{"id":8400,"date":"2022-07-19T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8400"},"modified":"2022-07-19T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T16:24:00","slug":"at-least-120-republican-nominees-deny-the-results-of-the-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8400","title":{"rendered":"At Least 120 Republican Nominees Deny The Results Of The 2020 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Since the 2020 election,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/there-is-more-than-one-big-lie\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">millions of Republican voters<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-big-lie-voting-laws\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have accepted<\/a>&nbsp;former President Donald Trump\u2019s false claim that the presidential election was stolen from him. And now, here in 2022, many Republican politicians have capitalized on this lie and have won elections of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This election cycle, FiveThirtyEight is tracking the views of every Republican candidate for Senate, House, governor, attorney general and secretary of state on the legitimacy of the 2020 election. And now that we\u2019re halfway through the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/tag\/primary-results\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">primary season<\/a>, we can say definitively that at least 120 election deniers have won their party\u2019s nomination and will be on the ballot in the fall.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-fivethirtyeight\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"3kjLzA7hYK\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/at-least-120-republicans-who-deny-the-2020-election-results-will-be-on-the-ballot-in-november\/\">At Least 120 Republican Nominees Deny The Results Of The 2020 Election<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;At Least 120 Republican Nominees Deny The Results Of The 2020 Election&#8221; &#8212; FiveThirtyEight\" src=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/at-least-120-republicans-who-deny-the-2020-election-results-will-be-on-the-ballot-in-november\/embed\/#?secret=E9Zf3C9K9W#?secret=3kjLzA7hYK\" data-secret=\"3kjLzA7hYK\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Since the 2020 election, millions of Republican voters have accepted former President Donald Trump\u2019s false claim that the presidential election was stolen from him. And now, here in 2022, many Republican politicians have capitalized on this lie and have won elections of their own.<\/p>\n<p>This election cycle, FiveThirtyEight is tracking the views of every Republican candidate for Senate, House, governor, attorney general and secretary of state on the legitimacy of the 2020 election. And now that we\u2019re halfway through the primary season, we can say definitively that at least 120 election deniers have won their party\u2019s nomination and will be on the ballot in the fall.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,372,198,135,132,130,506,1691,170],"class_list":["post-8400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-falsehoods","tag-lies","tag-republican","tag-republicans","tag-the-big-lie","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8401,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions\/8401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}