‘The Trump playbook’: Republicans hint they will deny election results

Some candidates are already questioning the integrity of the vote and undermining the credibility of the results

Last month Kari Lake, a former local TV anchor on the Fox network, joined a rightwing podcast The Conservative Circus to discuss her bid to become Arizona's next governor.

Lake, who has been endorsed by Donald Trump, began by complaining that Joe Biden had just made a speech about the threat to democracy posed by election deniers like herself who claim, without evidence, that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. The US president called them extremists" and warned that they were preparing to repeat their subversion efforts in November's midterm elections.