Republicans who deny the 2020 presidential elections won their own elections Tuesday night, securing nominations for governor, Congress and other offices. And the wins set up a high-takes battle for November, when Democrats are hoping they have a chance to defeat candidates they cast as too extreme to serve in public office.

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Those candidates did well in Arizona, the epicenter of election denialism and where Republicans ordered a months-long, partisan review of the 2020 election that turned up nothing to challenge President Joe Biden's win there.

Grand Canyon State Republicans nominated Blake Masters, a Donald Trump-endorsed candidate, to face off against incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly. Masters has not only accused Democrats of cheating in the 2020 race, but has suggested the 2022 midterms – when he will now be on the ballot – will not be legitimate.

Mark Finchem, a state legislator who sponsored a bill this year to undo the 2020 election results, won the GOP primary for secretary of state, the individual who oversees the state's elections. Finchem, who is a member of the far-right group the Oath Keepers and who was also endorsed by Trump, was present at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, though he says he did not break any laws that day.

Kari Lake, a former TV reporter who built her campaign around false allegations of 2020 election fraud, was leading narrowly in the GOP primary for governor over Karrin Taylor Robson, as of...

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