QAnon Figure Ron Watkins Announces Plans to Run for Congress in Arizona
Source: Rolling Stone
Prominent QAnon figure Ron Watkins has announced his plans to run for Congress in Arizona via a dramatic video on Thursday. Earlier in the day he filed a statement of interest to run in Arizonas first congressional district against Democratic Rep. Tom OHalleran, an initial step to petition for signatures to appear on the ballot, as Vice reports.
His apparent bid will make him the most prominent QAnon-related person to run for office in the United States, signifying how deep the far-right conspiracy-driven group has recently taken hold within the Republican party.
In the clip released Thursday evening, he appeared outside Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovichs office. He lauded the AG for proceeding on election fraud cases and re-upped the QAnon false claim that the election was stolen from Donald Trump via election fraud. His beliefs along with encouragement from his pastor Jeff Durbin from Apologia Church led to his decision to run against OHalleran, whom he called OHooligan in the video.
Ive come to realize that following Gods word is not always the easiest route but if we dont follow our beliefs and the founding principles of our nation, it will crumble this must stop now, he said. Therefore I have decided to double down with God as my compass to take this fight to the swamp of Washington D.C. I am here to formally announce my run for Congress in Arizona district number one.
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/qanon-ron-watkins-congress-arizona-1242682/
dalton99a
(81,488 posts)Thus saith the LORD
hibbing
(10,098 posts)Harker
(14,018 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Professing a belief in the Big Lie will become the Kiss of Death. It will become the litmus test for certain political failure. Common, everyday voters will make a determination at election time. If you believe that Trump beat Joe Biden, you're out. And all of this, "I'm not sure who won the 2020 election" nonsense will be interpreted as believing in the Big Lie.
Reality has a way of eventually winning the day.
intrepidity
(7,296 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,591 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)That could really work to our favor.
madeup64
(257 posts)"Because that book he wrote is long and I'm not really that great with the reading comprehension skills necessary to understand literary works not named "Go Dog Go." So instead I follow a guy who fucked a pornstar while his wife was at home recovering from having his child and then paid her off to keep quiet."
I'm almost positive Rolling Stone must have missed that part of the quote.