
Over the Veterans Day weekend, two additional Democratic candidates for secretary of state defeated Republicans who endorsed former President Donald Trump's "Big Lie" that the 2020 presidential contest was stolen, delivering another blow to far-right conspiracy theorists running for top elections posts.
In Arizona, Democrat Adrian Fontes beat his Republican opponent Mark Finchem, a state lawmaker with ties to the Oath Keepers who was at the U.S. Capitol during the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and who said he would not have certified Biden's victory in the state.