EA on Radio FM4: When Trumpist Election Deniers Oversee US Elections

Posted by Scott Lucas | Oct 1, 2022 | 0

In Arizona, (L to R) Abraham Hamadeh, Kari Lake, and Blake Masters — Republican candidates for Attorney General, Governor, and Senate — have all disputed the legitimacy of the 2020 US elections (Adriana Zehbrauskas/New York Times)

I joined Austria’s Radio 4 to explain how Trumpist election deniers could soon be overseeing US elections.

I explain the process at state level where supporters of Donald Trump — and his attempt to overturn the 2020 Presidential outcome — could be voted into positions of responsibility such as Secretary of State.

Listen to Discussion from 12:15

You have election deniers who are running for these positions in November. If they win, when we get to the 2024 Presidential election and Trump says, “Overturn this” — well, he’ll be in a better position than he was in 2020.

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Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.