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Midterms: Why QAnon conspirators are now essential for Republicans

2022-11-04T19:13:17.871Z


DECRYPTION - Many pro-Trump candidates are supported by this conspiratorial movement. Some have a good chance of being elected to Congress on November 8.


A crazy and dangerous influence that the Republicans take advantage of.

The QAnon movement, born on online forums and whose pro-Trump and anti-elite conspiracy theories have been exported internationally, has become so influential that it could largely invest the American Congress during the midterms.

About twenty Republican candidates who have publicly shown an interest in this mysterious community could be elected senator or representative of the American people on November 8, according to a survey by the MediaMatters association.

Yet they only represent a fraction of the QAnon-linked aspirants who wished to run, before being beaten in the Republican primaries.

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““Q” opened my mind”

Among the successful candidates was Jo Rae Perkins, a postulant in Oregon.

In a video interview broadcast in 2020, this unfortunate candidate in the last elections compared her faith in Jesus Christ to that in “

Q

”, the mysterious Internet user who founded, through thousands of publications…

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Source: lefigaro

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