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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue May 14, 2024, 01:32 PM May 2024

West Virginia voters must pick from GOP candidates who still dispute 2020 outcome

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — When West Virginia Republicans vote in Tuesday’s primary, they will have a hard time finding a major candidate on the ballot in any statewide race who openly acknowledges that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

Embracing or skirting the line on election denialism has become an unspoken checkoff among Republicans running for governor and Congress in one of the states most loyal to former President Donald Trump. What is spoken — almost constantly — is praise for the party’s presumptive White House nominee from a slate of candidates that includes a convicted Jan. 6 insurrectionist as well as the sons of two GOP members of West Virginia’s congressional delegation.

Glenn Elliott, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for an open Senate seat, said denying the election outcome was a “purity test” for West Virginia Republicans.

“You’re either with the leader of the party on everything, or you’re kicked out. You’re not a Republican anymore, you’re a ‘RINO,’” he said, using the acronym for “Republicans In Name Only.” “That’s not a party — that’s a cult.”

https://apnews.com/article/west-virginia-republican-primary-election-deniers-ad0395542d4d5ef2b8ad5bcdec5d8495

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West Virginia voters must pick from GOP candidates who still dispute 2020 outcome (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2024 OP
Thank god the primary is over, ad after ad, every one election deniers, wall builders, WV doc03 May 2024 #1

doc03

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1. Thank god the primary is over, ad after ad, every one election deniers, wall builders, WV
Tue May 14, 2024, 03:21 PM
May 2024

conservative values and Trump fluffers. After today none of them even have to run an ad. Same
with every local position on my local ballot in Ohio no opposition in the general election.

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