More than 100 GOP primary winners back Trump's false fraud claims
Source: Washington Post
J.R. Majewski marched to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and tweeted a photo with the caption: Its going down on 1/6. Last month, he won the Republican nomination in an Ohio congressional district along Lake Erie.
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About a third of the way through the 2022 primaries, voters have nominated scores of Republican candidates for state and federal office who say the 2020 election was rigged, according to a new analysis by The Washington Post.
District by district, state by state, voters in places that cast ballots through the end of May have chosen at least 108 candidates for statewide office or Congress who have repeated Trumps lies. The number jumps to at least 149 winning candidates out of more than 170 races when it includes those who have campaigned on a platform of tightening voting rules or more stringently enforcing those already on the books, despite the lack of evidence of widespread fraud.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/14/more-than-100-gop-primary-winners-back-trumps-false-fraud-claims/
empedocles
(15,751 posts)lonely bird
(1,685 posts)Ohio looks stupid.
Lil Liberal Laura
(228 posts)There are 62 Republicans with traces of sanity.
myohmy2
(3,155 posts)...they realize they're playing with civil war...
...if they think Americans are going to allow them to destroy the Constitution, steal elections and gather power based upon lies and their fake version of reality, they're fooling themselves...
...patience with people who will say anything and do anything to create a path to power is wearing thin...
"...who say the 2020 election was rigged..."
...yet they offer no legal or legitimate proof that will hold up in court...
...this ongoing attempt to continue trump's coup is going to bring our country disastrous results...
...republicans...