{"id":9132,"date":"2022-10-24T18:58:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9132"},"modified":"2022-10-24T18:58:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:58:56","slug":"republican-nominees-in-40-states-think-the-2020-election-was-stolen-heres-why-that-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9132","title":{"rendered":"Republican Nominees In 40 States Think The 2020 Election Was Stolen. Here\u2019s Why That Matters."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Almost 200 Republicans who are on the ballot in November 2022 believe that President Biden\u2019s win in the 2020 election was illegitimate. But the 2020 election is over, it can\u2019t be undone \u2014 so why is this such a big deal? If a Republican thinks the 2020 election was stolen despite&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2021\/07\/29\/fact-check-arizona-audit-has-not-found-275-000-fraudulent-votes\/5391659001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">multiple<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/factcheck-usa-mules\/fact-check-does-2000-mules-provide-evidence-of-voter-fraud-in-the-2020-u-s-presidential-election-idUSL2N2XJ0OQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">investigations<\/a>&nbsp;finding&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2103619118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no evidence<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/voter-fraud-election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-7fcb6f134e528fee8237c7601db3328f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">widespread<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/lostnotstolen.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lost-Not-Stolen-The-Conservative-Case-that-Trump-Lost-and-Biden-Won-the-2020-Presidential-Election-July-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voter fraud<\/a>, they might not accept the results of the 2024 election, either. And if they\u2019re elected this November, they will be in a position to influence, and potentially overturn, the next presidential election.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/videos\/republican-nominees-in-40-states-think-the-2020-election-was-stolen-heres-why-that-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/videos\/republican-nominees-in-40-states-think-the-2020-election-was-stolen-heres-why-that-matters\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Almost 200 Republicans who are on the ballot in November 2022 believe that President Biden\u2019s win in the 2020 election was illegitimate. But the 2020 election is over, it can\u2019t be undone \u2014 so why is this such a big deal? If a Republican thinks the 2020 election was stolen despite multiple investigations finding no evidence of widespread voter fraud, they might not accept the results of the 2024 election, either. And if they\u2019re elected this November, they will be in a position to influence, and potentially overturn, the next presidential election.&#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":[431,660,221,372,198,171,132,506],"class_list":["post-9132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-lie","tag-lies","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132","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=9132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9133,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions\/9133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}