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A new report from The Washington Post compiled statements from Republicans currently running for office and determined that more than 230 of them have cast doubt on the 2024 election. Recent opinion polling shows that this conspiratorial rhetoric, along with falsehoods promoted by conservative media outlets like Fox News, is influencing Republican voters.
The Post described the disinformation campaign as a “pervasive effort within the GOP to undermine public trust in the vote ahead of Nov. 5.”
Many of the candidates promoted conspiracies about noncitizen voting, which is extremely rare (0.0001% of votes cast out of 23.5 million votes in the 2016 election, according to a report from the Brennan Center for Justice). House Republicans have pushed related legislation, even though noncitizen voting is already illegal, and it has been a hot topic of conversation on Fox News.
About half of the Republicans promoting election misinformation have referred to the ongoing criminal cases against Donald Trump as evidence of election interference, echoing his frequent protests, according to the Post’s report.
