Canadian steelmaker's connection to $1.75M donation for Trump sparks complaint.That's why it's important for the public to know precisely what candidates have said and done as they seek their votes in November, in an election those candidates may not accept.ĭustin Racioppi is the USA TODAY Network's Atlantic Region Government and Politics Editor. But the many experts interviewed by USA TODAY agree that denying the legitimacy of the 2020 election poses a threat to American democracy. Sources included in the main story for this project may have different ways to define an election denier. For that reason, Smucker is labeled an election denier. Ignoring multiple opportunities to publicly acknowledge an established fact is itself a statement, especially from an elected official who understands, or should understand, the weight of their words. But the Network reached his office three times for this project, twice asking whether he believes Joe Biden was duly elected president. He argued that his vote focused on how the commonwealth carried out the election, not necessarily because of widespread voter fraud. Lloyd Smucker was among the commonwealth’s eight Congressmen who voted against certifying its results. And earlier this month she attended a conference in Florida featuring speakers falsely claiming the election was stolen from Trump, according to the Associated Press. She’s also endorsed by America First SOS Coalition, which promotes secretary of state candidates who question the 2020 results. She told the Network that “Joe Biden is our president,” but on her social media accounts she’s called the 2020 election a “coup” and aired theories about election rigging.
She is included because she says two things at the same time. Then there is Audrey Trujillo, the nominee for secretary of state in New Mexico. The Network reached his campaign to see if he wanted to clarify his position and it did not respond. However, he made a number of false claims before running, including tweeting in December 2020 “there is no doubt there is serious election fraud” and urging Trump “to get to the bottom of who stole this election” on Jan. Supreme Court to overturn the results in four states.īut since then Carter has also repeatedly acknowledged that Joe Biden is the president and said, “I don’t believe there was voter fraud.” Because of that public reversal, Carter is not included as an election denier.Īnother candidate in Georgia, Herschel Walker, has not actively campaigned on election denial since launching his bid for Senate. He not only voted against certifying the 2020 results but also signed on to the Texas legal brief asking the U.S. Some candidates complicated the decision of whether to include them. Hasen, an author and law professor at UCLA Law School Adav Noti, senior vice president and legal director of the Campaign Legal Center and Ian Vandewalker, senior counsel in the Brennan Center’s Elections & Government Program. Bush’s campaign in the 2000 Florida recount Richard L.
The Network came to this definition after interviewing some of the country’s most respected experts of election law: Ben Ginsberg, co-chair of the Election Official Legal Defense Network and a longtime Republican election lawyer who represented George W. Or still publicly question the results of the 2020 election, nearly two years after it has been certified.Have publicly said the 2020 election was “rigged,” “stolen,” marred by voter fraud or otherwise illegitimate - and have not recanted their false claim.Were one of the 147 members of Congress who voted against certifying the election results or said they would have if they were in office.In these seven states, a candidate is included as an election denier if they: The USA TODAY Network focused on seven key states that sent false electors saying Trump won the 2020 election – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Which is why it’s important to define it for the purposes of this USA TODAY package detailing candidates running this year we’ve labeled “election deniers.” The term election denier is a loaded one, but the definition isn't always clear.
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