The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host sounded the alarm on the 100+ GOP primary winners backing Trump’s fake election-fraud claims—including a number of wacky possible secretaries of state.
to the ongoing Jan. 6 committee hearings—specifically the testimony of John Eastman, Trump’s legal advisor at the time of the insurrection.
“Eastman was the one who devised the theory that Mike Pence could single-handedly negate the election results,” explained Oliver, adding, “The idea that a single person could decide the presidency is completely against the ideals of this country, which is why the Constitution starts with ‘We the people’ and not ‘Mike.’”
The HBO host proceeded to note that over 100 GOP primary winners in the midterm elections have backed Trump’s false election-fraud claims—most troubling of these are the secretaries of state, who may be in the position to influence the next presidential election., the Republican nominee for secretary of state in Nevada, is a wacko conspiracy theorist who believes “the people of Nevada have not elected anybody since 2006—they’ve been installed by the deep state cabal” .
When Marchant was pressed about who exactly was out there stealing elections, he answered, “I don’t know, actually. I think it’s a global thing. The people in power want to maintain their power.” As Oliver pointed out, Marchant is one of a number of candidates who are part of The America First Secretary of State Coalition—a group of “stop the steal” Republican conspiracy theorists who are out to seize control of future elections. This gang of reality-averse individuals includes Audrey Trujillo of New Mexico, a fan of
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