US midterms and the ‘election deniers’ threatening democracy

WASHINGTON, 24 October 2022, (TON): From the Pacific coast to the eastern seaboard, election denialism has seeped from US state capitols into village halls, bars and living rooms, sickening the US body politic and threatening democracy itself.
Two weeks ahead of the midterm election, Republicans up and down the ballot are embracing defeated president Donald Trump’s false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen and that voter fraud is rife.
The Washington-based Brookings Institution has identified 249 of these so-called “election deniers” all Republicans in the 567 races for the House, Senate and key statewide offices.
Mark Bayer, president of Bayer Strategic Consulting and a former chief of staff in the US Senate, told AFP that US democracy was at its “highest risk of unraveling” since World War II.

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