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The following individuals and groups were involved in pushing for an audit of the 2020 presidential election results in Michigan.
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Matthew DePerno, a right-wing lawyer based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, won the 2022 GOP primary for attorney general in Michigan and ran in the general election with Trump’s endorsement but lost to Democratic incumbent Dana Nessel.
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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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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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About On several occasions after the 2020 presidential election, Trump allies breached equipment used at polling locations around the country in search of evidence to support voting fraud conspiracy theories. The breaches have included unauthorized people stealing voting system passwords and posting them online, taking and distributing confidential voting software, and inspecting ballot-counting machines. These … 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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About The Family Research Council (FRC), a Christian Right activist organization in Washington, D.C., was founded in 1983 by a group of Christian evangelists, including James Dobson (who also founded Focus on the Family). FRC opposes and lobbies against access to pornography, embryonic stem-cell research, abortion, divorce, and LGBTQ rights (such as anti-discrimination laws, same-sex … Read more
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About Katherine Friess, an attorney and former lobbyist, was part of Trump’s team based at the Willard Hotel prior to the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to The Washington Post. Earlier, she also played a role in “laying the groundwork” for the purported “forensic report” claiming to prove that Dominion Voting Systems in Antrim County, Michigan … Read more