Embracing election conspiracy theories was a political albatross for Republicans in states that weren’t completely red last year. Now, some of those losing candidates are vying for GOP state party chair positions.
, has marginalized the state party, creating a parallel structure to raise money and turn out voters.“It used to be adjacent to public service, to be the state party chair, and now it’s something where you get to dunk on Democrats on Twitter,” said Robert Jones, a Republican pollster in Idaho.
“Maybe the Karamos and the Browns and the Moons will implode,” Eisen said. “There is a kind of incompetence that goes with this ideology. But it’s a concerning trend given the power these state parties have.” In Colorado, many Republican strategists say they are prepared for Peters or another election denier to win the party chair position next month.
The candidates for party chair claim the Colorado GOP has been too timid and needs to be more outspoken and conservative — a risky bid in a state that has been rapidly moving to the left. As part of that, they seek to restrict the primary to only registered Republicans, shutting out voters not affiliated with any party who have been eligible to participate. That would require overturning a voter-approved ballot measure, which activists failed to do in a lawsuit last year.
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Failing at polls, election deniers focus on state GOP postsIn a basement event space in the Denver suburb of Parker, Tina Peters surveyed a crowd of Colorado Republicans last week and made an unusual pitch for why she should become chair of their beleaguered party: “There’s no way a jury of 12 people is going to put me in prison.”
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Failing at polls, election deniers focus on state GOP postsTina Peters has become part of a wave of election deniers who, unable to succeed at the polls, have targeted the one post — state party chair — that depends entirely on those hardest-core Republicans.
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Failing at polls, election deniers focus on state GOP postsElection deniers who lost at the polls last year have targeted the political post that depends on hard-core Republican voters: state party chair.
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Failing at polls, election deniers focus on state GOP postsElection deniers who were unable to succeed at the polls last year have targeted the one political post that depends entirely on the most hard-core of Republican voters — state party chair.
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