Voters in Idaho, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oregon and Pennsylvania are heading to the polls this week to vote in their states’ primary elections. Here are the Republican candidates running for Congress, as well as state-level positions like secretary of state, who support former President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie.”
It’s a busy week for primaries, with elections in Idaho, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oregon and Pennsylvania. FiveThirtyEight and ABC News have been tracking candidates running for Congress and state-level positions like governor, secretary of state and attorney general who have questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election. This is despite the fact that former President Donald Trump’s claims that the election was fraudulent have been repeatedly proven false. Here are some of the candidates in today’s primaries who support Trump’s “Big Lie” — they’ve all said that Trump’s loss or the 2020 election was illegitimate, or took legal action to overturn its results, or both.
Let’s start in North Carolina, where an open Senate seat has attracted 14 candidates in the Republican primary. That includes some ardent Big Lie supporters like Drew Bulecza. He’s a bit of a fringe candidate, but when he was asked whether he believed the 2020 election was legitimate, he replied by posting a meme to his Facebook profile claiming Biden was “installed like a toilet.” The current frontrunner in this race is Rep. Ted Budd, who earned one of Trump’s earliest endorsements. He...
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