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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Peter Stone in Washington

The ‘election-denier trifecta’: alarm over Trumpists’ efforts to win key posts

Donald Trump at a rally with Kari Lake in Mesa, Arizona earlier this month. Lake refused to say whether she would accept the result of the election if she lost.
Donald Trump at a rally with Kari Lake in Mesa, Arizona earlier this month. Lake refused to say whether she would accept the result of the election if she lost. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

Call it Donald Trump’s election denier trifecta on this year’s ballot.

In Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania, where Joe Biden beat then president Trump in 2020, several Republican candidates who have loudly echoed Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen are trying to win jobs as secretary of state, attorney general or governor in November.

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