Scores of nominated Republican candidates say 2020 election rigged: WP
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According to The Washington Post, US voters chose at least 108 candidates who repeated Trump's allegations about rigged elections.
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Former US President Donald Trump
An exclusive report published by The Washington Post showed that more than 100 Republican Party (GOP) primary winners support the allegations of former US President Donald Trump regarding the rigging of the 2020 US presidential race.
According to The Washington Post, US voters chose at least 108 candidates who repeated Trump's allegations about rigged elections.
The newspaper explained that its analysis "includes outcomes in the 14 states that held nominating primaries or conventions through the end of May. The survey includes contests for Congress and all statewide offices with power over election administration: governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and, in most cases, secretary of state."
Scores of Republican candidates who say election was rigged
The WP highlighted that "About a third of the way through the 2022 primaries, voters have nominated scores of Republican candidates for state and federal office who say the 2020 election was rigged."
"The majority of the election-denying candidates who have secured their nominations are running in districts or states that lean Republican, according to Cook Political Report ratings, meaning they are likely to win the offices they are seeking," the newspaper reported.
The newspaper warned that many of these Republican candidates "will hold positions with the power to interfere in the outcomes of future contests — to block the certification of election results, to change the rules around the awarding of their states’ electoral votes or to acquiesce to litigation attempting to set aside the popular vote."
In addition, The WP report detailed that those candidates "signed onto a lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 result, downplayed or sought to recast the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, or attended or expressed support for the rally that day."
On Tuesday, a Wall Street Journal report considered that there are multiple factors that will affect the midterm elections in the United States, including the ongoing inflation, the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine, as well as the sharp cultural divisions among the spectra of American society.
