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Battleground States Reject Election Deniers
November 13, 2022 at 8:08 am EST By Taegan Goddard 50 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2022/11/13/battleground-states-reject-election-deniers/
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Voters in the six major battlegrounds where Donald Trump tried to reverse his defeat in 2020 rejected election-denying candidates seeking to control their states election systems this year, a resounding signal that Americans have grown weary of the former presidents unfounded claims of widespread fraud, the Washington Post reports.
Candidates for secretary of state in Michigan, Arizona and Nevada who had echoed Trumps false accusations lost their contests on Tuesday, with the latter race called Saturday night. A fourth candidate never made it out of his May primary in Georgia. In Pennsylvania, one of the nations most prominent election deniers lost his bid for governor, a job that would have given him the power to appoint the secretary of state. And in Wisconsin, an election-denying contenders loss in the governors race effectively blocked a move to put election administration under partisan control.
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peppertree
(21,639 posts)By denying them election.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)His firewall went up in smoke.