There was no real suspense. Marjorie Taylor Greene was, Tuesday, November 3 in the United States, one of the very first candidates elected to the House of Representatives, where she will sit for the State of Georgia. A candidate in an ultra-Republican stronghold, she was almost guaranteed to win, since her surprise victory in the local Republican primary.
Customary racist statements, Mme Greene will also be the first “QAnon MP” in the United States. Since 2017, she has regularly claimed part of this conspiracy movement, which claims that a secret pedophile cabal controls the United States, and that Donald Trump, helped by a mysterious “Q” who publishes anonymous messages online, is the only one who can stop them.
“‘Q’ is a patriot, estimated Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2017. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to eliminate this global cabal of satanist pedophiles, and I think we have the right president for that. “ Since then, the 46-year-old woman had partly distanced herself from the movement during the campaign for her inauguration, removing old videos and messages promoting “Q” on social networks.
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Two elected, twenty defeats
Lauren Boebert, Republican candidate in Colorado, had followed the same path. After having described QAnon positively for a long time, and participated in several pro-QAnon online shows, she finally claimed this summer to have distanced herself from the movement, even describing it as “fake news”. By conviction, or by strategy? Mme Boebert was in any case also elected to the House of Representatives, six points ahead of her Democratic rival.
However, in general, the more assertive QAnon label did not necessarily pay off during this election. Of the two dozen candidates – Republicans or independents – who had shown their support for the movement, only Mr.my Greene and Boebert were elected. Some Republican “QAnon candidates” had been invested in ridings that were very difficult to win. In California, Republican Mike Cargile, who was competing in the 35e California constituency, a Democratic stronghold with a very large Hispanic population, did not even garner 30% of the vote.
His result remains much better than that of Antoine Tucker. Candidate “Write-in” in New York (his name was not on the ballots but could be added manually by voters), the man presented himself on his campaign site as “The first ex-convict to be both black and Hispanic to compete for Congress.” His pro-QAnon stances and his 250,000 Twitter followers will not have helped him much in his constituency, a Democratic stronghold won by the rising star of the party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: this November 3, he collected less than 0, 09% of the vote.
