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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu May 21, 2020, 02:58 PM May 2020

Two Weeks Ago, She Predicted Trump Would Use COVID to Arrest Obama. Now She's a GOP Senate Candidate

A QAnon conspiracy theorist won the GOP Senate primary in Oregon on Tuesday, giving a massive electoral stage to the bizarre pro-Trump movement that the FBI considers a potential domestic terror threat.

Jo Rae Perkins, an insurance agent and avowed QAnon believer, handily won the contest to take on Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) in the general election. Perkins, who has launched unsuccessful Senate and House bids in the past, beat her nearest Republican primary opponent by nearly 20 percentage points on Tuesday.

To celebrate, Perkins tweeted a video acknowledging the support she had received from QAnon believers. The victory speech included references to QAnon slogan “Where we go one, we go all,” QAnon followers who call themselves “Anons,” and “Q,” the anonymous person or group whose “clues” make up the basis of QAnon.

“I stand with President Trump, I stand with Q and the team,” Perkins said, holding up a sign with a QAnon slogan on it. “Thank you Anons, thank you patriots.”

https://news.yahoo.com/two-weeks-ago-she-predicted-233110929.html

I predict Merkley in a landslide.

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Two Weeks Ago, She Predicted Trump Would Use COVID to Arrest Obama. Now She's a GOP Senate Candidate (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
Don't take this for granted... lame54 May 2020 #1
I've worked quite a bit in Oregon Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 #2
Now they have the bodybaggers. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #3
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