More than 130 candidates who have denied or questioned the results of the 2020 presidential election have been elected to the United States Congress or state government positions.
Florida and Texas are among those that elected the most denialist politicians in these elections, including re-electing state governors Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott, who also embraced voter fraud ideas.
Abbott has backed a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election in four states across the country.
DeSantis campaigned in Florida against “election crimes” before the election, leading to the arrest of 20 people for allegedly voting illegally.
Alabama, Idaho and South Dakota also elected deniers as governors.
Among the cases of electoral denier politicians is Kay Ivey, re-elected for a second term as governor of Alabama. Ivey even had a campaign ad in which she claimed that “tech companies and liberals in Democratic states stole Trump’s election” and promised that in her state that would not happen.
The three governors are among nearly 300 Republican candidates across the country who have supported the theory – promoted by former President Donald Trump – that the 2020 elections were fraudulent or that they questioned the results of those elections, according to Brookings data. Institute.
Among the Republican senators who embrace these ideas and say victorious in their disputes in the terça-feira elections is the writer JD Vance, who won a close fight in Ohio, and Congressman Ted Budd, from North Carolina, who enters the Senate for the first time.
JD Vance defended that the 2020 election was stolen, that there was a large number of people who voted “illegally”, and he also supported the position of Missouri Senator Josh Hawley of refusing to certify the votes of the electoral college, in 06 from January.
Budd, who served three terms in the House of Representatives, accused Democrats of endangering “electoral integrity” and introduced a bill in Congress to combat voter fraud.
In addition to denial congressmen, there are also candidates for positions that have weight in the electoral processes of the states, such as attorney general, governor or secretary of state.
Florida, Ohio, South Carolina and Alabama on Tuesday elected candidates who espoused false theories of voter fraud.
In Florida, for example, Attorney General Ashley Mood, who was reelected for a second term, led, along with Governor DeSantis, the campaign to arrest people accused of “illegal voting.”
Source: TSF
