Tina 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.
, 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.” Last wek, on the podcast of Trump adviser Steve Bannon last week, Karamo said Michigan was “ground zero for the globalist takeover of the United States of America.”
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.
Peters, however, reveled in her national profile. She noted that she had just started a podcast that had 60,000 downloads on its first day and that she raised $250,000 to fund a recount in three days after the 2022 primary —a recount that confirmed her loss.
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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.” Peters was referring to her upcoming trial on seven felony charges related to her role in allegedly accessing confidential voting machine data while she was clerk in western Colorado's Mesa County. The incident made her a hero to election conspiracy theorists but unpopular with all but her party's hardest-core voters.
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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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Kevin McCarthy Gave Tucker Carlson the Jan. 6 Security Footage. He’s Going to Wish He Hadn’t.If McCarthy wants to let Carlson further entrench GOP politics in the electoral cul-de-sac of Jan. 6 revisionism, Democrats won’t stop them.
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Trump works state-by-state to improve chances at Republican conventionIn an early start, Donald Trump’s team invited state party officials to Mar-a-Lago, arranged private meet-and-greets, endorsed some state officials and met with senior GOP officials in Washington to discuss how the delegate selection process will unfold.
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State Representative Kris Jordan, Delaware County Republican, dies at 46State Senator Andy Brenner confirmed to cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer that Jordan died of natural causes at home. His three children, who are all under the age of 10, were not at the home at the time of his death, Brenner added.
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