Numerous Republican candidates running in 2022 primaries across the country continue to baselessly cast doubt on the integrity of the 2020 election.
Some of these candidates are just plain lying that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump or was rife with massive fraud. Others are professing to be merely asking questions. Still others are walking an evasive tightrope, trying to avoid angering Trump and his devotees while also not saying anything explicitly inaccurate.
CNN has previously reported on various Republican candidates who are promoting election lies. Here's a non-comprehensive roundup of how candidates in seven states have promoted these lies in February alone.
The same day earlier this month that Katie Arrington launched her Trump-endorsed campaign for a South Carolina congressional seat, she told The State newspaper, "I think Trump won the 2020 election." Arrington cited "too many voting irregularities" -- there is no evidence of any irregularities substantial enough to have changed the outcome in any state -- and criticized "people like Nancy Mace," the Republican incumbent she is challenging, for voting to certify President Joe Biden's victory.
Arrington, who lost a 2018 race for this seat after ousting another Republican incumbent in the primary, even assigned partial blame to Mace and her fellow members of Congress for the January 6, 2021,...
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