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The following individuals and groups were involved in pushing for an audit of the 2020 presidential election results in Pennsylvania.
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Dan Cox is a far-right politician who represented the fourth district in the Maryland House of Delegates from January 2019–January 2023. A gubernatorial candidate in 2022, he won the Republican primary after receiving Trump’s endorsement but lost the general election in November.
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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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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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Mark Finchem (R) is a far-right member of the Arizona House of Representatives who maintains ties to multiple extremist and white nationalist groups. A member of the Oath Keepers militia group himself, he has also vocally supported the QAnon cult and conspiracy theories.
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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.”