Arizona, California, Florida have the most QAnon-aligned candidates running for federal and state office: report

• An evaluation by the Grid information website discovered 78 QAnon-aligned candidates on state and federal ballots throughout the US.
• Arizona has 13, greater than some other state, adopted by Florida (12), and California (10).
• Collectively, the 78 candidates have raised greater than $20 million this election cycle, Grid discovered.  

Arizona, Florida, and California are the three states with essentially the most QAnon-aligned candidates presently working for state and federal workplace, an evaluation by the Grid information website has discovered.

Arizona — dwelling to QAnon chief and congressional candidate Ron Watkins — tops the listing, with 13 candidates recognized as having ties to the rising conspiracy concept.

Florida is in second place with 12 QAnon-aligned candidates. California has 10, and Texas got here in fourth with 6.

In all, 26 states have a complete of 78 candidates working for state or federal workplace this yr who’ve supported QAnon by publicly following and sharing the group’s conspiracy theories on-line.

Every candidate recognized as QAnon was contacted by Grid for affirmation earlier than they had been included within the evaluation, the report mentioned.

Of the 78 QAnon-aligned candidates, all however six are Republican. Over a dozen are incumbents, together with GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert who each serve within the Home of Representatives. Boebert’s and Greene’s workplaces didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Insider. Boebert has beforehand denied being a QAnon follower.

The 78 have raised a mixed $20 million, together with from GOP megadonors corresponding to Dwelling Depot co-fonder Bernard Marcus, former on line casino mogul Steve Wynn, and San Francisco Giants proprietor Charles Johnson, the report mentioned. 

The far-right fringe group has grown more and more mainstream among the many GOP base and espouses the outlandish conspiracy concept that an elite cabal of Devil-worshiping, blood-drinking pedophiles run the world.

Erin Snodgrass contributed to this report.