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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington

Nevada secretary of state contender pledges to secure Trump victory in 2024

Jim Marchant holds a bullhorn emblazoned with
Jim Marchant, the Republican candidate for secretary of state of Nevada, vowed to try to make Trump president again. Photograph: Ricardo Torres-Cortez/AP

The head of a US coalition of election deniers standing for secretary of state positions in key battleground states has made the most explicit threat yet that they will use their powers, should they win in November, to subvert democracy and force a return of Donald Trump to the White House.

Jim Marchant, who is running in the midterms as the Republican candidate for secretary of state in Nevada, has vowed publicly that he and his fellow coalition members will strive to make Trump president again. Speaking at a Make America Great Again rally in Minden, Nevada, on Saturday night, he repeated the lie that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from Trump.

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