Trump's Election Lies Are Taking Over Republican Senate Races

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Cameron Joseph
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Six months after the Capitol riots, President Trump's election lies are dominating Senate GOP primaries. In 7 of the 8 top Senate battlegrounds, Republicans are falling over themselves to prove they're Trumpy enough for the base and avoid his ire.

Trump’s Election Lies Are Taking Over Republican Senate Races
It’s been six months since the Capitol Riot, and GOP candidates are Trumpier than ever.
vice.com
8:57 AM · Jul 7, 2021

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dbw45/trumps-election-lies-are-taking-over-republican-senate-races

As President Trump wailed that the 2020 election was being stolen from him last winter, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt sprang into action to back up his wild claims.

Laxalt, Trump’s Nevada campaign co-chairman, filed an injunction to stop Nevada’s largest county from counting mail ballots. He spoke at a “Stop the Steal” rally. He claimed he had evidence of “dead voters that have been counted.” He said “illegals” had cast thousands of ballots, suggesting undocumented immigrants had flipped the state against Trump. He sued to get Joe Biden’s win overturned. Even after Nevada had certified its results, he filed a Dec. 31 lawsuit that alleged Nevada’s Republican secretary of state hadn’t kept noncitizens from voting.

“Serious questions remain as to whether we did indeed hold a secure and accurate election in Nevada,” Laxalt wrote in a mid-November op-ed. “We now know that there are thousands of illegal votes consisting of a combination of dead voters, out-of-state voters, double voters (those who cast ballots in Nevada and another state), among other improper votes.”

Now, Laxalt is gearing up for a return to centerstage—one of a number of Republicans across the country who have embraced and promulgated Trump’s election lies as they seek to win Senate seats next fall.

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