A slate of conspiracy theorists seeking to take over key US election posts lost races in battleground states, after months of warnings from election experts and Democrats that their ascension could threaten American democracy itself.
The final nail in the coffin arrived on Saturday in Nevada, where Republican Jim Marchant, who helped organize candidates under the "America First" banner, lost his bid to become the state's top election official to Democrat Cisco Aguilar, Edison Research projected.
But the "red wave" that Republicans had expected to give them wide congressional majorities and position them to sway the outcome of the 2024 White House race, did not materialize. In swing states Arizona, Nevada and Michigan, "America First" candidates were nominated for secretary of state, the position that oversees elections. Their rise drew an unusual level of attention and spending to the races, which have historically been political afterthoughts compared with the pitched battles for Congress and governorships.
Election deniers consistently ran behind other Republican statewide candidates, according to New York University's Brennan Center for Justice. Ahead of the midterms, a Washington Post analysis found more than half of Republican nominees for House, Senate and key statewide positions had questioned the 2020 outcome.
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