Her rival, a neurosurgeon, was just as conservative and pro-Trump as Ms. Greene, however, did not share her belief in QAnon, mocking it as an “embarrassment.” He became throne, losing by nearly 16 points and clearing a path to Congress for Mrs. Greene, who is close enough to win a House seat representing the deeply conservative district.
A few other QAnon candidates are likely to win seats in Congress. But at least two have succeeded in defeating non-QAnon-believing Republicans in competitive primaries: Lauren Boebert, a Candidate in the Colorado House who approved comments on QAnon, defeated a five-term Republican commitment in a primary in June, although she is likely to lose in the general election. Jo Rae Perkins, a candidate for the Republican Senate in Oregon, declared in May, “I stand with Q and the team.” The following month, she posted a video in which she took what has become known as an oath for QAnon digital soldiers.
But far more than any candidate for Congress, it is Mr. Trump and his campaign surrogates who are normalizing QAnon in the Republican Party.
Language, images and ideas drawn from QAnon are now a common feature of campaign messages. No voter, it seems, is too extreme to be ignored, as Eric Trump, the president’s son, demonstrated in June ahead of a rally in Tulsa, Okla.
On Instagram, he posted and later deleted an image with an American flag with black text text that read, “Who is ready for the Trump Rally tonight?” Behind the words, bold but clear, sat a large letter “Q.”
And just in case the message wasn’t clear enough, the bottom of the flag ran a popular QAnon hashtag, # WWG1WGA, which stands for “Where We Go One, We Go All.” The post was later deleted.
Ben Decker and Katie Rogers contributed reporting.
