The former president's escalating embrace of the QAnon conspiracy theory runs counter to the actual success of the candidates who have espoused it.
In Michigan, Trump-endorsed secretary of state candidate Kristina Karamo, who was scheduled to speak at a QAnon-affiliated conference in Las Vegas last year, boasts significant unfavorable ratings and low recognition in state polling with about six weeks until the election.
In Maryland, Trump-backed Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox, who was a guest speaker at an April QAnon conference alongside Mastriano, trails Democrat Wes Moore by more than 20 points in the polls, and has been denounced by Republican Governor Larry Hogan as a"QAnon conspiracy theorist" in a letter to theOf the 36 congressional candidates liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America said were aligned with QAnon entering this year's election cycle, 11 won their...
Others are favored to win their races. In the battleground state of Nevada, Trump-backed secretary of state candidate Jim Marchant—who has regularly echoed QAnon rhetoric, according to Media Matters—was virtually tied with Democratic opponent Cisco Aguilar in a Reno Gazette Journal/Suffolk University poll conducted this summer.
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