Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes: Dems Grow Concerned After Boosting GOP ‘Election Deniers’ in Primaries

For years, Democrats have proclaimed that they are the party that is fighting to protect American democracy and the integrity of our elections.

But when it comes to benefiting Democrats in the 2022 midterm election, some liberal groups are not afraid to help boost Republican candidates in primaries who have raised doubts about the 2020 election.

The Washington Post published a report Monday night titled, “Democratic meddling in GOP primaries prompts concern over elevating election deniers.”

The story explained that several Republican candidates, who have cast doubt on the results of the 2020 presidential election, are “benefiting, either directly or indirectly, from a cluster of Democratic-associated groups spending millions of dollars in contested Republican primaries this month.”

“In some cases these groups are attacking more mainstream Republicans and in others they are amplifying messages from the election-denying candidates,” it added.

The logic behind these groups opening their coffers to boost candidates, who they would probably say are dangerous to democracy, is that “such far-right candidates, who hold polarizing views on various issues, would be easier to defeat in the November midterms when a broader slice of the electorate will be casting ballots,” the paper explained.

Howard Wolfson, a Democratic strategist, told the Post, “I think it’s very dangerous and potentially very risky to elevate people who are hostile to democracy.”

“Either this is a crisis moment or it isn’t. And if it is — which it is — you don’t play cute in a crisis,” he added.

The Post notes that some groups have paid for ads to label such candidates “too conservative,” which it adds could be a “potentially flattering label in the context of a Republican primary.”

One such example the paper shares is a group called Democratic Colorado, which is reportedly spending $2 million to boost Republican Senate hopeful Ron Hanks, who was outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, by arguing he is “too conservative” for the state and “highlighting his record on border security, gun rights and opposing abortion.”