Trump election fraud claims fuel GOP secretary of state campaigns
Trump’s unrelenting and false claim of election fraud in 2020 is being embraced by several Republican secretary of state candidates running in 2022. Not all are winning their GOP primaries.
Julia Mueller and Hannah Schoenbaum
Medill News Service
- Several GOP secretary of state candidates are embracing Donald Trump’s false election fraud claims.
- The former president has endorsed Republican candidates in Ohio, Georgia, Michigan and Arizona.
- The Trump-backed candidate in Ohio won but lost in Georgia against Trump target Brad Raffensperger.
WASHINGTON – Colorado Republican secretary of state candidate Tina Peters champions former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claim that the 2020 election results were fraudulent even though he hasn’t endorsed her in the state’s GOP primary. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who won the GOP nomination for a second term, has Trump’s endorsement despite being more cautious in criticizing the 2020 election results.
