Colorado county clerk who embraced vote-fraud conspiracy theories says she will run for state's top [View all]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/14/tina-peters-secretary-of-state-candidacy/

Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who has embraced the false claim that former president Donald Trump won the 2020 election, made the announcement during an appearance on former Trump White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon’s “War Room” podcast. Peters said she is running to “restore trust” and “put an end to government overreach in our election process.”

In the podcast interview Monday, Bannon called Peters “an American hero” and likened her to Trump. Peters cast herself as “the wall between your votes and nationalized elections.”

“They’re coming after me because I’m standing in their way,” she said.

According to the Denver Post, Peters has not yet filed paperwork for her secretary of state candidacy and had previously announced that she was running for reelection as Mesa County clerk and recorder.