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Don't see Republicans doing this. Democrats will stop at nothing to win and rig elections.
A congressional candidate who said he was tricked by Democrats into running as a spoiler in a competitive House race in Minnesota suspended his campaign Thursday and endorsed his Republican rival.
Thomas Bowman, an independent running in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, said he’d come to the realization that he was a “pawn” for Democrats deceptively working to split the conservative vote.
Bowman was among several candidates recruited by the Patriots Run Project, which worked to install pro-Trump conservatives as independent candidates in at least eight key House and Senate races.
Bowman said he changed his mind in part after learning one of the donors, Elizabeth Steinglass, had also given to Craig’s campaign. Steinglass and her husband, David, have given millions to Democratic political candidates and groups, and both have given the maximum this cycle to Craig’s campaign.
An AP investigation found an array of Democratic consulting firms and donors are secretly driving the effort, which used deceptive Facebook pages and websites to recruit candidates and funded efforts to qualify for the ballot.
In Iowa, the Division of Criminal Investigation has opened an election fraud inquiry after independent candidate Joe Wiederien said he’d been tricked and withdrew his name from the ballot in a competitive House race.
A complaint has also been filed with the Federal Election Commission alleging the group failed to register as a political committee, which would likely reveal the identity of its management and donors. Facebook has taken down the group’s pages, and its websites have been deleted.
A congressional candidate who said he was tricked by Democrats into running as a spoiler in a competitive House race in Minnesota suspended his campaign Thursday and endorsed his Republican rival.
Thomas Bowman, an independent running in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, said he’d come to the realization that he was a “pawn” for Democrats deceptively working to split the conservative vote.
Bowman was among several candidates recruited by the Patriots Run Project, which worked to install pro-Trump conservatives as independent candidates in at least eight key House and Senate races.
Bowman said he changed his mind in part after learning one of the donors, Elizabeth Steinglass, had also given to Craig’s campaign. Steinglass and her husband, David, have given millions to Democratic political candidates and groups, and both have given the maximum this cycle to Craig’s campaign.
An AP investigation found an array of Democratic consulting firms and donors are secretly driving the effort, which used deceptive Facebook pages and websites to recruit candidates and funded efforts to qualify for the ballot.
In Iowa, the Division of Criminal Investigation has opened an election fraud inquiry after independent candidate Joe Wiederien said he’d been tricked and withdrew his name from the ballot in a competitive House race.
A complaint has also been filed with the Federal Election Commission alleging the group failed to register as a political committee, which would likely reveal the identity of its management and donors. Facebook has taken down the group’s pages, and its websites have been deleted.
