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Martin Pengelly in New York

How a Trump-backed ‘QAnon whack job’ won with Democratic ‘collusion’

Dan Cox shakes hands with a supporter on primary night in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
Dan Cox shakes hands with a supporter on primary night in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Photograph: Kenneth K Lam/AP

Dan Cox, an extremist pro-Trump Republican, won his party’s nomination for governor in Maryland last week thanks to “collusion between Trump and the national Democrats”, the current Republican governor said.

“I don’t think there’s any chance that [Cox] can win,” Larry Hogan added, speaking to CNN’s State of the Union.

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