David Clements fumed over his ‘woke’ university’s condemnation of the U.S. Capitol insurrection. Now he’s an evangelist for false theories about rigged voting machines, and funded in part by donations from fellow believers.
While Americans prepared to vote in November’s midterm elections, David Clements was finishing up a month-long speaking tour that sealed his reputation as a leading election denier.
In rural Ohio, the former professor told his audience that rigged voting machines had robbed former President Donald Trump of victory in 2020. In Cherokee County, Georgia, a crowd cheered after Clements demanded that local commissioners reject the results of future elections. In Washington, D.C., he spoke at a right-wing rally near the U.S. Capitol while counter-protesters shouted obscenities and called him a fascist.
Clements was back home in New Mexico for the midterm elections. The results dealt a blow to those, like him, who deny Trump lost in 2020. Many major candidates who promoted the former president’s false voter-fraud claims lost races in critical battleground states.
For Clements, however, the midterm losses by Trump-backed Republicans were only further confirmation that they had been robbed by corrupt officials and rigged voting machines. “The war is just getting started,” Clements told his 100,000 Telegram followers on Nov. 16.
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