They Insisted the 2020 Election Was Tainted. Their 2022 Primary Wins? Not So Much.
Mr. Brooks offered a simple answer to why he’s not worried about his race: There’s no fraud in Republican primaries, he said.
“I’m in a Republican primary, and noncitizens don’t normally vote in Republican primaries,” Mr. Brooks said.
Not all Republicans who spread false claims about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election considered their own races to be exempt.
Mr. Perry focused on Philadelphia as a source for fraud in the presidential race and called for additional review.
By the time Mr. Trump lost the 2020 election, he and millions of his supporters were primed to believe false allegations about “ballot harvesting” and machines miscounting in America’s populous cities.