the president himself began pushing that lie. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Now, polls show that roughly two-thirds of Republicans believe that the election was stolen from him, and a quarter of Republicans believe the QAnon falsehood that Trump will be reinstated as president by 2022. Trump is basing his endorsements and support on whether candidates support or oppose his lies about widespread election fraud.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Trump has repeatedly refused to reject QAnon. When NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie pressed him to reject the movement a few weeks before the 2020 election, he refused to do so. “I just don’t know about QAnon,” Trump said, before admitting he’s in on the joke: “They are very much against pedophilia, they fight it very hard.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And his son has been happy to cozy up to the movement even more explicitly.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“They should start reporting the number of kids that go missing every day the way they report COVID numbers,”<b> Donald Trump Jr</b>. posted to his 5.2 million Instagram followers on Sunday.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This wink-and-nod from the former president and his closest allies reassures Republicans with QAnon-tinged views that they’re safe to come out, normalizing their fringe views.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They’re now growing bolder, reassured that Trump and his broader movement have their backs. Trump endorsed a recent rally at the Michigan Capitol to protest the state’s election results. Michigan state Rep. Dair Rendon, one of the featured speakers, took the stage wearing an American flag pin with a gold Q emblazoned on it.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When asked why she wore the pin, Rendon said she did it partly because she knew there were plenty of like-minded people in the crowd.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“A lot of the people that are here today follow the same channels and they understand,” she told VICE News after laying out her pro-Q views.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Karamo, who also spoke at that rally, hasn’t publicly echoed QAnon’s core conspiracies. But she’s been happy to push other falsehoods. Karamo recently accused Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson of being “obsessed with corrupting our election process,” and falsely accused her and other Democratic election officials of intentionally rigging the 2020 election.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“These people were placed in those battleground states strategically to ensure that there was massive cheating and fraud in the election,” Karamo said on One America News Network last week.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But Finchem’s approach to QAnon is more like a bear-hug than a wink and a nod. He has posted QAnon content to his social media accounts on multiple occasions, and has explicitly endorsed the conspiracy theory’s foundational tenet: that a secret cabal of satan-worshipping Democrats, Hollywood elites, and members of a shadowy government “deep state” are running a child sex ring and are hell-bent on destroying Trump.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“They're finding so many kids. We’ve got a serious problem in this nation. And that's one of the things that disturbs me so much about our current congressional state of affairs. There's a lot of people involved in a pedophile network and the distribution of children, and that makes me absolutely sick,” he said during a March appearance on the religious conservative network Victory News. “And unfortunately, there's a whole lot of elected officials that are involved in that.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trump doesn’t seem too concerned about Finchem’s views, however. He’s just happy the Arizona lawmaker has gone all-in to bolster Trump’s election lies.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Mark Finchem is with us tonight, and what a job he’s done. Mark, great job, Mark. You’re going to win big, Mark. Because he’s tough. <b>They say</b> he’s controversial. It’s not controversial. He’s actually not controversial,” Trump said during his Iowa rally.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Finchem and Karamo will be with like-minded folks this weekend. The conference is being organized by John Sabal, known as “QAnon John,” who recently called for a “military mutiny” against President Joe Biden and has promoted openly antisemitic propaganda. Three other lawmakers who were involved in Arizona’s partisan and deeply flawed “audit” of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results are slated to attend: Arizona state Sens. Wendy Rogers and Sonny Borrelli, who Trump has praised in past statements, and state Rep. Leo Biasiucci.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They’ll rub elbows with a who’s who of QAnon influencers: Jim and Ron Watkins, who some experts believe is “Q” himself. The father and son have been instrumental in turning QAnon into a worldwide phenomenon on their message board 8kun (previously known as 8chan). It was here that the anonymous person or people behind QAnon posted exclusively for almost three years, during which time the movement went from a fringe conspiracy to a movement with tens of millions of adherents.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Ron Watkins launched a bid for Congress in Arizona last week, further weaving QAnon into the fabric of the GOP. Just days earlier he posted a picture with Kari Lake, Trump’s candidate for governor, on his hugely popular Telegram channel saying he had just dined with the former TV anchor. </b>Lake downplayed the meeting, telling VICE News she met Watkins at a meet-and-greet with dozens of other people—but didn’t respond when asked if she knew who Watkins was and his history in promoting and facilitating the QAnon conspiracy.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">QAnon’s followers have actively tried to make it harder to track their work. In recent months, many followers have tried to dump the QAnon branding, claiming it was simply a creation of the mainstream media. Instead they reference the same conspiracies in more oblique ways. But it’s not that subtle: The event’s logo features a queen of hearts and a seven—and in case the prominently featured Q isn’t enough, those two cards add up to 17 in blackjack (Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet, and the number has become symbolically important to the movement).&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The event’s promotional video, which heavily features Watkins (aka CodeMonkeyZ), also includes the QAnon slogans “Where we go one, we go all” and “The Great Awakening.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>It’s not just those speaking at the conference, either. Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who like Finchem was in the crowd during the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, has repeatedly used the hashtags #QAnon and #TheGreatAwakening on Twitter.&nbsp;</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mastriano was once a nobody in the Pennsylvania Legislature, but he has worked his way onto Trump’s radar and into his good graces by relentlessly pushing the lie that Pennsylvania’s elections had seen widespread fraud. With Trump’s help—and attacks from the president against other Republicans who weren’t keen on his plan—Mastriano has helped push the Pennsylvania GOP into a sham audit modeled after Arizona’s mess.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Sabal’s June QAnon event in Dallas drew Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert and Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller as well as then-Texas Republican Party Chairman Allen West,</b> who made the QAnon slogan “We are the storm” into the Texas Republican Party slogan during his tenure. West, who has insisted he’s “not into internet conspiracy theories ” and denied that it was borrowed from QAnon, is now running for Texas governor. General Michael Flynn, Trump’s onetime national security advisor and a major figure in the QAnon movement, endorsed West onstage—shortly after he seemed to endorse the idea of a coup against Joe Biden along the lines of the successful Burmese military coup against that country’s elected president.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All this increased acceptance of QAnon candidates is alarming extremism experts.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Having more and more candidates in high office who aren't concerned with facts, truth, science, or evidence—and who routinely erode social trust in modern institutions, except when it comes to getting people out to vote for them—is deeply harmful the long-term health of democracy,” said Amarasingam. “Many QAnon supporters have even gone a step further, calling for—and gleefully anticipating—an outright military coup or the assassination of political leaders. Adding more of this kind of discourse to the public sphere brings nothing good.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">David Gilbert contributed reporting to this story.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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