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6 Aug, 10 tweets, 3 min read

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“Pro-marijuana candidate Adam Weeks reportedly said GOP recruited him to ‘pull votes away’ from Democrats [in Minnesota race]” - CBS News -10/29/29 h/t ⁦@hopes_matt⁩ 1/ cbsnews.com/news/adam-week…

2/ “Democrats have accused GOP operatives of recruiting third-party candidates such as Weeks to siphon off votes that would otherwise go to Democratic candidates in a number of races across Minnesota and the rest of the country.”

“Brian Evans, a spokesman for Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, told the AP that Republicans have recruited or are suspected of recruiting several candidates to run as Legal Marijuana Now or other third-party candidates across Minnesota.” 3/

“There are not that many third-party candidates running, and if you look at where they're running it's disproportionately in some of the most competitive districts in Minnesota," Evans said. ‘It's clear that Republicans are recruiting a lot of these folks. It's beyond clear.’” 4/

“The party put out a statement Wednesday listing several races in which Democrats believe, based on media reports, that Republicans have engaged in a coordinated effort to recruit third-party candidates to pull votes away from Democrats in close races.” 5/

"’Running fake candidates to trick people out of their votes is a new low and shows how desperate Minnesota Republicans are,’ Evans said.

Condemning the GOP tactic as ‘unconscionable’ were leaders of three of the top pro-legalization groups in the state…” 6/

@harrisonjaime

.@harrisonjaime

Correction post 1: 2020, not 2029! 7/

The Florida GOP appears to have planted sham candidates in at least 4 2020 races (to siphon votes from Ds). In at least one race, they changed the candidate’s name to make it sound more like the Democrats’ name so that Democratic voters wld be confused. 8/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/1422067…

@bay_bay2005

It appears that Arizona’s GOP planted a fake candidate too. h/t @bay_bay2005 9/

https://twitter.com/bay_bay2005/status/1423616546484723716

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