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applegrove

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Wed Oct 20, 2021, 04:03 PM Oct 2021

Arizona GOP Goes Full Fringe

Arizona GOP Goes Full Fringe

October 20, 2021 at 2:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 42 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/10/20/arizona-gop-goes-full-fringe/

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Politico: “As the party hardens around its fealty to former President Donald Trump, the GOP is filling up its midterm ballot with a roster of conspiracy theorists and extremists that could threaten the party’s prospects in a state that’s drifted leftward in recent elections.”

“The latest of those candidates is Ron Watkins, a celebrity in the QAnon conspiracy world suspected of being Q, who announced his plans to run for Congress last week.”

“It isn’t just that Watkins embraces the baseless claim that the November election was stolen. It’s that an entire ticket is running on that falsehood now.”

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Arizona GOP Goes Full Fringe (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2021 OP
Please, please, PLEASE let them "threaten the [Republican] party's prospects"! wackadoo wabbit Oct 2021 #1
+ million. Hortensis Oct 2021 #3
RUQ? czarjak Oct 2021 #2

wackadoo wabbit

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1. Please, please, PLEASE let them "threaten the [Republican] party's prospects"!
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 07:45 PM
Oct 2021

Just as long as these freaks don't win their general elections. There are many too many so-far-right-that-they-fell-off-the-edge Republicans in state offices here already.

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