For democracy advocates, the good news is that a lot of election-denying secretary of state candidates lost. The bad news is, there were other contests. (via MaddowBlog)
In Arizona, Republican Mark Finchem positioned himself as one of the cycle’s, and as of this moment, his secretary of state race hasn’t been called. He is, however, currently trailing his Democratic opponent by roughly five points, though there are still a lot of ballots to be counted.
As for Marchant’s candidacy in the Silver State, he currently has a narrow lead over his Democratic rival, though we may not get the results of the race until the weekend., I remain mindful of the fact that for many voters, secretary of state — at the state level, not the cabinet secretary who leads the U.S. State Department — is probably a fairly obscure office.
But in the wake of Jan. 6, the Republican Party’s brazen lies and conspiracy theories, and Trump’s fixation on installing election-denying allies in key positions, secretaries of state — and this year’s campaigns to elect secretaries of state — have taken on
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