CNN: “Brown said there were ‘a lot of questions’ about Biden’s victory in Nevada”
MAGA extremist Sam Brown’s history of pushing to overturn the 2020 election and spreading false conspiracy theories that fueled the deadly January 6 insurrection is back in the spotlight with new reporting from CNN.
Sam Brown continued to support MAGA efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Nevada even after the deadly January 6 insurrection. He actively spread the kind of election conspiracy theories that had fueled the brutal mob attacking the Capitol on January 6 and even downplayed the violent events of that day.
Brown said the violent rioters who attacked our nation’s Capitol, which led to the deaths of five law enforcement officers, were just showing a “patriotic expression” of their “love of country.”
Read more about Brown’s election denialism and MAGA extremism below:
CNN: These 2024 Republican candidates disputed the 2020 election results
Daniel Dale
10/5/2024
Key points:
- During Brown’s previous Senate campaign, an unsuccessful run in the 2022 midterms, Brown said there were “a lot of questions” about Biden’s victory in Nevada in 2020, expressed support for “audits” of the election results months after Biden was inaugurated, and he ran an ad attacking his main Republican primary opponent for supposedly having failed to do more to help challenge Trump’s 2020 defeat in Nevada.
- Brown said in an August 2021 radio interview: “I share a major concern about election integrity. And in a sense that, you know, folks have to be able to trust results, right? And the results told us this last election cycle that Joe Biden won Nevada. The problem we’ve got is there’s a lot of questions out there. And there’s an effort to add an opaque view at what’s really happened.”
- Later in the interview, Brown praised people who were “pursuing the truth of exactly what happened” and appeared to call for judges to “mandate” election audits. He said, “And so I’m all about us digging in and finding out exactly what happened. My fear is, is that unless we have the judicial branch backing up these audits, we’re not going to get the clear answers that we need in order to be able to identify what’s going forward.”
- Brown ran an ad in 2022 that criticized Adam Laxalt, the eventual winner of that primary, for supposedly waiting too long to file 2020 “voter fraud lawsuits,” with the ad’s narrator claiming Laxalt had let down Trump supporters. Brown delivered a similar attack on Laxalt at a 2022 debate.
- Brown’s campaign declined to comment for this article.
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