Nearly 300 election deniers — people who do not accept the fact that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election or who falsely believed there was foul play or fraud in the election system — were on ballots across the country. Some of them lost, many won and in several key states, the results are not yet in.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd talks with Joanna Lydgate, president of the non-profit States United Democracy Center, which has been tracking these election deniers seeking to hold office and have the power to run future elections.
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