Democrat Cisco Aguilar will be Nevada’s next secretary of state. He beat Republican Jim Marchant, the leader of a group of Trump supporters who claim the 2020 election was stolen from the former president.
Democrat Cisco Aguilar will be Nevada’s next secretary of state, beating Republican Jim Marchant, the leader of a group of Donald Trump supporters who claim the 2020 election was stolen from the former president.
Marchant, a former state lawmaker endorsed by Trump, is the founder of the America First Secretary of State Coalition, which advocates for more restrictive ballot access laws in their states. In Nevada, Marchant has been a proponent of hand counting ballots in the state, spreading conspiracy theories that voting machines have flipped votes. Many election experts and officials say hand counting is bothAguilar, an attorney and first-time candidate, cast himself as a bulwark against Marchant, who had intimated that he would try to make it easier for Trump to win his state in a comeback run for president.
“When my coalition of secretary of state candidates around the country get elected, we’re going to fix the whole country and President Trump is going to be president again in 2024,” Marchant said at a Trump-hosted rally in Nevada in early October. “The secretary of state’s job is to protect democracy by keeping our elections fair and transparent,” Aguilar said in hisDemocrats had rushed resources into the state to back up Aguilar. No Republican outside group aired TV ads on behalf of Marchant in the general election, according to data from the ad tracking firm AdImpact, while Democratic groups and Aguilar’s campaign spent millions trying to boost him.We still don't know who will control Congress next year. Here are the latest results.
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