Republicans who back former President Donald Trump's false claim the 2020 election was stolen are their party's nominees for secretary of state in battleground states where they can play a decisive role in choosing a U.S. president.
Should they defeat their Democratic opponents in Tuesday's vote, these election deniers will be in charge of elections and vote counts in the swing states of Arizona and Nevada during the 2024 White House contest. In Michigan, the Republican candidate was projected to lose on Tuesday, according to Edison Research.Voting rights groups say the election of any of these Republican candidates threatens both the integrity of the next presidential election and U.S. democracy itself.
Finchem has said he would not have certified Biden's 2020 victory in Arizona. He supported an audit of Arizona's election results and co-sponsored a bill that would give the state's Republican-controlled legislature the power to overturn election results. After the 2020 election, he also called for the arrest of the state's Democratic secretary of state, Katie Hobbs, who is running for governor in this election.
A community college professor who opposes the teaching of evolution in schools, Karamo testified before the state legislature that she had seen sacks of votes being mysteriously dropped off in the middle of the night, and that voting machines flipped votes to Biden. No evidence has ever emerged supporting those claims.A former state assemblyman, Marchant opposed certification of Biden's win in Nevada.
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