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Politics
Kenny Stancil

210+ GOP election deniers won races

Republican U.S. Senate candidate JD Vance speaks to supporters with wife Usha Vance and family at an election watch party at the Renaissance Hotel on November 8, 2022 in Columbus, Ohio. (Andrew Spear/Getty Images)

More than 210 Republicans who cast doubt on President Joe Biden's 2020 victory won congressional seats and races for governor, secretary of state, and attorney general on Tuesday night, underscoring the extent to which right-wing election denialism has become entrenched in the GOP and threatens to remain a noxious force in U.S. politics for the foreseeable future.

In a recent investigation of Republican candidates' statements,The New York Times identified more than 370 so-called "election skeptics" who sowed doubt in some way about the 2020 contest. According to the newspaper's Wednesday morning analysis, over half of them have won their midterm campaigns so far. It may take days or weeks for the final results to be tallied.

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