More than a third of Republicans on ballots in November support Donald Trump's false stolen-election claims: report
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- Candidates who deny the 2020 election results will appear on ballots in nearly every state, FiveThirtyEight found.
- Of the 529 Republican nominees running for office, 196 fully denied the 2020 election results, the analysis found.
- Only 72 of the Republicans "fully accepted" the results and 87 "accepted with reservations."
If you're voting in November's midterm elections, chances are you'll have a candidate on the ballot who denies the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election.
An analysis by FiveThirtyEight found that 60% of Americans will have a candidate to choose from this fall who supports former President Donald Trump's lies that the election was stolen.
These candidates will appear on ballots in nearly every state, FiveThirtyEight found. The political website drew the candidates' positions from news reports, debate footage, campaign materials and social media and reached out to all Republican nominees for the House, Senate, governor, secretary of state and attorney general.
Of the 529 Republican nominees running for office, 196 — or 37% — fully denied the 2020 election results. Another 61 candidates raised doubts about potential fraud, which brings the percentage of election deniers and doubters to nearly 49%.
FiveThirtyEight is forecasting that many of these candidates — 118 election deniers and eight doubters — have at least a 95% chance of winning in the House.
Only 72 of the Republicans "fully accepted" the results and 87 fall into the "accepted with reservations" bucket, which means they accept President Joe Biden's victory but said they have concerns about election integrity.
Trump, who is embroiled in a legal battle over classified documents found by the FBI in his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, has focused his attention on endorsing midterm election candidates, many of whom support his false claims about the 2020 election.
Most of the election deniers he endorsed won their primary and will advance to the general election in November, an earlier New York Times analysis found.