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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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Kristina Karamo is a Michigan-based college professor, right-wing politician, activist, and pundit. In 2022, she ran for secretary of state in Michigan with Trump’s endorsement—and largely based her campaign on a call for more investigations of alleged election fraud—but lost by 14 points.
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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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Sixteen Republican residents of Michigan 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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One America News Network (OANN, also known as OAN) is a right-wing, pro-Trump cable channel founded in 2013. During and after the 2020 presidential election, it repeatedly spread lies and conspiracy theories in support of Trump’s Big Lie.
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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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Donald Trump is a businessman who served one term as president of the U.S., holding office from Jan. 20, 2017–Jan. 20, 2021. He was the first president in U.S. history with no prior experience in government or the military, and by the end of his term in office, he also became the first president to be impeached twice.
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About Phil Waldron is a retired colonel and Texas bar owner. According to the 2022 PBS documentary Plot to Overturn the Election, Waldron is the “public face” of the Dallas-based company Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG), which supported attorney Matthew DePerno’s lawsuit against and intimidation of election officials in Antrim County, Michigan. He became deeply … Read more
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About Lin Wood is a conspiracy theorist and defamation lawyer who has run an often controversial practice in Atlanta, Georgia since 1983. In 2020, he joined Trump’s efforts to overturn the presidential election, filing a lawsuit challenging the election outcomes in Georgia and Michigan. In addition to his legal efforts, Wood used his social media … Read more