Republicans Who’ve Pushed The Big Lie Are Raking in Massive Amounts of Money for Secretary of State Races

Republicans who’ve backed erstwhile President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020 wide predetermination was stolen are raking successful monolithic amounts of wealth for Secretary of State races crossed the nation, a further denotation of their efforts to wield partisan power implicit elections.

“Secretary of authorities candidates successful 3 battleground states — Georgia, Michigan and Minnesota — person collectively raised 2.5 times much than candidates had astatine a comparable constituent successful 2014 oregon 2018 predetermination cycles,” The Huffington Post reported, citing a caller analysis from the Brennan Center for Justice, which volition way run spending successful these and different races.

The Secretary of State–in astir states–is the state’s main predetermination official, liable for overseeing voting and the counting of votes, arsenic good arsenic the certification of predetermination results. They besides support elector rolls, elector registration processes, and person the authorization to probe violations of predetermination law.

“Increasingly, predetermination denial is simply a highly disposable contented successful races for predetermination medication positions,” the Brennan Center notes. “Indeed, arsenic acold arsenic we are aware, this is the archetypal clip successful the modern epoch that questions astir the legitimacy of elections person played specified a salient relation successful contests for predetermination officials.”

Election integrity (or deficiency thereof) has continued to predominate conversations among Republicans, who person alleged that Democrats’ efforts to enactment up voting rights magnitude to small much than a partisan powerfulness grab. Through it all, erstwhile President Trump has remained an astir omnipresent figure. Earlier this week, Trump attacked Senator Mike Rounds, a South Dakota Republican, aft Rounds rejected his lies astir the 2020 wide election.

There is nary grounds of wide predetermination fraud and Trump’s ain information agencies affirmed this successful 2020 adjacent arsenic helium continued to assertion fraud had been liable for his predetermination loss.

A statement from the national Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), portion of a associated connection from the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees, revealed the agencies recovered “no grounds that immoderate voting strategy deleted oregon mislaid votes, changed votes, oregon was successful immoderate mode compromised.” The connection went connected to notation to the 2020 general election as “the astir unafraid successful American history.”