He is 6 points behind his Democratic opponent right now.Īnd so the open question will be, in addition to, obviously, you know, how it all shakes out electorally, is if indeed Finchem loses - it appears he will - will he concede? He's already kind of seeded the possibility of not doing so by talking about the Marxists who are trying to deny him victory, by seeing fraud everywhere where there isn't any. The one that I'm in particular interested in is Mark Finchem, who's running for secretary of state - has been - in Arizona, has been a very vociferous 2020 election denier, was at the Capitol on January the 6. But it's clear that Trumpism was not the resounding victory that the former president and others of his stripe had hoped for. And it's very early to be saying this right now, Steve. INSKEEP: How did some of the election-denying figures that you follow fare last night?ĭRAPER: Well, in particular, I've been interested in following the races in Arizona, where a completely Trumpy slate ran for statewide office, all of them endorsed by the former president. So what do the election results say about them? New York Times Magazine contributing writer Robert Draper looks at this in his new book, 'Weapons Of Mass Delusion: When The Republican Party Lost Its Mind.' Mr. QAnon figures and conspiracy theorists also took prominent roles as part of the Republican coalition. Dozens of judges and thousands of election officials from both parties affirmed Donald Trump's defeat in 2020, but some candidates this year ran on alternative facts. Numerous Republican candidates in this year's election rejected the results of the last one.

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