‘Hatred has a great grip on the heart’: election denialism lives on in US battleground

Arizona voters rejected key election deniers, but false conspiracy theories have maintained their power

The lead-up to Arizona's midterms saw tactics designed to disrupt the American democratic process in a battleground state where election denialism ran rampant. Though voters broadly rejected election deniers, the grip of their ideas remains strong among large portions of the right in the state, which is now at the forefront of the fight over democracy in the US.

Voters in swing states sent a message that they were not receptive to election denialism. They didn't send that message everywhere," said Daniel I Weiner, director of the Brennan Center's elections and government program.