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In the wake of official recounts and certification of the results by the secretary of state, the following individuals and groups refused to accept the outcome and instead pushed for a “forensic audit” of all ballots cast in Maricopa County, the state’s largest.
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Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2011, representing Arizona’s highly conservative 4th Congressional District. In 2022, after redistricting, he ran for reelection in the 9th Congressional District with Trump’s endorsement and won.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is a right-wing extremist who was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020, serving Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. She ran for her second term in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and won in her solidly Republican district.
Greene is a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus.
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About InfoWars is a right-wing extremist, fake news and conspiracy-promoting media group founded by Alex Jones in 1999. Its website, radio show, video content, and related media are produced in Austin, Texas and operated under Free Speech Systems LLC, a Texas company that filed for bankruptcy on July 29, 2022. In the past two decades, … Read more
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Burt Jones is a former Republican state senator (2013–23) in Georgia who helped spread the Big Lie and fraudulently appoint “fake electors.”
In 2022, he won election as lieutenant governor with Trump’s endorsement and is already presumed to be a likely 2026 candidate for governor.
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Bernard Kerik was the police commissioner of New York City during the 9/11 attacks and is a staunch ally of Rudy Giuliani, who was mayor at the time. After the 2020 presidential election, he got involved with helping Giuliani and Trump overturn the results, serving as lead investigator for the legal team.
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Doug Mastriano is a far-right state senator who won the May 2022 Republican primary for governor of Pennsylvania and ran with Trump’s endorsement, but ultimately lost to Democrat Josh Shaprio in November. Since the 2020 presidential election, he has insisted that the election was stolen and is so extreme in his views that Axios has called him “Trumpier than Trump.”
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A right-wing lawyer and activist, Cleta Mitchell is the secretary of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and a senior legal fellow at the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), where she chairs its Election Integrity Network (EIN).
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About One America News Network (OANN, also known as OAN) is a right-wing, pro-Trump cable channel founded in 2013 by Robert Herring, CEO of Herring Networks (which also includes the luxury goods channel, A Wealth of Entertainment or AWE). According to a 2021 Reuters investigation, AT&T was behind the birth of OAN, with 90% of … Read more
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Sidney Powell is a far-right, Dallas-based attorney and former federal prosecutor who has been associated with QAnon and readily promotes conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.
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Dan Scavino has worked for Trump since he was hand-picked to be his caddy at the age of 16. As a member of the administration, he served as deputy chief of staff for communications from 2019–21 and as deputy chief for social media from 2017–21.