More than 100 GOP primary election winners have embraced Trump’s stolen election claims (this irks them like nothing else)

News.yahoo.com ^ | 6/14/22 | Alex Woodward

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More than 100 Republicans who won their 2022 primary elections have supported and amplified Donald Trump’s baseless assertion that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, a fraudulent claim that fuelled riots at the US Capitol and is central to a House committee investigation into the attack.

An analysis from The Washington Post, reviewing the field of candidates in this year’s races through 7 June primaries, has so far found that voters picked seven candidates for US Senate, 82 candidates for the House of Representatives, five for governor, four for state attorney general and one for secretary of state who have publicly denied or directly questioned the outcome of the 2020 election.

In total, voters have selected 149 candidates for statewide office and Congress who have repeated the former president’s claims or campaigned on platforms promoting “election integrity” and restoring “voter confidence” that Mr Trump himself undermined, expanding a nationwide strategy in GOP-dominated state legislatures to restrict ballot access and roll back voting rights.

[poconopundit]

Cool graphic there, rlmorel!

[rlmorel]

Tells the whole story, does it not?

You know what the Left says when we trot that out?

“Oh, they were just going to and from work” and if we retort “Really? at 0230 AM?” they say “Oh, he was probably just going to a convenience store looking for cigarettes” or something like that.

And they say it with a smirk.