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The following individuals and groups were involved in pushing for an audit of the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
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Once Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, Dominion became the target of baseless allegations of fraud—charges that it has repeatedly repudiated and challenged in court ever since. In 2023, Fox News paid $787 million to Dominion to settle the defamation lawsuit brought against it, and cases are still pending against other right-wing news outlets such as Newsmax and One American News Network.
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Joe Biden won the state of Arizona in the 2020 presidential election by a narrow margin of approximately 10,000 votes, winning 1,672,143 votes to Trump’s 1,661,686.
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Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election in Michigan with a count of 2,804,040 votes to Trump’s 2,649,852 votes.
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President Biden won the state of Pennsylvania in the 2020 election by a margin of 80,555 votes, winning 3,458,229 votes to Trump’s 3,377,674. However, Trump’s allies quickly began to challenge the results in Pennsylvania, as they had in other swing states carried by Biden.
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About Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin with 1,630,866 votes to Trump’s 1,610,184. As in other swing states, Trump and his allies challenged the Wisconsin results with baseless lawsuits and demands for unnecessary investigations. Wisconsin was the site of possibly the most audits into the 2020 election, with multiple government investigations as … Read more
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Jenna Ellis is a right-wing Christian lawyer who served as a legal adviser to Trump during his final year in office. In October 2023, she admitted to breaking the law in supporting Trump’s false claims of election fraud and struck a plea deal with prosecutors in Georgia.
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Boris Epshteyn is a right-wing attorney and political consultant who was an advisor to Trump’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. In 2017, he became chief political analyst for Sinclair Broadcast Group, which reportedly worked with the 2016 Trump campaign to generate favorable coverage of the candidate.
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Matt Gaetz (R–FL) served Florida’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017–24, when he abruptly resigned shortly after winning reelection and a nomination from Trump to become U.S. attorney general.
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Sixteen Republican residents of Georgia attempted to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election by submitting fake Electoral College documents to Congress as part of the Jan. 6. 2021 certification process.
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About Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is the senior senator from South Carolina, having served in the U.S. Senate since 2003. An attorney prior to running for office, he served as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2019–21. Earlier in his career, he was a judge advocate general in the U.S. Air Force from 1982–88. In … Read more