At least 25 Republican nominees running for the Virginia General Assembly this year have spread election fraud conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to new research by the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.
Voting is already underway in the elections to select all 100 members of the Virginia House of Delegates and all 40 Virginia senators.
With a narrow majority in the House, Republicans have spent the past two years trying to ban ballot drop boxes, reduce opportunities for early voting, eliminate the option for voters to automatically receive a mail-in ballot, and purge the voter rolls. Democrats have used their slim majority in the Senate to block all of those bills.
Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is leading a multimillion-dollar campaign, bankrolled extensively by out-of-state billionaire Republican megadonors, in hopes of winning full control of the Legislature.
But many of the candidates Youngkin’s party nominated are election deniers, with some even questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential result in Virginia. President Joe Biden defeated then-President Donald Trump in the commonwealth by more than 10 points, 54.4%-44.2%.
Three of the candidates traveled to Washington, D.C., for the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the rioting by supporters of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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