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Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican businesswoman, won in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, the AP news agency reports. His Democratic opponent withdrew from the September elections.
The future congresswoman has come in for harsh criticism for making racist statements and for supporting QAnon, a reality-based conspiracy theory that claims Donald Trump is secretly fighting a satanic loner of child-abusing Democrats, billionaires and celebrities. .
The FBI has identified the QAnon movement as a potential terrorist threat. QAnon has repeatedly inspired violent acts in the United States.
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Greene ran against John Cowan, a conservative Trump supporter and outspoken opponent of abortion, in the August primary. Republican officials had initially condemned Greene after she made anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic and racist statements.
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The videos accessed by the Politico news site showed Greene arguing that Muslims should have been excluded from the US government. He also compared the Black Lives Matter movement to the Ku Klux Klan, as well as repeating anti-Semitic lies about billionaire George Soros.
However, Greene’s campaign was supported by groups affiliated with Mark Meadows, the White House Chief of Staff, the leader of the conservative think tank Herritage Foundation, and many Republican mega-donors.
Following the victory in the primary election, Republican representatives have largely supported Greene. She has been repeatedly praised by President Trump, who has repeatedly refused to condemn QAnon.
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Misinformation and QAnon support
Greene was not the only Republican candidate to support QAnon’s candidacy this year.
Angela Stanton King, who has been a Trump supporter in the fight for black voters on Twitter, has also admitted that she believed in the conspiracy theory, even though she did not support it.
He is expected to lose the congressional elections for which he has fought.
Media Matter, which has tracked candidate misinformation, found that there were 27 candidates on the ballot who this month supported QAnon’s content.
Translated and edited by the editorial staff / ABC News / © Guardian News & Media Limited
