Nearly 1 in 3 Republican candidates for statewide offices that play a role in overseeing, certifying or defending elections supported overturning the results of the 2020 presidential race, according to an Associated Press review.
Many of the most aggressive candidates see themselves as part of a movement to uncover a grand election conspiracy they blame for Trump's loss.
Now, in all but one of the battleground states that decided the 2020 race, there is a Republican candidate on the ticket who, like Finchem, has suggested overturning the Democrat's win. The exception is Georgia, where the GOP incumbents beat back a slate of challengers Trump supported to punish them for not awarding the state to him rather than Biden, the actual winner., state Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor, attended the Jan.
"If even one or two of these people win, we're in a full-blown constitutional crisis," said Ellen Kurz, a Democrat whose group, iVote, is involved in the swing state secretary of state races."I don’t want to give them more power than they actually have to undermine us and our faith in the election process," said Sylvia Albert, director of voting and elections for Common Cause, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for expanded voter access.
In Wyoming, state Rep. Chuck Gray, who won last month's GOP primary for secretary of state, faces no opponent from the Democratic Party or any other group in November in a state that Trump won by 43 percentage points. Gray has repeated Trump's lies about 2020 being "rigged," traveled to Arizona to watch a partisan review of ballots that was derided as deeply flawed and proposed additional regular election audits in Wyoming.
"Democracy is not a partisan issue," said Thania Sanchez of States United Action, an organization tracking candidates who deny the 2020 outcome and are running for statewide office. "A lot of Republicans have been consistent about not spreading the lies about the 2020 election."
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