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A Trump-backed election denier running for governor in Maryland has won the Republican primary election.
In endorsing Cox,Donald Trumppraised him while denouncing Shulz as well as Hogan, who’s been an outspoken critic of the former president.
Trump also applauded Cox for fighting “against the Rigged Presidential Election.”
While there is no evidence that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, there are numerous examples of Cox supporting Trump’s false claims.
Cox attended the rally on Jan. 6, 2021, in support of Trump’s efforts to preventJoe Bidenfrom becoming president and,according toThe New York Times, chartered busses from his home county to Washington for the event.
As violence unfolded at the U.S. Capitol and some rioters chanted, “Hang Mike Pence,” Cox tweeted, “Pence is a traitor.”
He laterapologized in a letterto the leaders of the Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics.
“At no time was I calling his action ‘treason’ or ‘sedition’ which are legal terms of art,” Cox wrote,according toThe Washington Post, which obtained a copy of the letter. “I intended the verbiage to convey a betrayal of us his voters and a deep disappointment.”
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At a fundraiser in December, Cox said Trump was “the only president that I recognize right now” and suggested that Biden had been “installed” in the White House, according to theTimes.
He also previously called on the former president to “seize federal vote machines in states where fraud was overwhelmingly rampant” during the 2020 election, theTimesreports.
If elected in November, Cox has promised to conduct a “forensic audit” of the 2020 election.
First, though, he’ll have to beat the Democratic nominee.Wes Moore currently leadsamong the Democrats with 36.7 percent of the vote, though the election had not been called as of Wednesday morning.
Shulz predicted that Cox will lose to the Democratic nominee, theTimesreports. “My Republican Party is the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and John McCain,” she said. “And that is exactly the party that I will continue to fight for.”
“The only thing that was missing,” Mayer said, “was Jim Jones and a cup of Kool-Aid.”
source: people.com
