![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/kari-lake-defeat-did-democracy-win-in-us-midterms/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/115588640_gettyimages-1229620832-1.jpg&description=Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Supporters of the president hold a post-election 'Stop The Steal' protest in AtlantaAlmost every Republican candidate who was standing for a position that would have given them oversight of the 2024 elections and who were also "election deniers" - people who repeat the lie that the 2020 election was corrupt or stolen - have lost their races.These include candidates who were running for secretary of state and governor positions in battleground states like Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. Kari Lake, who was running for governor of Arizona, was the last one to fall as her election was called for her Democratic opponent Katie Hobbs. Some election deniers have been elected, especially to Congress - like Marjorie Taylor Greene in the House Of Representatives and JD Vance in the Senate. A BBC analysis found that out of 178 candidates for Congress or governor who "fully and publicly" denied that the 2020 election was legitimate, a majority - 126 have won - while 48 have lost. A few are still too close to call.But overall these elections produced a resounding repudiation of Trump-backed candidates who deny the legitimacy of the last presidential election.It appears voters specifically rejected these candidates rather than their party. Plenty of Republican candidates who accept the 2020 result were elected. In Georgia, Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger - who resisted pressure from Donald Trump to overturn the result in their state - were easily re-elected as governor and secretary of state. They got hundreds of thousands more votes than the Republican Senate candidate in Georgia, the election denier Herschel Walker, who faces a run-off election next month after failing to secure over 50% of the votes. President Biden was criticised from within his party for making democracy a central issue in this campaign. Pundits reckoned that, faced with the rising cost of living voters, would not prioritise their democratic fr){kind=link}
Almost every Republican candidate who was standing for a position that would have given them oversight of the 2024 elections and who were also “election deniers” – people who repeat the lie that the 2020 election was corrupt or stolen – have lost their races.
These include candidates who were running for secretary of state and governor positions in battleground states like Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. Kari Lake, who was running for governor of Arizona, was the last one to fall as her election was called for her Democratic opponent Katie Hobbs.
Some election deniers have been elected, especially to Congress – like Marjorie Taylor Greene in the House Of Representatives and JD Vance in the Senate. A BBC analysis found that out of 178 candidates for Congress or governor who “fully and publicly” denied that the 2020 election was legitimate, a majority – 126 have won – while 48 have lost. A few are still too close to call.
But overall these elections produced a resounding repudiation of Trump-backed candidates who deny the legitimacy of the last presidential election.
It appears voters specifically rejected these candidates rather than their party. Plenty of Republican candidates who accept the 2020 result were elected. In Georgia, Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger – who resisted pressure from Donald Trump to overturn the result in their state – were easily re-elected as governor and secretary of state.