
Some native GOP leaders fan the flames of base with conspiracies
By way of Garance Burke, Martha Mendoza, Juliet Linderman and Larry Fenn | Related Press
A faction of native, county and state Republican officers is pushing lies, incorrect information and conspiracy theories that echo those who helped encourage the violent U.S. Capitol siege, on-line messaging this is spreading briefly thru GOP ranks fueled by way of algorithms that spice up excessive content material.
The Related Press reviewed private and non-private social media accounts of just about 1,000 federal, state, and native elected and appointed Republican officers national, lots of whom have voiced strengthen for the Jan. 6 riot or demanded that the 2020 presidential election be overturned, every so often in deleted posts or now-removed on-line boards.
“Sham-peachment,” they are saying, ...