We asked all 143 Texas GOP congressional candidates about Biden's win. Only 13 call it legitimate.

[Nevilledog]

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Jasper Scherer
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New: Rejecting the 2020 election results has become a litmus test to measure GOP candidates' fealty to Trump. @BenjaminEW & I surveyed all 143 Republicans running for Congress in Texas; we confirmed 13 who say the results were legit.

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We asked all 143 Texas GOP congressional candidates about Biden's win. Only 13 call it legitimate.
In the state's reddest congressional districts, it is a rite of passage for Republican...
12:06 PM · Feb 16, 2022

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/election/2022/article/texas-gop-candidates-trump-biden-election-results-16923950.php

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The debate had been underway for less than 10 minutes before the top Republican candidates in a MAGA-friendly Houston congressional district reached a consensus: each believed the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.

“We’ve seen across the board, the Democrats have always cheated,” said Jonathan Hullihan, a former judge advocate general in the Navy and one of 11 Republicans running in the 8th Congressional District. “81 million votes for Joe Biden? I just don’t believe it.”

The two other candidates onstage — political operative Christian Collins and former Navy SEAL Morgan Luttrell — joined Hullihan in calling for a forensic audit of the election. Both have said they would have voted not to certify the 2020 results from Arizona and Pennsylvania, the two states targeted unsuccessfully by Republicans in Congress.

In Texas’ reddest congressional districts, it has become a rite of passage for Republican candidates to echo Trump’s baseless claims that Democrats rigged or stole the election for President Joe Biden. Even outside the conservative strongholds, GOP candidates across the state are calling for large-scale audits or otherwise casting doubt on the outcome of the election as they battle for votes.

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[Chainfire]

1. It doesn't mean that they actually believe it,

they just think that their stupid voters do.

[LoisB]

2. Fealty to a person who gives less than two shits about any of them.

nt