Why it matters: Democrats have focused their attention on secretary of state races to ensure the results of the 2024 presidential election are not overturned.
There are 27 secretary of state contests on the U.S. ballot this year — 13 positions held by Democrats, 13 by Republicans and one — in North Dakota — held by an independent, Axios’ Alexi McCammond writes. Some Republican candidates for secretary of state have echoed former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about the 2020 election.
What they say: “What we can expect from the extreme Republicans running this country is to undermine free and fair elections for the American people, disenfranchise Americans, refuse to address security breaches and, unfortunately , to be more subject to Mar-a-Lago than the American people,” Griswold, who chairs the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, told the Guardian.
“For us, we’re trying to save democracy,” he said. “The country could lose the right to vote in less than three months,” he added, warning that Trump-backed candidates could use their positions to overturn election results or cast doubt on elections the party loses. their. “We must reject that protecting voting rights is partisan. It’s not,” Griswold said. “It’s the most American and democratic thing you can do.”
