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Election denialism
Cawthorn was one of the most vocal and incessant 2020 election denialists . At a Turning Point USA conference in December 2020, Cawthorn promisted to try to contest the 2020 presidential election results when Congress counted the Electoral College votes in January 2021, and claimed, without a shred of evidence, that fraud had been committed. He subsequently pushed his narrative with whatever conspiracy theory he could get his eyes on to run advertisements and raise money for himself. “ Voter fraud is common