Meet Richard Mack
Founder of Constitutional Sheriffs
and Peace Officers Association
Headline: New York Times, 7/25/2022
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, which was formally founded about a decade ago by Mr. Mack, is dedicated to the theory that sheriffs are beholden only to the Constitution and serve as the ultimate authority in a county — above local, state and federal officials and statutes. The group, whose leaders have promoted Christian ideology in government, has been active in supporting fights against gun control laws, immigration laws and federal land management.
Meet Christopher Schmaling
Racine County WI Sheriff
Headline: New York Times, 7/25/2022
The sheriff of Racine County in Wisconsin, the state’s fifth-most-populous county, is trying to charge state election officials with felonies for measures they took to facilitate safe voting in nursing homes during the pandemic.
Meet Mike Brown
Kansas GOP candidate for
secretary of state
Headline: Kansas City State, ((subscription required)
Excerpt from Kansas City State 7/24/2022 "Morning Rush" email news update:
His primary opponent, former Johnson County Commissioner Mike Brown, is provoking baseless suspicions about Kansas elections and attacking Schwab as soft on election security.
The hard-right Republicans Brown is most likely to attract may hold false or distorted views about election integrity. But they are also the kind of voters who tend to show up to vote in primary elections, their election-related misgivings notwithstanding.
Schwab is responding by delicately walking a tightrope as the primary approaches. He has stood by the security of Kansas elections, but is also trying to reach skeptical Republicans in a language they’ll understand.
Kool-Aid Drool?
Meet Janel Brandtjen
WI state Legislator
Headline: Wisconsin State Journal, 7/22/2022
Bernier said she wasn't surprised by Brandtjen's call for decertification. Brandtjen has previously called for a "full cyber-forensic audit" of the 2020 election and used her Assembly committee to provide a platform for several election deniers, including a man convicted of mail and bank fraud, to give a presentation featuring false and unprovable claims about the 2020 election.
Brandtjen has also clashed with Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, who has also made unfounded claims of widespread fraud but has insisted there is no way for the Legislature to decertify the 2020 election.
“Janel has been in this corner all along so it shouldn’t be a surprise," Bernier said, adding that she feels Brandtjen's chances of being the Assembly elections committee's chair next session is "pretty remote."
Meet Dan Cox
Maryland GOP candidate for Governor
Headline: Baltimore Sun, 7/20/2022
Maryland’s Republican Party just got turned on its head.
Del. Dan Cox, a far-right conservative endorsed by former President Donald Trump, had the victory of the night in Tuesday’s primary as he defeated GOP Gov. Larry Hogan’s hand-picked successor, former state Commerce Secretary Kelly Schulz.
After eight years of a moderate Republican governor — one who many Marylanders still give high marks — Cox represents a sharp turn for some conservatives in the state.
Meet Heidi Ganahl
Colorado GOP candidate for governor
Headline: Spectrum News, 7/18/2022
Colorado's Republican nominee for governor, Heidi Ganahl, on Monday selected as her running mate a Navy veteran who has claimed President Joe Biden was not legitimately elected president in 2020.
Danny Moore lost a previous position due to his stance on the presidential election. His fellow commissioners on the state's independent congressional redistricting commission voted him out of his chairmanship role last year after Facebook posts surfaced in which he claimed Biden was “elected by the Democrat steal.”
Meet William J. Olson
a lawyer you never want to hire
Headline: New York Times, 7/16/2022
“Our little band of lawyers is working on a memorandum that explains exactly what you can do,” Mr. Olson wrote in his memo, obtained by The New York Times, which he marked “privileged and confidential” and sent to the president. “The media will call this martial law,” he wrote, adding that “that is ‘fake news.’”
The document highlights the previously unreported role of Mr. Olson in advising Mr. Trump as the president was increasingly turning to extreme, far-right figures outside the White House to pursue options that many of his official advisers had told him were impossible or unlawful, in an effort to cling to power.
Meet Father Rick Heilman
Election Denier priest
Headline: Wisconsin State Journal, 7/17/2022
Father Richard “Rick” Heilman’s comments during a podcast and from the pulpit come as Congress’ Jan. 6 committee makes its case that former President Donald Trump was at the head of a conspiracy to halt the legal transfer of power to President Joe Biden and sparked the Jan. 6 attack.
Heilman in a July 8 sermon at his rural Cross Plains church, St. Mary of Pine Bluff, downplays the attack and contrasts it with how left-wing protesters “invaded” Wisconsin’s state Capitol in 2011 after the introduction of then-Gov. Scott Walker’s ultimately successful bill to restrict union power in the state.
Meet Tom Luna
Head of Idaho GOP
Headline: Washington Post, 7/14/2022
The Idaho resolution in the deeply conservative state that Donald Trump won with 64% of the vote in 2020 is nearly identical to the Texas resolution that was passed last month, stating: “We reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election; and we hold that acting president Joseph Robinette Biden was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States.”
Both the Idaho and Texas resolutions contend that secretaries of state circumvented their state legislatures, even though both states have Republican secretaries of state. [lunacy emphasized]
Jim Jones, a former chief justice of the Idaho Supreme Court as well as a former Republican state attorney general, called the resolution rejecting the 2020 presidential election results “asinine,” noting multiple courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, rejected attempts to overturn the election.
Meet Mike Lindell
Traveling Salesman for
Election Denial
The highest profile of the group that NPR tracked is MyPillow CEO Lindell, a prominent and longtime Trump supporter.
Lindell says he has spent millions of dollars on his crusade, which started almost as soon as ballots were cast on Nov. 3, 2020. Sometime around March of 2021, he brought Frank into the fold and Frank's popularity skyrocketed.
"I went from being completely mum to suddenly 10 million people knowing me in about a week," he told a group in Utah last July.
It's all about the visibility.
Meet Douglas Frank
Traveling Salesman for
Election Denial
In his former life, Frank was a high school math and science teacher in Ohio. He's moved now into touring the country spreading election fraud conspiracies full time.
He, and the other three men whose movements NPR documented, either did not respond to requests for comment or declined to comment for this story.
In the visit Koppes mentioned, on April 24, 2021, Frank held court in a DoubleTree hotel conference room near Denver. Dozens of people cheered as Frank pointed at graphs that he claimed showed how the 2020 election was marred by fraud (something that's been debunked many times by hand counts, audits and investigative reports across the country).
"Go knock on some doors!" Frank implored.
And many people in this Colorado community listened.
Meet David Clements
Traveling Salesman for
Election denial
Headline NPR, 6/30/2022
Clements, professorial in a tan blazer with a graying beard and unruly curly hair, begins his presentation with a prayer. Then he goes to the slideshow.
The audience, which appears to be all white and mostly middle-aged, occasionally gasps as he shows charts and graphs, which he claims contain evidence of widespread election fraud. [emphasis added]
Clements ends his talk with a request to the people in the audience: Go to the offices of your local officials.
"They respond to fear," he says. "You need to hold these institutions with the contempt they deserve."
Meet Donald Trump
Ready for his prison mug shot
Headline: Wisconsin State Journal, 7/10/2022
Former President Donald Trump is calling on Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to nullify ballots cast via absentee drop boxes, after the state Supreme Court decision Friday that rendered the drop boxes illegal. Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, after the ruling to call on Vos and Wisconsin Republicans to “do something, for once, about this atrocity” after referring to the use of ballot boxes during the 2020 election as a systematic violation of the law.
Meet Seth Keshel
Traveling Salesman for
Election denial
Headline NPR, 6/30/2022
On a quiet Tuesday night in Howard County, Md., dozens of people gather in a community center and listen to Seth Keshel's 10-point plan.
"Captain K," as he's known in election fraud circles, is a former U.S. Army intelligence officer, and he is walking through his go-to presentation: comparisons of vote totals from the past few election cycles, which he falsely claims prove President Biden's win in 2020 was illegitimate. His 10-point plan to "true election integrity" includes banning all early voting and requiring all American voters to re-register.
Meet 3/4s of WI GOP Guber Clown Show
Headline: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6/29/2022
Kleefisch, Nicholson and state Rep. Tim Ramthun largely agreed on the issues Giganti brought forward but a notable difference was in their answers to whether they believed the 2020 election was "stolen," referring to Trump's false argument that voter fraud led to his loss to President Joe Biden.
Ramthun was unequivocal and said yes. Kleefisch and Nicholson attempted to evade a yes or no answer with explanations but Giganti cut them off.
Meet Phil Lyman
Utah state legislator
Headline: Salt Lake Tribune, 6/7/2022
Just days after speaking at a Colorado event focusing on election fraud conspiracy theories, Rep. Phil Lyman, R-Blanding, claims he has heard “reports” of voting machines in Utah switching votes in the U.S. Senate race from incumbent Mike Lee to one of his challengers, Becky Edwards or Ally Isom. The truth is much tamer than hyperbolic claims of rigged election machines.
On Sunday, Lyman posted the claims of vote switching on social media. His post spread rapidly in several right-wing social media groups. Without evidence, Lyman also claimed that the voting machines’ software is “programmed with functionality” to switch votes after a ballot has been cast.
“We are finding evidence that the software absolutely has a back door,” Lyman wrote.
Meet Jon Rocha
GOP Michigan Candidate for State Rep
New York Times, 6/17/2022
Jon Rocha, a candidate for state representative in Michigan who has Mr. Trump’s backing, also cited the film and bragged that he had watched none of the hearings, “not even a 30-second clip.”
One reason the falsehoods have flourished is the failure of Republicans who do not believe them to push back. Before the Jan. 6 hearings began, Republican leaders promised a robust “rapid response” effort to counter the narratives that would emerge.
But there has been no such pushback from the Republican National Committee or any other organization to revelations that Mr. Trump continued to pressure Mr. Pence to overturn the election results, even after having been told doing so was illegal.
Meet Jarome Bell
GOP Virginia candidate for US House
New York Times, 6/17/2022
Jarome Bell, a leading candidate to challenge Representative Elaine Luria, Democrat of Virginia, has been traveling her Republican-leaning district showing voters a film by the right-wing provocateur Dinesh D’Souza that pushes the bogus fraud claims. The hearings, he said on Friday, have had “no impact on me. ‘2000 Mules’ has a bigger impact on what truly happened.” He added, “the 1/6 commission is the cover-up.”
Meet Tim Michels
Wisconsin GOP candidate for governor
Headline: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6/22/2022
Tim Michels, a wealthy construction executive endorsed by Trump, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the question is too hypothetical to answer at this point, adopting a similar position his Republican primary opponent Rebecca Kleefisch took when asked whether she would have certified the 2020 election.
Meet Steve Carra
Michigan State Representative
New York Times, 6/17/2022
“I have been fighting for safe, honest and transparent elections since before Jan. 6, and that fight continues,” said Michigan State Representative Steve Carra, whose re-election run has been blessed by Mr. Trump and who said Friday he has watched some but not much of the hearings. “Absentee ballots sent out unsolicited, signature verification relaxed, drop boxes all over the place, especially in Democratic area — it all deserves further scrutiny.”
Like mint in the garden, the seeds that the Trump team planted between Election Day 2020 and Jan. 6, 2021, are now growing out of control, aided by the former president’s allies.
Meet Steve Toth
Michigan State Representative
Headline: New York Times, 6/19/2022
State Representative Steve Toth, a Republican who represents part of Montgomery County, a Houston suburb, said he left the convention before voting on the resolutions, but he expressed support for them. He said he hoped the Biden resolution would “encourage Republicans and Democrats to come together and to call for a forensic audit” of the 2020 election.
Meet attendees at the
2022 Texas GOP Convention
Headline: New York Times, 6/19/2022
The resolutions adopting the false claims that former President Donald J. Trump was the victim of a stolen election in 2020 as well as the other declarations were the latest examples of Texas Republicans moving further to the right in recent months. Republicans control both chambers of the legislature, the governor’s mansion and every statewide office, and have used their dominance to push tough anti-abortion legislation, create supply-chain problems by temporarily adding additional state inspections at the border and renominate the Trump-backed state attorney general over a member of the Bush family in a primary runoff in May.
Meet Couy Griffin
Otero County NM Commissioner
Headline: Alamogordo Daily News, 6/17/2022
And despite all that pressure, District 2 Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin remained defiant with the sole no vote at Friday’s meeting.
That came just hours after Griffin was sentenced in federal court to 14 days in jail, time served, and a fine of $3,000 for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
That incident saw Republicans and supporters of former-President Donald Trump storm the halls of Congress and call to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential Election, where Trump lost the presidency to President Joe Biden.
Griffin called into the meeting from Washington, D.C. where his sentencing took place, speaking before the vote to share his frustrations with the Secretary of State, Attorney General’s Office and Democrat-led New Mexico government.
Meet Vickie Marquardt
Otero County NM Commissioner
Headline: Alamogordo Daily News, 6/13/2022
The decision came after discussions at this and other Otero County Commission meetings where it was established that the Commission does not trust the accuracy of the Dominion Voting Machines.
"I do not trust these machines and I want Otero County to have a fair election for everybody," Otero County Commission Chairwoman Vickie Marquardt said.
New Mexico Secretary of State spokesman Alex Curtas said that the Otero County Commission did not follow any current legal protocols.
Meet Ron Hanks
Colorado GOP candidate
for US Senate
Pearl clutching headline from the Washington Post, 6/13/2022
That's the whole point of the exercise, Annie, to elevate the least electable candidate in the general election.
Hanks’s initial TV ad shows him firing a high-powered long gun at a voting machine. Aides to Bennet’s Senate office and his campaign declined to comment for this story.
During a virtual campaign event Thursday night, as the first public hearing of the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack convened in Washington, Hanks offered his own false and distorted version of the event, calling it “a million peaceful, concerned Americans, patriotic Americans concerned about their country.” Hanks added: “The mainstream media’s effort to label this as, you know, a massive insurrection is fundamentally untrue.”
Meet Ryan Kelley
Jan 6th insurrectionist
and MI GOP candidate for Gov
Headline: NPR, 6/9/2022
Kelley was arrested by the FBI Thursday at his home in Allendale in western Michigan and was released after his arraignment without having to post bond.
He answered "understood" to most of the judge's questions regarding his rights and responsibilities. The initial proceeding took place in a Grand Rapids federal courtroom, although the charges were filed in Washington D.C.
Documents say that Kelley was part of a crowd that tried to disrupt the certification of President Biden as the winner of the November 2020 election. The evidence includes photos and videos of the insurrection that were posted online.
Kelley is a Republican candidate for governor who will appear on the August statewide primary ballot. That's not the case for numerous other Republicans who were accused of submitting fraudulent signatures and were dropped from the ballot.
Meet Audrey Trujillo
GOP candidate for New Mexico
Secretary of State
Headline: Washington Post, 6/8/2022
Trujillo has been outspoken in her baseless criticism of the 2020 contest. She has called Biden’s 2020 election victory a “coup” and compared U.S. voting systems to “any other communist country like Venezuela or any of these other states where our elections are being manipulated,” per the New York Times.
In fact, federal and state election officials declared the 2020 election the most secure in U.S. history — largely because of enhanced cybersecurity protections and a shift to paper ballots that can’t be altered by hackers.
Trujillo’s Twitter account also posted tweets mocking Mexicans and suggesting Jews played a nefarious role in developing coronavirus vaccines, per the Albuquerque Journal.
Trujillo, who was unopposed for the nomination, is essentially the second election denier to win her party’s nomination as secretary of state.
Meet Jay Stone
WI state Senate candidate
Headline: Racine Eye, 6/7/2022
Stone (https://stoneforstatesenator.com/) is a retired hypnotherapist and an early critic of the 2020 election handling in Wisconsin. He filed 603 signatures on his nomination petition. State law requires Senate candidates to have not less than 400 nor more than 800 signatures of people who live in the candidate’s district.
According to a lengthy story published by ProPublica, Stone filed a complaint in the summer of 2020 with the WEC against grant money from the national nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) that went to the state’s five largest cities: Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Racine and Kenosha.
The funds were earmarked for COVID-19 pandemic safety supplies, poll worker recruitment and training, drop boxes and voter education about absentee voting.
Meet Tim Michels
WI GOP Gov Candidate
Wisconsin Public Radio, 6/3/2022
But in a brief interview Friday, Michels echoed some of Trump's criticisms of the 2020 election, declining to say whether he thought President Joe Biden won Wisconsin and taking a wait-and-see approach on whether as governor he'd certify the 2024 presidential election.
Michels, who entered the race for governor in late April, received Trump's official endorsement Thursday over fellow Republicans Rebecca Kleefisch, Kevin Nicholson and Tim Ramthun. While Trump's record in GOP primaries has been mixed, his endorsement has been a game-changer in some states.
meet Kelli Ward
Head of Arizona GOP
A lawyer for the Arizona Republican Party and its firebrand leader, Kelli Ward, urged a judge Friday to invalidate Arizona’s overwhelmingly popular system of mail-in voting, a process used by about 90% of voters.
Voting by mail is inconsistent with the Arizona Constitution’s requirement for a secret ballot, attorney Alex Kolodin argued. He urged a Mohave County judge to ban the practice for nearly all voters in the 2022 general election in November, but not for the primary in August, for which ballots are scheduled to be mailed next month.
The case is the latest in a multi-pronged effort by Ward and the Arizona Republican Party to roll back a system of no-excuse absentee voting that the GOP-controlled Legislature has adopted since 1991. They’ve pushed to require most people to cast a ballot in person on Election Day as former President Donald Trump repeats the lie that he lost the 2020 election because of fraud in Arizona and other battleground states. [emphasis added]
Meet Blake Masters
AZ GOP candidate for US Senate
Headline: Los Angeles Times, 6/3/2022
Masters, 35, has been a fierce critic of the technology industry in which he built his career and has given voice to the cultural grievances that animate GOP base voters. He has called for reducing legal immigration and espoused the baseless “great replacement” conspiracy theory, claiming Democrats are trying to “replace Americans who were born here.”
He has said “I think Trump won in 2020,” and has claimed that election officials, the media and big tech companies “conspired to manipulate the 2020 election.”
Meet Toni Shuppe,
Audit the Vote PA
Headline: New York Times, 5/30/2022
Ms. Shuppe’s group, Audit the Vote PA, has become a leading peddler of misleading data about the election in Pennsylvania. Last year, the group set out to find evidence of fraud by canvassing neighborhoods in search of discrepancies between election results and information collected from residents, a method that election experts dismiss as invalid.
Ms. Shuppe has admitted to flaws in her data but stands by the conclusions of her analysis. Earlier this year, she circulated a petition that declared citizens’ right “to throw off such government that intends to keep the truth behind the 2020 election hidden.”
Now, Ms. Shuppe is recruiting election activists, using what she learned at Ms. Mitchell’s and other training sessions, she said in an interview. So far, around 200 people have signed up, she said.
Meet Catherine Engelbrecht
head of True the vote clown show
New York Times, 5/29/2022
Ms. Engelbrecht, the founder of True the Vote, a group that has spent years warning of the dangers of voter fraud, has criticized the earlier narratives of the 2020 election as unhelpful. “What they were putting out there was a lot of misinformation that just wasn’t true,” she said in a recent interview. “People want to believe the conspiracies in some ways.” Their film, she maintains, offers a more-serious theory. Image Catherine Engelbrecht, center, founder and president of True the Vote.
Yet a close look at the documentary shows that it, too, is based on arguments that fall apart under scrutiny.
The film, directed by the conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, is based in part on an erroneous premise: that getting paid to deliver other people’s ballots is illegal not just in states like Pennsylvania and Georgia where True the Vote centered its research and where third-party delivery of ballots is not allowed in most cases, but in every state.
Meet Cleta Mitchell
Hysterical GOP 2020 election denier
Headline: New York Times, 5/30/2022
In the days after the 2020 election, Ms. Mitchell was among a cadre of Republican lawyers who frantically compiled unsubstantiated accusations, debunked claims and an array of confusing and inconclusive eyewitness reports to build the case that the election was marred by fraud. Courts rejected the cases and election officials were unconvinced, thwarting a stunning assault on the transfer of power.
Now Ms. Mitchell is prepping for the next election. Working with a well-funded network of organizations on the right, including the Republican National Committee, she is recruiting election conspiracists into an organized cavalry of activists monitoring elections.
Meet Karen Mueller
GOP crackpot candidate for WI AG
Headline: NBC News, 5/22/2022
Karen Mueller, one of the three Republicans running for the chance to go up against the incumbent attorney general, Josh Kaul, a Democrat, claims Joe Biden didn’t win the state in 2020. The other two attended a rally where a prominent right-wing militia that sought to overturn the election was present.
Mueller, an attorney who has vowed to investigate doctors who won’t prescribe the animal-deworming medication ivermectin to treat Covid-19 patients, was part of an unsuccessful lawsuit to overturn the 2020 presidential results in Wisconsin.
Meet John Gordon
GOP crackpot candidate for GA AG
Headline: NBC News, 5/22/2022
Conservative attorney John Gordon is challenging the incumbent attorney general, Chris Carr, in the GOP primary.
The election — along with closely watched primary contests for governor and secretary of state in the state — is on Tuesday.
Gordon, who Trump has endorsed, has built his long-shot campaign around false claims that Trump won the state in 2020. (Biden won Georgia by about 11,800 votes. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the state).
Gordon, nevertheless, has vowed, if elected, to open a new investigation into election fraud in 2020 and has said he will “expose the fraud” and “will prosecute the people that are responsible for this.”
Gordon didn’t respond to questions from NBC News.
reconnect with doug mastrian0
GOP candidate for PA Gov
Headline: New York Times, 5/18/2022
But no Republican nominee for a major swing-state office has done more to amplify bogus election claims than Mr. Mastriano in Pennsylvania.
A state senator and retired Army colonel, he spent $3,354 in campaign funds to charter buses to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. A Senate Judiciary Committee report said that video footage had confirmed that Mr. Mastriano had “passed through breached barricades and police lines” near the Capitol, though he has denied that he breached the lines and there is no evidence that he entered the Capitol itself.
This March, Mr. Mastriano held a campaign event in Gettysburg at which attendees signed a petition calling on Pennsylvania to decertify the state’s 2020 results, according to The York Daily Record.
Meet Herschel Walker
Georgia GOP US Senate candidate
Headline: New York Times, 5/18/2022
In the state’s Senate race, the leading Republican candidate, the Trump-backed former football star Herschel Walker, said on Wednesday that he wasn’t sure if Mr. Biden had been lawfully elected in 2020.
“I don’t know,” Mr. Walker told a New York Times reporter after a speech in Macon, Ga. “I do think there was problems. And I think everybody else thinks there was problems, and that’s the reason right now everybody’s so upset.”
Meet David perdue and Jody Hice
Mr. Perdue and Representative Jody Hice, who is challenging Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state, have each falsely argued that rampant voter fraud marred the 2020 Georgia contests. Mr. Perdue began a debate with Mr. Kemp by declaring: “The election in 2020 was rigged and stolen.” Mr. Hice said he would not have certified Mr. Biden’s victory.
Meet Ted Budd
North Carolina GOP Candidate
for U.S. Senate
Headline: New York Times, 5/18/2022
In North Carolina, voters chose a G.O.P. Senate nominee, Representative Ted Budd, who voted in Congress against certifying the 2020 results and who continues to refuse to say that Mr. Biden was legitimately elected.
Meet doug rogalla
Chair of Monroe Count WI GOP
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/17/2022
"There there are a number of Republican Party leaders, to include people like Rep. Tim Ramthun, that's their number one and only priority," Doug Rogalla, chairman of the Monroe County Republican Party, said in an interview, referring to GOP candidate for governor Ramthun and his focus on the impossible effort to decertify the 2020 election.
"I mean, I sure share many of those concerns but I think what's most important is winning this election in November."
At the same time, Rogalla said he plans to show "2,000 Mules," a film that uses faulty cell phone data analysis to allege that hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots were cast in five battleground states in the 2020 election, including Wisconsin.
Meet dinesh D'souza
right-wing crackpot
Politico, 5/15/2022
Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative provocateur, was releasing his documentary, “2000 Mules,” the most recent addition to the cannon of right wing conspiracy flicks questioning the well-established outcome of the 2020 election. And for the first formal viewing, he had chosen the site dubbed by the 45th president as the “Winter White House.” In doing so, D’Souza joined a growing list of those dabbling in MAGA film noir to turn to Mar-a-Lago for their coming out party.
Meet Mary Souza
candidate for idaho secretary of state
Headline: Idaho Statesman, 5/14/2022
The other candidate for secretary of state in the Republican primary is hardly an improvement on Moon. State Sen. Mary Souza sees a villain lurking behind every ballot box, warning Idahoans that “we have to have our eyes wide open in Idaho and we have to secure our system even if we don’t have fraud right now, it is coming and it is all around us and we need to make sure we have a safe system.” Souza makes you want to take a shower to wash away those election cooties.
Meet dorothy moon
candidate for idaho secretary of state
Headline: Idaho Statesman, 5/14/2022
State Rep. Dorothy Moon has gone so far off the deep end that she falsely claimed voters from Canada were crossing the border into Idaho and voting in our elections, which was refuted by Idaho’s deputy secretary of state. Moon denies Trump lost the 2020 election and joined 186 state legislators nationwide calling for “forensic audits” of the election results in all 50 states and the possible decertification of certain electors — something experts say is legally and constitutionally impossible.
Meet doug mastriano
GOP candidate for PA Gov
Headline: Brennan Center for Justice (5/13/2022)
Mastriano held an event in late March with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell — a purveyor of various false pro-Trump claims about election fraud — where attendees were asked to sign a petition to decertify the result of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania. The candidate has falsely claimed that there were more votes counted in the election than there are registered voters in the state and called for an audit.
At the same time, Mastriano has also been attacked with election denial rhetoric. A group called Pennsylvania Patriots for Election Integrity is running TV ads saying Mastriano voted to make voting “less secure” and “failed to audit the 2020 election.” The group has not yet filed reports that would reveal its donors or leadership.
Meet Kraken Cracker
Misty hampton
Headline: Washington Post, 5/13/2022
Trump had carried the conservative county by 40 points, but elections supervisor Misty Hampton said she remained suspicious of Joe Biden’s win in Georgia. Hampton made a video that went viral soon after the election, claiming to show that Dominion Voting System machines, the ones used in her county, could be manipulated. She said in interviews that she hoped the Georgia businessman who visited later, Scott Hall, and others who accompanied him could help identify vulnerabilities and prove “that this election was not done true and correct.”
Hampton said she could not remember when the visit occurred or what Hall and the others did when they were there. She said they did not enter a room that housed the county’s touch-screen voting machines, but she said she did not know whether they entered the room housing the election management system server, the central computer used to tally election results.
Don't you think that election clerks should possess at least one ounce of intelligence?
Source: Wikipedia
Meet tim ramthun
Headline: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/10/2022
Grievances over the outcome of the 2020 election continue to dominate the Republican primary race for governor just months from the midterms, with one candidate reviving his push to void the state's 10 electoral votes cast for President Joe Biden and calling for a Republican legislative leader to be prosecuted over his response to the election.
State Rep. Tim Ramthun, a Republican from Campbellsport, is drafting a new resolution to bring to his Assembly colleagues that aims to decertify the 2020 election result, which has been deemed to be a fantasy by legal experts and constitutional scholars, including an attorney who once represented former President Donald Trump.
Meet Tim Michels
Headline: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/9/2022
In an interview on WTAQ-AM, Michels said he wanted to see if he could make changes to the Wisconsin Elections Commission before deciding whether to dissolve it and criticized Assembly Speaker Robin Vos by saying he hoped the Rochester Republican could eventually achieve a passing grade.
Asked by conservative host Joe Giganti if he believed the election was stolen, Michels said, "Maybe."
"Certainly, there was a lot of bad stuff that happened," he said. "There was certainly illegal ballots. How many? I don't know if Justice Gableman knows. I don't know if anybody knows."
Meet mark finchem and shawnna bolick
Candidates for AZ Secretary of State
Headline: Washington Post, 5/5/2022
Arizona: The leading candidate may be state Rep. Mark Finchem, a QAnon conspiracy theorist who wants to “decertify and set aside” Arizona’s 2020 electors. Another candidate, state Rep. Shawnna Bolick, authored a bill to allow the legislature to overrule the voters and declare whoever they wanted the winner of the state’s presidential electors.
Headline: Insider NJ, 5/5/2022:
Many Americans believe that the Donald Trump really won the 2020 US Presidential election, and those same people are much more likely than other Americans to endorse other unsubstantiated beliefs, even ones as wild as the existence of Bigfoot, or that the Earth is flat. According to the latest Fairleigh Dickinson University Poll, 22 percent of Americans say that Bigfoot is at least somewhat likely to be real, and 11 percent say that the Earth might be flat, but those figures are higher among those Americans who believe that the 2020 election was stolen. Perhaps more importantly, this isn’t just about some people being credulous: asking about the discredited belief that the 2020 election was stolen makes Republicans more likely to think that such wild ideas are actually true.
Headline: New York Times, 5/2/2022
But winning the crowded Republican primary is far from certain. Ms. Lake faces especially fierce opposition from Karrin Taylor Robson, a Phoenix-based business owner who has contributed millions to her own campaign. Already, the race to replace Mr. Ducey, who cannot run again because of term limits, has become among the most expensive governor’s races in state history, with $13.6 million in spending so far.
Ms. Taylor Robson has not made the 2020 election the major focus of her campaign, but when asked whether she considered Mr. Biden the fairly elected president, she responded in a statement, “Joe Biden may be the president, but the election definitely wasn’t fair.”
Headline: New York Times, 5/2/2022
“Anybody who is still re-litigating 2020 will lose the general election,” said Kathy Petsas, a Republican who has served as a precinct captain and collected signatures for several candidates this year. “I think people at home have caught on, and I don’t think a lot of our candidates have caught on.”
Meet Jody Hice
Freedom Caucus Crazy
& GA secretary of state candidate
Headline: Washington Post, 5/3/2022
It’s also prompted widespread fear that, if elected, those candidates could undermine election integrity — either through misguided decisions about election equipment and audits or by refusing to certify elections based on unverified claims of fraud.
A case in point: Hice said he would not have certified the state’s 2020 election results — something the secretary of state is required to do under state law. [emphasis added}
Meet John Adams
Ohio candidate for Secretary of State
That includes John Adams, a former state lawmaker challenging Ohio’s incumbent secretary of state, Frank LaRose, in Tuesday’s GOP primary. Adams has said “there’s no way that Trump lost” and said LaRose wasn’t any different than Stacey Abrams, a Democrat and national voting rights advocate who is running for governor in Georgia.
Meet Pillow Man Mike Lindell
Headline: The Jerusalem Post, 4/29/2022
Some of the people and groups involved in the vigilante election-investigator movement are drawing financial support from Lindell, the My Pillow Inc chief executive and one of the most visible backers of Trump’s false fraud claims. Lindell said he hired four top members of one group, the US Election Integrity Plan, or USEIP. The group got Lindell’s backing about three months after its co-founder advised Elbert County Clerk Schroeder in his effort to copy and leak voting data. In all, Lindell told Reuters he has spent about $30 million and hired up to 70 people, including lawyers and “cyber people,” partly in support of Cause of America, a right-wing network of election activists. [emphasis added]
Meet Frank LaRose
Ohio Secretary of State
Headline: Washington Post, 4/29/2022
LaRose hasn’t talked much about the 2020 election on the campaign trail, other than to say it was secure in Ohio and to tout his office’s pursuit of voter fraud cases. This marked a departure following the 2020 vote in which he praised the work of bipartisan election officials in running a smooth election, promoted voter access and presented statistics showing how rare voter fraud is.
Earlier this year, LaRose brushed aside questions about whether his rhetoric had shifted.
“Unfortunately, some people want to make a political issue out of this,” he said. “Of course, it’s right to be concerned about election integrity.”
The pivot was enough to earn him an endorsement from Trump, who is considering another run for president in 2024 and said LaRose was “dedicated to Secure Elections.” LaRose has been touting the endorsement. [emphasis added]
Meet Garrett Graupner
Pastor at F.E.C. United Church
Headline: New York Times, 4/24/2022
Other pastors have continued to associate with F.E.C. United. The week after its event at The Rock, the group held a meeting at Fervent Church in Colorado Springs. The event was emceed by the church’s pastor, Garrett Graupner.
Mr. Graupner also serves as F.E.C. United’s chaplain, a role he describes as simply ministering to the group’s members. “I’m the spiritual care guy,” he said. “If you asked me to be the chaplain of The New York Times, I’d say yes.”
Mr. Graupner has been an outspoken opponent of Covid restrictions throughout the pandemic, and he said his issues of greatest concern were not necessarily the election but rather abortion, gender identity and teaching about systemic racism in schools. “C.R.T.” — critical race theory — “is a hill for me to die on,” he said.
Nevertheless, he said, “I have seen some evidence to believe that the elections were tampered with at some point.”
“I could send you tons of material,” he said.
In other words, he checks off all of the nutburger boxes.
Meet Rebecca Kleefisch
Trump sycophant, Scott Walker acolyte
GOP candidate for WI governor
Headline: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4/27/2022
The characterization comes as a fourth candidate enters the Republican primary with the ability to pour millions into his campaign and a backstory that could appeal to the head of the party, former President Donald Trump.
Seventeen months after the 2020 election, grievances over its outcome loom over Wisconsin's 2022 races as Trump continues to pressure Republicans to keep alive his false claims of widespread fraud to build momentum for his expected 2024 campaign for president.
Meet preacher Greg Locke
Global Vision Bible Church (Mt. Juliet TN)
Headline: New York Times, 4/24/2022
Greg Locke, a preacher who leads the Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, Tenn., spoke alongside Alex Jones of Infowars at a “Rally for Revival” demonstration in Washington the night before the Jan. 6 attack. Mr. Locke offered a prayer for the Proud Boys, the violent far-right group, and for Enrique Tarrio, the organization’s leader who has since been indicted on charges of conspiracy for his role in the Capitol insurrection.
Mr. Locke — whose congregation is relatively small, but who claims a social media audience in the millions — is one of more than a dozen pastors who have appeared onstage at the ReAwaken America Tour: a traveling roadshow that has featured far-right Republican politicians, anti-vaccine activists, election conspiracists and Trumpworld personalities, including Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a central figure in the effort to overturn the election in late 2020.
Meet Mark Cowart, Senior Pastor
Church of All Nations, Colorado Springs
Headline: New York Times, 4/24/2022
For these church leaders, Mr. Trump’s narrative of the 2020 election has become a prominent strain in an apocalyptic vision of the left running amok.
“What’s going on in our country right now with this recent election and the fraudulent nature of that?” Mr. Cowart, who did not respond to multiple requests for comment, asked in a sermon last year. “What is going on?”
Meet William J. Federer
Headline: New York Times, 4/24/2022
Then Mr. Cowart turned the pulpit over to a guest speaker, William J. Federer.
An evangelical commentator and one-time Republican congressional candidate, Mr. Federer led the congregation through an hourlong PowerPoint presentation based on his 2020 book, “Socialism — The Real History from Plato to the Present: How the Deep State Capitalizes on Crises to Consolidate Control.” Many congregants scribbled in the notebooks they had brought from home.
Meet Kristi Burton Brown
Chair of Colorado GOP
Headline: The Colorado Sun, 4/24/2022
The chair of the state Republican party, Kristi Burton Brown — who was identified in court testimony as one-time leader of a group seeking to prove election conspiracy — has said she wants to move on from claims of 2020 election fraud. However, she has taken little to no action to hold Peters or Hanks accountable for their roles in promoting violence and dangerous election conspiracies.
Instead, Burton Brown actually invited Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona to be the keynote speaker for the statewide GOP’s biggest annual fundraiser on April 8th. Biggs is a national voice on election conspiracies and promoted the bogus ‘forensic audit’ of Arizona’s 2020 elections.
Meet Matt DePerno
Headline: New York Times, 4/16/2022
Both candidates have been vocal supporters of Mr. Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election. Mr. DePerno was one of the lawyers involved in Republican challenges in Antrim County, Mich., where a quickly corrected human error on election night spawned a barrage of conspiracy theories.
Meet Meshawn Maddock,
co-chair of Michigan GOP
Headline: New York Times, 4/16/2022
The root of the rupture in Michigan can, in part, be traced to endorsements made by Meshawn Maddock, a co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party and a Trump confidante. The Republican Party leadership has traditionally stayed out of statewide races, especially before the state convention. But Ms. Maddock endorsed Ms. Karamo and Mr. DePerno.
Meet Trump-endorsed Kristine Karamo
Headline: New York Times, 4/16/2022
Ms. Karamo belongs to a slate of “America First” secretary of state candidates running across the country and campaigning, in part, on distorted views of the 2020 election.
Meet Mark Forton
Headline: New York Times, 4/16/2022
In a room packed with about 500 people, Mark Forton, the county party chairman and a fierce ally of former President Donald J. Trump, began railing against the establishment Republicans in the audience. A plan was afoot to oust him and his executive team, he said.
“They’re going to make an overthrow of the party, and you have a right to know what this county party has done in the last three years,” he said as his supporters booed and hollered and opponents pelted him with objections. Republicans in suits and cardigans on one side of the room shouted at die-hard Trump supporters in MAGA hats and Trump gear on the other.
The night ended as Mr. Forton had predicted, with a 158-123 vote that removed him and his leadership team from their posts.
Meet John Cardiff Gerhardt
Headline: Nevada Current, 4/13/2022
John Cardiff Gerhardt, who in 2020 ran for Nevada Assembly as an independent in a heavily Democratic district, has openly embraced QAnon conspiracy theories and suggested that a “cabal” is attempting to control the state government. He has also said he doesn’t believe the pandemic is real.
No fundraising data is available for Gerhardt.
Meet Socorro Keenan
Headline: Nevada Current, 4/13/2022
Socorro Keenan, identified as a retired talent agent, told Veterans in Politics last November that Cegavske did not follow through with her “judiciary” duties in 2020. Keenan also told a Logandale crowd last month that she seeks to make the Nevada standard: “1 ID, 1 vote, 1 ballot; no need for machines.”
Keenan, who filed her first quarter 2022 contributions and expense report Tuesday, has raised only $400 in contributions.
Meet Gerard Ramalho
Headline: Nevada Current, 4/13/2022
Gerard Ramalho, a longtime news anchor forced into retirement after he was laid off by News 3, launched his campaign for secretary of state by criticizing the media, advocating for voter-identification laws and against “ballot harvesting” — the loaded Republican phrase referring to having somebody else deliver your ballot to a mailbox or polling place. When asked directly in an interview on his former television station who won the 2020 presidential election, Ramalho sidestepped, saying only that “the results are final” and his focus was on “moving forward” to secure election integrity.
Meet Richard Scotti
Headline: Nevada Current, 4/13/2022
Richard Scotti, a former district judge, on his campaign website leads with a vow to “restore election security & transparency.” In an interview with Vegas Legal, Scotti said elections “have been lagging” in the areas of security and technology: “Our elections are vulnerable to unscrupulous people voting if they are not citizens; or impersonating someone else to vote; or voting if they are not registered; or voting twice; or voting if they are from out of state.”
In an interview with the Nevada First Agenda Association on GrabetTV, Scotti notes that as secretary of state he would “decertify Dominion machines,” “file a lot of lawsuits to make sure we have a constitutional process,” “clean the voter rolls” and “make sure that we stop the federalization of our elections here because that violates so many parts of our constitution.” In a debate, Scotti endorsed a move toward paper ballots — a popular push among election outcome deniers. [emphasis added]
Meet Jesse Haw
Headline: Nevada Current, 4/13/2022
Jesse Haw, a real estate developer who briefly served as an appointed member of the Nevada State Senate in 2016 during the Raiders stadium special session, announced his run in January. In that announcement, he claimed he will have “over $550,000 in support.”
On his campaign website, Haw claims that “a handful of extreme liberals in Carson City have made it easier to cheat and harder to get caught.” In campaign ads and on social media, Haw emphasizes the issue of voter identification and suggests Nevada is 50th in election integrity — something independent fact checkers have determined to be “mostly false.”
4/14/2022 update starts here
Meet Jim Marchant
Headline: Nevada Current, 4/13/2022
Jim Marchant, one of the first to throw his hat into the race, has garnered national attention for his full-throated commitment to Trump and false narratives surrounding election integrity. The former Nevada assemblyman and failed congressional candidate was among a handful of Republicans who cried fraud after the 2020 election. Marchant sued Cegavske in her role as secretary of state, as well as Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria, in an attempt to overturn his 5-point loss to Democratic U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford. The case was thrown out.
Meet Greg Lopez
Greg Lopez, the former Parker mayor who took third place in the 2018 Republican primary for governor, will be on the top of the primary ballot for governor after he pledged to pardon Peters should she be convicted and he become governor.
Meet Tina Peters
Headline: The Colorado Sun, 4/11/2021
The Crazies have taken over the Colorado GOP.
Peters, the embattled Mesa County clerk indicted for her alleged role in a breach of her county’s election system, secured top line on the ballot in the Republican primary for Colorado secretary of state with 60% of the vote.
The crowd greeted Peters enthusiastically when she got up to make a speech. Delegates roared in support when she discussed voting machines, chanting “TINA! TINA! TINA!” as she concluded her remarks.
Meet Ron Hanks
Headline: Colorado Newsline, 4/10/2022
“Party leaders and campaign advisors warned candidates nationwide not to speak about election integrity. Candidates more focused on opportunism and personal advancement listened,” Hanks wrote in a Wednesday Facebook post falsely claiming former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election. “I didn’t listen — because I didn’t ask.”
Headline: 9News NBC, 4/8/2022
Voters will have a decision to make when picking which candidates make it from the June 28 primary to the Nov. 8 general election.
Do they want conservative Republicans or conservative Republicans who support election conspiracy theories?
Headline: 9News NBC, 4/8/2022
Congressman Ken Buck (R-Windsor) couldn't garner enough support at Friday's GOP assembly to keep a farther-right rival off the ballot. Bob Lewis, a real estate broker from Elbert County, finished considerably ahead of Buck and will have the top line on the GOP primary ballot. Lewis criticized Buck for referring to election conspiracy theorists as "conspiracy theorists." [emphasis added]And Ken Buck is already one of the wackiest shits in the House.
Headline: Milwaukie Journal Sentinel,4/7/2022
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos of Rochester has sought to tamp down talk of pursuing the impossible task of decertifying the 2020 election. Perhaps inadvertently, he breathed life into the movement when he met with attorney John Eastman a week and a half before a federal judge determined Eastman had likely committed a crime by trying to help Trump stay in office. [emphasis added]
Vos last summer gave former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman a taxpayer-funded budget of $676,000 to oversee the review. Vos has taken a hands-off approach to the review and at times has been left out of the loop.
Headline: Washington Post, 4/6/2022
The occasion: The debut of a 42-minute film called “Rigged: The Zuckerberg Funded Plot to Defeat Donald Trump" from Citizens United President and Trump ally David Bossie that stars a range of Trump advisers and alleges Facebook helped Democrats by pouring money into states for voter turnout and education efforts. A hyperbolic poster advertising the movie, with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg devilishly grabbing cash, was perched by the pool for a cinematic sunset as guests strutted about clinking glasses.
Headline: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4/4/2022
Swaths of the party's grassroots are already angry with top Republicans over what they see as an inadequate response to the outcome of the 2020 election, with more than three dozen county parties passing resolutions calling for President Joe Biden's victory to be decertified.
4/3/2022 update starts here
Meet Jody Hice
GOP candidate for GA Secretary of State
Headline: ABC News, 4/2/2022
Yet, in Georgia, Trump-endorsed Republican Secretary of State candidate Rep. Jody Hice is leaning into his ties with the former president, and was caught on camera earlier this week committing to decertifying Biden's win if elected after pursuing relevant legal investigations. "
That's why I'm in the race," Hice told Lauren Windsor, an activist journalist, who questioned the representative posing undercover as a supporter at the Columbia County GOP meeting. "If we lose fair elections, we're in trouble. We have to get to the bottom of this, and we've got to fix it going forward."
No surprises here. Jody was, and probably still is, a dedicated follower of Freedom Caucus Crazy fashion.
3/28/2022 update starts here
Meet David Purdue
GOP candidate for GA governor
Headline from Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 3/27/2022
But cheers rang out Saturday when Perdue turned to Trump’s obsession by falsely claiming the 2020 “elections were absolutely stolen” thanks to Kemp.
And when he promised to ensure that “whoever was responsible goes to jail” if elected governor, loud chants of “lock him up!” erupted from Trump supporters gathered at the old dragway in Commerce. Perdue responded to the demands to imprison Kemp, his former political ally turned primary rival, by flashing a smile and a thumbs-up sign to the crowd.
3/25/2022 update starts here
NOW APPEARING!!!
True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht
Headline from Wisconsin State Journal, 3/24/2022
Members of True the Vote, a conservative group investigating elections around the country, said the data suggest those people were delivering ballots that weren’t their own. Others said the data is meaningless and could show nothing more than people going about their daily lives.
Similar to how the absentee ballot drop box shown here is positioned, the City of Middleton placed its box near the entrance to the library. Which means that every day dozens of staff members and hundred of regular library users passed by this location. And on Sunday morning, many members of neighboring St. Luke's Lutheran Church use the library parking lot.
Members of True the Vote are drooling idiots.
3/24/2022 update starts here
Meet Mr. Roboto, Alabama AG Steve Marshall
Headline from AL.com, 3/24/2022
Marshall, who was appearing before the committee testifying against the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, was asked by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., if Biden is “the duly elected and lawfully serving president of the United States of America.”
"He is the president of this country,” Marshall responded.
Asked again, the Alabama attorney general gave a similar answer: “He is the president of our country.”
“Are you answering that -- omitting the language ‘duly elected’ and ‘lawfully serving’ -- purposefully?” Whitehouse pressed Marshall.
After the attorney general gave another version of his two previous responses, Whitehouse asked: “And you have no view as to whether he was duly elected or is lawfully serving?”
“I’m telling you he is the president of the United States,” Marshall said.
Meet Big Fat Liar Janel Brandtjen
from Menomonee Falls WI
Headline from Wisconsin State Journal, 3/21/2022
Assembly elections committee chair Rep. Janel Brandtjen, R-Menomonee Falls, has long derided the way the 2020 election was conducted, requesting information from Wisconsin counties as a first step toward what she described as a “full, cyber-forensic audit of tabulators and inspection of the physical ballots” from the election. She has also provided a platform for a man convicted of mail and bank fraud to give a presentation featuring false and unprovable claims about the 2020 election. She did not respond to a request for comment.
Meet Jefferson Davis (yup!)
from Menomonee Falls WI
Headline from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3/18/2022
Vos' words emboldened proponents of the unsupported narrative that systemic fraud affected Wisconsin's election outcome and played into a Republican Party talking point nationally. "He has never said these words before," Jefferson Davis, a former Menomonee Falls village president who met with Vos at the Capitol, told a crowd gathered in Plover Wednesday night to rally for the impossible and illegal idea. "So we got the needle to move from here to here."
Meet Kari Lake,
Trump-endorsed AZ GOP gubernatorial candidate
Headline from NPR, 3/17/2022
Donald Trump, got lots of attention with an introductory ad in which she invoked the lie that the 2020 election was rigged (and that the news media won't cover the rigging).
"If you're watching this ad right now, it means you're in the middle of watching a fake news program," Lake said in the ad. "You know how to know it's fake? Because they won't even cover the biggest story out there: the rigged election of 2020. And rigged elections have consequences." The Lake campaign spent only about $5,000 on the ad buy on local broadcast stations in Phoenix, Tucson and Yuma, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact.
The spot aired 13 times locally, compared with 20 times on national cable. Ads, especially introductory ones, are intended to get attention, and this one appears to have gotten a good bang for the campaign's buck.
Headline from The Nevada Independent, 3/13/2022
As Clark County Sheriff, Lombardo may enjoy more name recognition in Southern Nevada than others in the field, but Gilbert’s pugnacity and unabashed worship of Trump continues to stir a GOP base still stewing over the 2020 election. I suspect the attention Gilbert is generating is also good for the Reno attorney’s law practice.
Gilbert’s embrace of the Big Lie continued this past week in Las Vegas with a political event at Calvary Chapel Lone Mountain Church featuring election conspiracy-spinner and Ichabod Crane-look alike Capt. Seth Keshel, also known as “Captain K.”
Headline: Business Insider, 3/6/2022
"It's a class-action lawsuit against all machines," Lindell said at a rally for Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake on Saturday. "They're defective devices," Lindell said, adding that his lawyers have been working on the lawsuit for five months.
He also claimed that he has around 300 county commissioners and clerks on board as plaintiffs.
Thtere are 3,006 counties in the United States, which translates into at least 15,000 commissioners and clerks. If we can believe Lindell, he's rounded up a very small group of crackpots.
3/4/2022 update starts here
Headline from NPR, 3/4/2022
NPR excerpt:
Critics of the so-called voter reform push see it as part of a slide toward authoritarianism. But State Rep. John Fillmore, an architect of some of the bills currently pending in Arizona, disputes claims that Republicans want to suppress votes.
"I want every American to have the opportunity to vote," Fillmore said one sunny morning on the plaza in front of the Arizona House of Representatives.
Fillmore represents one of Arizona's most conservative districts around Apache Junction, in the suburban desert east of Phoenix. The businessman often seen in a bolo tie says many of the proposed bills, which range from measures to require all ballots be hand counted to restrictions on ballot drop off boxes, are a response to concerns by his constituents.
Headline from AP, 2/17/2022
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch said five months ago that President Joe Biden won Wisconsin, but on Thursday she dodged the question while awaiting the results of pending GOP-led investigations into the 2020 election.
Kleefisch’s change in position on Biden’s win comes as other Republican candidates in the governor’s race have questioned the win and one, state Rep. Timothy Ramthun, has tried unsuccessfully to award the state’s Electoral College votes to Donald Trump.
Headline from San Antonio Current, 2/21/2022
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's tongue has gotten him into verbal altercations with actors, comedians, musicians and U.S. politicians on both sides of the aisle. Now, Texas' junior Republican senator has drawn the ire of Mexico, the country to which he fled as Winter Storm Uri blanketed the state in ice last February.
After Cruz accused Mexico of "undermining the rule of law," its U.S. ambassador, Esteban Moctezuma, excoriated the senator in a letter on Friday, saying that at least in his country, political candidates acknowledge when they lose an election, The Hill reports.
Headline from WKOW, 2/20/2022
"By a raw vote count, yes, Biden did get more votes in the state of Wisconsin but we don't know - there was obviously a lot of concerns with how those votes were cast," LeMahieu said.
Reviews by the Legislative Audit Bureau and conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty found the Wisconsin Elections Commission issued guidance that ran afoul of state law because issues like drop boxes and nursing home voting should have been established as formal rules instead of written guidance. However, those reviews also both state there was no evidence of widespread fraud that would've changed the election's outcome.
Green Bay Press Gazette, 2/12/2022
IRONY ALERT
That inaction, to Brand and other local Republicans, outweighs the years of conservative policies Vos has been effective at putting into state law and is allowing Republican distrust in elections to fester. "
So he can do 1,000 things right, OK? But until that gets fixed, then there's going to be lots of discouraged people out here," said Doug Rogalla, the chairman of the Monroe County Republican Party, who is considering with his colleagues whether to formally denounce the speaker.
"And my job is to make sure they go out to vote." [emphasis added]
While supporting voter suppression!
Green Bay Press Gazette, 2/10/2022
Only one of the four — Brown County Board candidate Leanne Cramer — would speak with a Green Bay Press-Gazette reporter about her belief that the November 2020 election was rife with fraud.
"I said this in the candidates forum," Cramer said in reference to a late January event conducted for candidates in the County Board's three primaries. "I'm disappointed that the Wisconsin Supreme Court allowed (remote) ballot boxes. People who had gloves on, so they wouldn't leave fingerprints, were dumping ballots (in with ballots cast by actual voters). I said this in the forum and I almost got shot down. We need to fix 2020."
Headine from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2/8/2022)
Bernegger is the grandson of the founders of Hillshire Farm, the New London sausage business that became a national brand. As of 2016, he did not have a job and as of 2020, he had paid little of the $1.7 million in restitution he owed from his fraud case, according to court documents.
2/4/2022 update starts here
Meet Timothy Baxter
masked up and
ready to kiss Trump's ass
New Hampshire Public Radio, 2/4/2022
As introduced, House Bill 1484 directs the Speaker of the House to “appoint an independent third party to conduct a forensic audit of the general election that took place on November 3, 2020,” though it doesn’t elaborate on what the audit would entail besides a search for “anomalies or discrepancies” in the results. The bill would allow members of the public to contribute to the cost of the audit that could easily run into millions of dollars.
Rep. Timothy Baxter of Seabrook, the bill’s prime sponsor and a candidate in the Republican primary for New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District, said he filed the legislation because “a majority of this state thinks either the 2016 or 2020 election was stolen.” But polling from the University of New Hampshire after the 2020 election found that nearly two-thirds of New Hampshire residents accepted President Joe Biden’s victory as valid.
1/31/2022 update starts here
Meet Mark Fincham
masked up and
ready to suppress the vote
masked up and
ready to suppress the vote
New York Times, 1/30/2022
The significance of the America First coalition’s parallel efforts can be seen clearly in Arizona, where the slate’s candidate is Mark Finchem, a former firefighter and real estate agent who has served in the state House since 2015 and has become the leading Republican contender for secretary of state. He has raised some $663,000 for his campaign, according to state filings, more than the two leading Democratic candidates combined.
Mr. Finchem, who declined to comment for this article, was in Washington on Jan. 6 and attended the Stop the Steal rally that led to the storming of the Capitol. He has publicly acknowledged his affiliation with the Oath Keepers, the far-right militia group whose leader and other members were charged with seditious conspiracy for their roles in the Capitol riot. He championed the Republican-ordered review of the 2020 vote in Maricopa County — though he never endorsed its conclusion that Mr. Biden won — and received a prime speaking spot in Mr. Trump’s Jan. 15 rally outside Phoenix.
Douglas Frank, an Ohio math teacher, affixed his Texas flag print bow tie, led a booming rendition of the National Anthem and then walked a crowd through an absurd mathematical equation that he claimed proves the 2020 election was stolen.
"Just about every county in the country was hacked," Frank told the dozens of Texans huddled in a ballroom at a local country club on Sunday. When he finished speaking more than 90 minutes later, they gave him a standing ovation.
This is how the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen grows even bigger. More than a year later, there is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. But Frank is still winning audiences with lawmakers, election officials and voters across the country.
Currently on leave from his teaching position, Frank has traveled to Texas and dozens of other states, claiming he uncovered an algorithm proving the 2020 election was stolen nationwide, even as his conclusions have been debunked by mathematicians and election experts.
You won't find Frank's pic among the faculty and staff at the Schilling School for the Gifted in Cincinnati. (Wonder how much these folks are paid?)
Nevada Independent, 1/16/2022
By now, even your family dog is hip to Trump’s hustle.
Listeners heard yet another episode in the dangerous soap opera of Trump’s Big Lie. At a time when a congressional committee is attempting to investigate the root causes of the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol by rage-fueled Trump supporters and the Senate is still debating voting rights in 2022, the former president continues to campaign for his lost cause election as he schemes for 2024.
Some may question whether the NPR co-host should have interviewed the former President at all. Despite Inskeep’s best efforts, the interview still resulted in a page torn from Trump’s playbook: Repeat your misdirection, eat up air time, try to steam roll the host and, failing that, get the last word by hanging up.
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Meet Kari Lake
GOP candidate for Governor in Arizona
masked up and ready to grovel
Trump responded that the candidates “that are smart” are going to press his case, citing Kari Lake, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Arizona. Lake, a former news anchor, has parroted Trump’s baseless claims about election fraud.
“She’s very big on this issue,” Trump said. “She’s leading by a lot. People have no idea how big this issue is, and they don’t want it to happen again. . . . And the only way it’s not going to happen again is you have to solve the problem of the presidential rigged election of 2020.”
New York Times, 1/5/2022
With broken glass and debris still scattered across the Capitol complex, well over half of House Republicans voted against certifying the election, echoing Mr. Trump’s false claims of fraud. Even as the national committee drafted a statement condemning the violence — it did not mention Mr. Trump by name — some committee members pressed to add an expression of sympathy for the views of the crowd that had mobbed the Capitol. They had to be overruled.
The next morning, Mr. Trump called into the committee’s meeting via speakerphone. “We love you!” some of the attendees shouted.
“Many of us from the Northeast states just rolled our eyes,” said Bill Palatucci, a Republican national committeeman from New Jersey and a prominent Trump critic inside the party.Word of the day from Merriam-Webster
The Guardian, 1/5/2022
In the year since the insurrection that reverberated around the world, Trump’s stranglehold on Republicans has seemingly become stronger, not weaker. Graham was soon back on the golf course with him; McCarthy was soon kissing the ring at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Many leaders of the party have set about changing the narrative of the insurrection to portray it as a heroic last stand – a new “lost cause”.
“We now have a major political party that is embracing violence systematically,” said Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution thinktank in Washington and former White House official. “They’re rewriting the events of January 6. They’re referring, as President Trump does, to these people as patriots. They are stirring up a minority.”
Trump was the first president in American history to inspire an attempted coup. After a rally where the defeated incumbent urged supporters to “fight like hell”, the angry mob laid siege to the US Capitol to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.
Five people died, scores of police were beaten and bloodied and there was about $1.5m in damage in the first major attack on the Capitol since the war of 1812. More than 700 people have been charged in one of the biggest criminal investigations in American history.
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MSNBC, 12/29/2021
As 2021 got underway, a variety of independent polls shows many Republican voters embracing anti-election conspiracy theories, believing Donald Trump's Big Lie, and questioning the legitimacy of Joe Biden's presidency. As 2021 comes to a close, it's discouraging to see the problem persist — and by some measures, intensify.
U.S. News reported yesterday:
A new University of Massachusetts Amherst poll released Tuesday highlights how partisanship has hardened in the year since the deadly Jan. 6 attack and the stark breakdown on how Democrats and Republicans view that day and the results of last November's presidential race.... Of Republicans polled, an overwhelming majority of them – 71% – still contest the 2020 election results.
Washington Post, 12/22/2021
More than a year after Donald Trump lost the presidency, election officials across the country are facing a growing barrage of claims that the vote was not secure and demands to investigate or decertify the outcome, efforts that are eating up hundreds of hours of government time and spreading distrust in elections.
The ongoing attack on the vote is being driven in part by well-funded Trump associates, who have gained audiences with top state officials and are pushing to inspect protected machines and urging them to conduct audits or sign on to a lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 results. And the campaign is being bolstered by grass-roots energy, as local residents who have absorbed baseless allegations of ballot fraud are now forcing election administrators to address the false claims.
Up North News, 12/21/2021
Wisconsin Republicans have put a pretty big focus on undermining the public’s faith in elections over the last year. They’ve taken so many actions to do so that it’s almost hard to remember them all. That’s right, the Badger State’s federal and state lawmakers fell right in line with former President Donald Trump after he began spreading the Big Lie that widespread fraud led to his loss to Joe Biden in 2020.
Press-Enterprise, 12/18/2021
The election equipment used in last year’s presidential election in the heavily Republican county has already been decertified by the state after Fulton County let a software company inspect the equipment. The firm — West Chester-based software company Wake TSI — was not federally accredited to inspect voting machines, and it later played a role in Republicans’ widely discredited partisan “audit” in Arizona.
Allowing a similarly unaccredited and inexperienced contractor hired by Pennsylvania’s Senate Republicans to obtain digital data from the equipment will spoil evidence in Fulton County’s lawsuit challenging the state’s decertification, lawyers for DeGraffenreid wrote in a court filing.
Independent, 12/17/2021
They are just three little words, but they have become nearly impossible for many Republicans to say: “Joe Biden won."
Eleven months after the Democrat’s inauguration, Republican lawmakers and candidates across the country are squirming and stumbling rather than acknowledging the fact of Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election. In debates and interviews, they offer circular statements or vague answers when asked whether they believe Biden won.
Yes or no?
In Minnesota this week, five GOP candidates for governor came up with 1,400 other words when asked by conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt for an answer.
Washingotn Post, 12/16/2021
All are being paid with Wisconsin taxpayer money as part of a legislative-backed investigation into the 2020 results headed by a former state Supreme Court justice that has picked up steam in recent weeks. The inquiry, the latest gambit by Republicans to reexamine the 2020 election nationally, makes little pretense of neutrality and is being led by figures who have shown allegiance to Trump or embraced false claims of fraud.
The former president personally lobbied state lawmakers to pursue the Wisconsin investigation and spurred on other ballot reviews around the country, leaning on legislators to revisit the vote more than a year after Americans went to the polls.
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Reuters, 12/15/2021
For the past year, Flynn, Waldron and other intelligence veterans have helped propagate some of the outlandish theories undercutting Americans’ faith in democracy. They pitched false accusations to lawmakers and the public about how the election had been compromised, pushed spurious lawsuits to challenge its outcome, and bankrolled efforts to conduct partisan audits of the results. They provided briefings to members of Congress on methods for overturning the election, and worked aside some of the leading actors in Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement.
“I think we’re doing a huge service,” Waldron told Reuters in an interview.
In these efforts, Flynn, Waldron and their colleagues publicly touted their military-intelligence training, arguing that their expertise on the battlefield provided them special insight into alleged election fraud at home in America.
Washington Post, 12/15/2021
In Pennsylvania, Republicans led by Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman insist the undertaking has nothing to do with Trump or trying to overturn last year’s election. Rather, they say the point is to fix problems with the state’s elections.
However, the 2020 election has been the focus of Republican-controlled committees in the Senate and House. There have been numerous hearings, hours of testimony, and proposed legislation.
In an interview Tuesday, Trump praised the work of Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and argued that many of the problems that arose in the election were due to pandemic-related changes made outside of the legislative process.
“They used COVID in order to cheat, as a way of cheating,” Trump said. “In Pennsylvania, Sen. Corman and a whole group of people are totally engaged because they’ve now found that things were much different than they were told.”
Days after announcing his candidacy for governor, Republican David Perdue further embraced debunked claims of electoral fraud in Georgia’s 2020 presidential race by joining a lawsuit seeking to prove he and former President Donald Trump were cheated out of election victories.
The suit claims that fraudulent or counterfeit ballots were counted in Fulton County, the state’s most populous jurisdiction, although investigators rebutted the same claims previously.
Those leading the Republican review in Wisconsin have consulted with many of the same figures that advised Arizona's partisan ballot review. Wisconsin taxpayers paid to send Michael Gableman, who is leading the review, to South Dakota for a forum hosted by MyPillow CEO and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell, and to Arizona to observe the review taking place there this summer, records obtained by American Oversight show.
But in Arizona, though, ballots were reviewed and recounted for weeks in a Phoenix coliseum, with video cameras and journalists present. In Wisconsin, the review by Gableman, a former state Supreme Court justice appointed to lead the review by Republican state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Republican lawmakers, is more secretive, largely taking place behind the tinted doors of a nondescript office that Gableman and his staff are using.
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Wisconsin State Journal, 12/10/2021
"I think people put ideas forward, sometimes they are proven to be true, sometimes they are not proven to be true, but I wouldn't say they are conspiracy theories," Vos said.
Asked if he believes Biden stole the election, Vos said only that Biden is the president.
Vos hired former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman earlier this year to investigate the 2020 election in Wisconsin. Gableman has taken intense criticism from Democrats for hiring partisan assistants but Vos defended him, saying he wants people who will ask questions and do research working on the probe.
Anchorage Press, 12/7/2021
On the agenda for tonight's Anchorage Assembly meeting is Memorandum 770-2021, Anchorage Election Commission appointments. Mayor Bronson has named Heather Clopton and Cecelia Donelson to the Commission and it didn’t take much sleuthing to figure out why.
Save Anchorage has engaged in disinformation campaigns related to covid, mask wearing and election fraud. The FBI arrested a member of the group for their alleged role in the January 6 armed insurrection while others celebrated the attack on democracy. The group’s handlers have advocated for the dismantling of Anchorage’s Vote By Mail System — a notion Mayor Bronson previously asserted he is on board with.
To nobody’s surprise, Cecelia Donelson has been an active member of the far-right Save Anchorage Facebook group since July 13, 2020. She has advocated for a return to in-person voting, asserting in a comment made to Must Read Alaska on June 6, that there were “numerous areas of suspected fraudulent activities” in this year’s Anchorage Municipal election. In her comment, Donelson appears to have also referenced the Arizona recount for the 2020 presidential election, which found no proof of corruption.
12/9/2021 post starts here
Business Insider, 12/7/2021
"The Fake News also touted, for about ten seconds, the fact that Joe Biden, a candidate with all the charisma of an old, rusty coin collection, had (supposedly) managed to rack up 81 million votes, more than any candidate in the history of American politics," Meadows wrote. "Then, in what seemed like the blink of an eye, they stopped talking about it. I have a suspicion this if that number were real, you wouldn't have been able to open a newspaper without seeing it."
Other Meadows posts:
2020
Trump sycophant, Mark Meadows, pants on fire. (10/5/2020)
Trump sycophant, Mark Meadows, pants on fire. (10/5/2020)
2019
Both sice now: when evenhandedness is simply bad journalism. (11/16/2019)
Meet the lemmings of Congress. (10/27/2019)
Freedom Caucus crazies gang up on Henry Kerner, (6/29/2019)
Mark Meadows ready to lead GOP on death march to border wall. (1/30/2019)
Both sice now: when evenhandedness is simply bad journalism. (11/16/2019)
Meet the lemmings of Congress. (10/27/2019)
Freedom Caucus crazies gang up on Henry Kerner, (6/29/2019)
Mark Meadows ready to lead GOP on death march to border wall. (1/30/2019)
2018
Men on black: Needing distractions, Freedom Caucus crazies Mark Meadows (current chair) and Jim Jordan (past chair) call for Rod Rosenstein's impeachment. (7/26/2018)
No surprise that Freedom Caucus crazy Mark Meadows prostrates himself on the altar of Trump. (7/24/2018)
Men on black: Needing distractions, Freedom Caucus crazies Mark Meadows (current chair) and Jim Jordan (past chair) call for Rod Rosenstein's impeachment. (7/26/2018)
No surprise that Freedom Caucus crazy Mark Meadows prostrates himself on the altar of Trump. (7/24/2018)
2017
51 U.S. House members implore Trump to legalize LGBT discrimination. (4/26/2017)
Donald Trump declares war on Freedom Caucus. (3/30/2017)
UPDATE. Really, Mark, just whose agenda is it? (1/4/2017)
2016
It's the same old line in the sand for the Freedom Caucus. (3/25/2016)
Freedom Caucus member Mark Meadows, one of Peter King's 'crazies', is in a hearts-and-minds mood with Mitch McConnell. (2/24/2016)
2015
Meet 'the crazies' in the U.S. House of Representatives. (10/6/2015)
No friend to the environment. (3/13/2015)
12/7/2021 update starts here
Kenosha News, 12/7/2021
All told, none of the 551 absentee ballot envelopes reviewed in Madison contained a partial or missing witness address or missing signatures from a witness or voter. The Audit Bureau also reviewed 12 pre-election tests of voting machines, finding every test accurately counted votes. A review of 95 pre-election tests of voting machines found all tests were conducted within 10 days before the election. [emphasis added]
“Despite repeated attempts to find problems, it’s once again clear that the Madison Clerk’s Office runs safe and fair elections,” Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway said in a statement responding to the audit. “In fact, the numbers for Madison actually reflected performance exceeding the statewide averages for other municipalities.”
12/6/2021 update starts here
Wisconsin State Journal, 12/6/2021
The backing for a possible route around Gov. Tony Evers was revealed during a private meeting on elections hosted by the American Legislative Exchange Council, which advocates conservative policies to state lawmakers in voting and other areas. Trump's former White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told attendees that his new organization, the Center for Election Integrity, was working with elected officials and business leaders in Wisconsin “to figure out the best path” around Evers, who has said he will block GOP-backed election measures.
Maine Beacon, 11/30/2021
Maine Reps. Abigail Griffin of Levant, Heidi Sampson of Alfred and Peggy Jo Stanley of Medway joined 186 Republican state legislators from 39 states in signing a letter that demands each state perform an election audit similar to one that Arizona Republicans recently attempted.
The Arizona audit was seen by many critics as a partisan attempt to further vote-rigging conspiracies peddled by Trump.
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In the swing state of Wisconsin, debate over the 2020 presidential election rages on. Investigations into the election continue there. And now GOP lawmakers want to strip the state's bipartisan elections agency of its power and give that power to the Republican-controlled state legislature. Wisconsin Public Radio's Laurel White reports.
LAUREL WHITE, BYLINE: The idea came from Wisconsin U.S. Senator Ron Johnson. The Republican cites part of the U.S. Constitution that says state legislatures can set the times, places and manner of federal elections. He says it's time for the Wisconsin legislature to, quote, "reassert its power.
Debate over the future of the Republican party is underway ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has some advice for the GOP. He says it's time to stop focusing on grievances and believing in conspiracy theories - strategies employed by former President Donald Trump.
Sorry, Chris, it's already been incorporated into the 2022 GOP platform.
Meanwhile, your concern stinks of opportunism.
Washingotn Post, 11/11/2021
Pretty much every time an ex-Trump ally comes out against the former president, the resistance cries foul. Where were you before, the chorus asks. You’re just doing it now because it’s convenient, it claims.
And in Chris Christie, it has a case in point. The former New Jersey governor’s apparent decision to step forward as a high-profile Trump critic comes after he became the first high-profile establishment Republican to legitimize Donald Trump in 2016.
Election results screenshot from New York Times (red banner added)
Washington Post, 11/10/2021
These are not trivial percentages. Tens of millions of Americans believe the "big lie” — that the election was stolen from Trump — even though there’s no evidence of significant voter fraud. Why?
The data points to three related explanations: tribal partisanship, a persistent tendency toward conspiratorial thinking among many Americans, and a sustained misinformation campaign by Trump and his allies.
Maybe it will all blow up in their faces
U.S. News and World Report 11/16/2021
And that distrust in America's democratic elections may end up hurting the very party whose prominent members have been advancing unsubstantiated accusations of election fraud, the survey found: One in 6 Republicans say they are less likely to vote in next year's midterm elections if no "forensic audits" are done.
CNN, 11/20/2021
Johnson's calls for a legislative takeover of the elections system demonstrate "the firm grasp that the (Donald) Trump wing of the Republican Party has not only everywhere, but particularly here in Wisconsin," said Jay Heck, who runs the state branch of Common Cause.
"It's a lot of political bluster, but it has to be taken seriously in these times," he added.
Meet Rebecca Kleefisch
WI GOP gubernatorial candidate for governor
Masked up and ready to take on the
Wisconsin Elections Commission
Wisconsin Public Radio, 11/15/2021
She spouts the usual GOP voter suppression gibberish.
"Our freedom, our way of life, and the future of our great nation all depend on free and fair elections — elections where every voter can trust the process and the result," she said. "Wisconsinites are sick and tired of unelected bureaucrats intentionally ignoring the law."
ABC News, 11/16/2021
An ABC News analysis of 12 high-profile battleground states reveals a trend: Republican candidates for state offices are either questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election or casting significant doubt on how elections are conducted and votes are counted in their home states. The states examined include Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, Georgia and Florida.
Across these states – five of which Trump won, and seven of which Joe Biden won – at least 15 Republican candidates running for statewide offices – governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and attorney general – have refused to acknowledge Biden's win or made other comments directly challenging the validity of the 2020 election, according to an ABC News review of public statements, interviews and campaign websites.
Pandering to the base
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Meet Jody Hice
& candidate for Georgia Secreteary of State,
masked up and ready to steal the 2020 election for Trump
NPR, 11/4/2020
Hice, who objected to Georgia's Electoral College votes after the insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol in January, is running on a platform that promises to "aggressively pursue voter fraud," "renew integrity" and replace the state's $100 million ballot-marking system that was rolled out just last year.
He is one of several pro-Trump Republican candidates in secretary of state races in swing states like Georgia, Arizona and Michigan who have embraced falsehoods about the systems they now want to oversee — attacking the 2020 election results and spreading misleading claims about voting machines and absentee ballots.
Related posts:
Meet the lemmings of Congress. (10/16/2019)
Meet the lemmings of Congress. (10/16/2019)
51 U.S. House members implore Trump to legalize LGBT discrimination. (4/30/2017)
Trump declare war on the Freedom Caucus. (4/2/2017)
Meet 'the crazies', the members of the U.S. House of Representatives' Freedom Caucus, (10/11/2015)
Meet the members of the Republican Study Committee. (7/8/2015)
Trump declare war on the Freedom Caucus. (4/2/2017)
Meet 'the crazies', the members of the U.S. House of Representatives' Freedom Caucus, (10/11/2015)
Meet the members of the Republican Study Committee. (7/8/2015)
Headline from New York Times
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12/12/2021
Witzel-Behl said she was being singled out because Senate Republicans did not subpoena officials from the Town of Little Suamico or Milwaukee County, who did not allow auditors to physically handle ballots during the audit.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Chris Kapenga, who signed the subpoena, declined to answer why Madison's clerk received a subpoena and the two other clerks did not.
Related post:
Wisconsin GOP Clown Show: State Senate president Chris Kapenga demonstrates the power of sycophancy. (6/30/2021)
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