Republican Nevada election denier Jim Marchant announced Tuesday that he will run for the U.S. Senate in 2024.
Marchant, who lost to Democratic nominee Cisco Aguilar in the race for Nevada secretary of state in November 2022 by a vote of 49%-47%, held his campaign kickoff at an anti-LGBTQ+ church in Las Vegas with featured speakers that included prominent QAnon conspiracy theorist Michael Flynn and white nationalist Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ).
“We have to encourage principled America-first MAGA candidates to run for office,” the former one-term state legislator told attendees. “That is why I’m announcing today that I am running for United States Senate.”
The seat is currently held by first-term Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen.
Marchant has frequently pushed false claims of election-stealing. His official campaign bio claims, “In 2020 Jim ran for Congress for Nevada’s Congressional District 4 and was a victim of election fraud.” He lost that race to Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford by almost five points, 50.7%-45.8%, and failed to prove actual fraud in a subsequent lawsuit.
In 2022, he was recruited to run for secretary of state, the chief elections officer in most states, by a QAnon influencer who uses the pseudonym Juan O Savin. Marchant told a QAnon conference in October of that year that he had worked with Savin and other QAnon activists to recruit like-minded secretary of state candidates in other states.
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