These 19 election deniers and vote suppressors are on the ballot in the midterms. We should be worried

By Matt Cohen
June 19, 2026

From Maine down to Texas, and from North Carolina out to Arizona — hundreds of Republican election deniers and vote suppressors will be on the ballot this fall.

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A tally by the pro-democracy group States United Action found that there are 132 election deniers across 35 states running for statewide or federal office this year.

Of those, Democracy Docket has identified 19 candidates who are currently on the ballot — in the general election and in their state’s primaries — to pay especially close attention to. Some are running for state-level positions that play a major role in the vote-counting and certification process in key swing states. Others are outspoken election deniers running in House and Senate races that could determine control of Congress — and who could be well-placed to spread lies about illegal voting during the fraught post-election period.

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Michael Whatley
North Carolina, U.S. Senate

Whatley, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, is the Republican nominee facing off against former Gov. Roy Cooper (D) in a race that Democrats see as one of their best chances of flipping a Senate seat. But the race isn’t just to flip a seat; it’s to keep an avowed election denier out of the Senate.

Whatley, a former Republican National Committee chair, has falsely claimed that “massive fraud” took place in Democratic-leaning cities in the 2020 presidential election and supported objections to the Electoral College vote that confirmed Joe Biden’s victory. He later argued that President Donald Trump played no role in the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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