By Daniel Dale, CNN
The Gateway Pundit, a right-wing website known for peddling conspiracy theories, published another inaccurate article related to the 2020 election on Tuesday — and its false claims were echoed on Twitter by some Republican figures with substantial followings.
The saga began with The Gateway Pundit’s initial headline. It read: “**HUGE BREAKING NEWS** — Wisconsin Assembly Votes to Withdraw Its 10 Electors for Joe Biden in 2020 Election — VIDEO.”
The headline was repeated on Twitter by Kari Lake, a Republican candidate for Arizona governor. Lake — who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has more than 100,000 Twitter followers, and has repeatedly promoted lies about the 2020 election — wrote in her tweet: “Arizona should be next!”
Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward, who has more than 178,000 Twitter followers, then amplified Lake’s tweet and added of Arizona, “We should have been first!”
When The Gateway Pundit updated its article on Tuesday, it changed the headline to make a narrower claim. The revised headline said the “HUGE BREAKING NEWS” was that the Wisconsin assembly had voted to “advance” a lawmaker’s resolution to withdraw the state’s electors.
But the narrower claim was false, too.
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