How election-denying GOP governors could tilt the 2024 presidential election
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How election-denying GOP governors could tilt the 2024 presidential election

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Republican candidates who claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump have been nominated for governor in four critical swing states, raising concerns that if elected they could try to sway election results in 2024 and beyond. The current proposal, introduced by a bipartisan group of senators, requires that at least six days before the Electoral College meets, each governor must submit a “certificate of ascertainment” identifying their state’s presidential electors, and that document would be “conclusive.” The provision is included to prevent states from submitting more than one slate of electors, as seven states did in 2020 when Trump supporters submitted fake electors. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, a Democrat, and Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican, who Here are the five GOP candidates for governor who have said they would not have certified Biden as the winner of the 2020 election or who say the 2020 election was rigged: Arizona Kari Lake, a former news anchor, is a staunch supporter of Trump’s baseless claims that he won the 2020 election. He has vowed that his pick for the state’s top election official would require everyone to “re-register” to vote, a requirement that would violate the National Voter Registration Act. And in a November tweet reply to Trump, she wrote: “Steal an election then hide behind calls for unity and leftists lap it up.” In an interview in November 2021, Dixon blamed Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for “not running the election the way she should have” and “in a way that was rife for fraud.” She then said that Benson provided the opportunity for Joe Biden to tilt the election so he could win.

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