Portugal heads to the polls in decisive parliamentary elections

Jan 31, 2022 View Original Article
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"But last November, their differences, especially over public health spending and workers' rights, were insurmountable, eventually leading to the snap elections."
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"-- Donald Trump won, Mr. Finchem said."
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48% Conservative
"-- Donald Trump won, Mr. Finchem said."
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48% Conservative
"And Mr. Marchant, in Nevada, said he entered the race after being encouraged by allies of Mr. Trump."
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48% Conservative
"And Mr. Marchant, in Nevada, said he entered the race after being encouraged by allies of Mr. Trump."
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48% Conservative
"Mr. Finchem is sponsoring a bill in Arizona that would treat all voters' ballots as public records and make them searchable online."
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22% Conservative
"Worse, critics say, they could have raised doubts about, or even refused to certify, Mr. Biden's victories."
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18% Conservative
"But several others, who have formed a coalition calling itself the America First slate, are ruing in states won by Mr. Biden in 2020, including in the crucial battleground states of Michigan, Arizona and Nevada."
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14% Conservative
"There, Mr. Finchem told the crowd that the 2020 election had prompted him to run for secretary of state, said he was part of a nationwide populist movement to regain control over our government and called for the State Legislature to decertify the presidential result in Arizona, which Mr. Biden carried by nearly 11,000 votes."
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0% Conservative
"There, Mr. Finchem told the crowd that the 2020 election had prompted him to run for secretary of state, said he was part of a nationwide populist movement to regain control over our government and called for the State Legislature to decertify the presidential result in Arizona, which Mr. Biden carried by nearly 11,000 votes."
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0% Conservative
"In an interview, Mr. Marchant said the group had presented its theories about the 2020 election at three summits in different states recently and plaed others in Wisconsin, Texas, Colorado and Nevada."
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12% Conservative
"Mr. Hice reported more than $575,000 in donations for his secretary of state candidacy in June, twice"
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10% Conservative
"Nothing and no one has catalyzed Republican enthusiasm for secretary of state contests more than Mr. Trump himself, who has offered three endorsements for Mr. Finchem, Ms. Karamo and United States Representative Jody Hice, who is challenging Mr. Raffensperger in Georgia's Republican primary."
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8% Conservative
"Nothing and no one has catalyzed Republican enthusiasm for secretary of state contests more than Mr. Trump himself, who has offered three endorsements for Mr. Finchem, Ms. Karamo and United States Representative Jody Hice, who is challenging Mr. Raffensperger in Georgia's Republican primary."
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8% Conservative
"Nothing and no one has catalyzed Republican enthusiasm for secretary of state contests more than Mr. Trump himself, who has offered three endorsements for Mr. Finchem, Ms. Karamo and United States Representative Jody Hice, who is challenging Mr. Raffensperger in Georgia's Republican primary."
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8% Conservative
"We would like as many like-minded secretary of state candidates to come forward as we can, Mr. Marchant said at a Las Vegas conference that featured members of the coalition along with speakers who are well-known to followers of QAnon conspiracy theories."
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6% Conservative
"Had secretaries of state taken their cues from Mr. Trump in the last election, they could have put their thumbs on the scales of fair elections by forcing the closure of polling places, removing ballot drop boxes or withholding other resources that could make voting easier in heavily Democratic precincts."
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4% Conservative
"All told, some 21 candidates who dispute Mr. Biden's victory are ruing for secretary of state in 18 states, according to States United Action, a nonpartisan group tracking races for secretary of state throughout the country."
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0% Conservative
"The significance of the America First coalition's parallel efforts can be seen clearly in Arizona, where the slate's candidate is Mark Finchem, a former firefighter and real estate agent who has served in the state House since 2015 and has become the leading Republican contender for secretary of state."
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-8% Liberal
"Mr. Finchem, who declined to comment for this article, was in Washington on Jan. 6 and attended the Stop the Steal rally that led to the storming of the Capitol."
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-18% Liberal
"Tony Daunt, a longtime Michigan Republican official who was appointed last year to the panel that certifies the state's election results, said Ms. Karamo, who has falsely claimed that Mr. Trump won Michigan, was unqualified to be secretary of state because of the nonsense regarding the stolen election."
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-18% Liberal
"Their candidacies are alarming watchdog groups, Democrats and some fellow Republicans, who worry that these Trump supporters, if elected to posts that exist largely to safeguard and administer the democratic process, would weaponize those offices to undermine it -- whether by subverting an election outright or by sowing doubts about any local, state or federal elections their party loses."
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-20% Liberal
"He championed the Republican-ordered review of the 2020 vote in Maricopa County -- though he never endorsed its conclusion that Mr. Biden won -- and received a prime speaking spot in Mr. Trump's Jan. 15 rally outside Phoenix."
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2% Conservative
"He championed the Republican-ordered review of the 2020 vote in Maricopa County -- though he never endorsed its conclusion that Mr. Biden won -- and received a prime speaking spot in Mr. Trump's Jan. 15 rally outside Phoenix."
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2% Conservative
"The coalition's other candidates include Jim Marchant in Nevada, a former state legislator; Rachel Hamm in California, who contends that Mr. Trump actually won that deep-blue state; and Kristina Karamo in Michigan, who developed a high profile in conservative media after she made uncorroborated claims that she had seen fraudulent ballots being counted in Detroit during the 2020 election, allegations that have been disproved by both local election officials and courts."
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-24% Liberal
"The coalition's other candidates include Jim Marchant in Nevada, a former state legislator; Rachel Hamm in California, who contends that Mr. Trump actually won that deep-blue state; and Kristina Karamo in Michigan, who developed a high profile in conservative media after she made uncorroborated claims that she had seen fraudulent ballots being counted in Detroit during the 2020 election, allegations that have been disproved by both local election officials and courts."
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-24% Liberal
"In the two months between Election Day and Congress's certification of President Biden's victory, Mr. Trump and his allies pressured Republican secretaries of state, election board members and other officials in battleground states to overturn his defeat."
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4% Conservative
"In the two months between Election Day and Congress's certification of President Biden's victory, Mr. Trump and his allies pressured Republican secretaries of state, election board members and other officials in battleground states to overturn his defeat."
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4% Conservative
"Mr. Trump's phone call to Mr. Raffensperger in Georgia raised the specter of out-and-out fraud in the tabulation of a presidential vote."
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-30% Liberal
"In a phone call that is now the subject of an Atlanta grand jury investigation into Mr. Trump's actions in Georgia, the former president urged Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to find 11,780 votes -- the margin by which Mr. Trump lost the state to Mr. Biden."
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-22% Liberal
"In a phone call that is now the subject of an Atlanta grand jury investigation into Mr. Trump's actions in Georgia, the former president urged Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to find 11,780 votes -- the margin by which Mr. Trump lost the state to Mr. Biden."
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-22% Liberal
"In a phone call that is now the subject of an Atlanta grand jury investigation into Mr. Trump's actions in Georgia, the former president urged Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to find 11,780 votes -- the margin by which Mr. Trump lost the state to Mr. Biden."
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48% : But last November, their differences, especially over public health spending and workers' rights, were insurmountable, eventually leading to the snap elections.

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