The guy is an ex-criminal who served 7 years in prison for robbery. Does anybody know how or why the Republican Party ever allowed this creep to run as their candidate in the general election?
My guess is that in this particular district they knew Repubs would lose and so they just endorsed the first Trump-supporting grifter who was willing to run.
Here are excerpts from a BBC report outlining this lunatics’ own use of Trump’s “Big Lie” technique. He actually claimed he
won the majority of votes and lost overwhelmingly only because of … Democratic Party “fraud.”
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“Mr Pena lost his attempt to sit in the state's House and contested his defeat… The election result was a convincing one, with his Democratic opponent and incumbent winning 73% of the vote.
“On 15 November he posted a photo of himself in a Make America Great Again sweatshirt and draped in a Trump 2024 flag, saying he would not concede the election.”
Former Republican candidate held over shootings targeting Democrats' homes