EXTREMISTS ON THE BALLOT.

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On November 8, in key races around the country, voters will be able to elect Republican candidates who have staked out jaw-droppingly extreme positions--and won their party's primaries. Most have been backed by disgraced former President Donald Trump, and in a few cases, by Democrats making the risky calculation that they will be easier to beat. Here are just some of the GOP picks that could soon come to power:

KARI LAKE

Arizona Governor

A diehard denier of the 2020 presidential election results, Lake has called for purging voter registration rolls, ending the use of electronic voting machines, and allowing only in-person voting on Election Day. She called the late Arizona Republican Senator John McCain a "loser," and last June tweeted: "Let's bring back the basics: God, Guns & Glory."

MICHAEL PEROUTKA

Maryland Attorney General

Peroutka has deemed public education a communist plot "to transform America away from a Christian worldview," said that abortion and gay marriage violate God's law, and spread conspiracy theory lies that the attacks of 9/11 were an inside job.

BLAKE MASTERS

Arizona, U.S. Senate

Masters has approvingly quoted the late Nazi leader Hermann Goring, blamed gun violence on "Black people, frankly," and embraced the racist "great replacement" conspiracy theory that Democrats are, as he put it, trying "to change the demographics of our country" by promoting illegal immigration.

DAN COX

Maryland Governor

This first-term state lawmaker called Vice President Mike Pence a "traitor" during the January 6 Capitol riot, has embraced Christian nationalism and the QAnon conspiracy theory, and has warned that "our schools are being used as indoctrination centers to brainwash our children's minds about their own bodies."

DOUG MASTRIANO

Pennsylvania Governor

A retired Army colonel, Mastriano helped send six chartered buses to Trump's January 6 rally in Washington, D.C. He has called the COVID-19 vaccine "the government's poison" and dubbed abortion a "barbaric holocaust."

J.D. VANCE

Ohio, U.S. Senate

This best-selling author of Hillbilly Elegy has called Indigenous Peoples' Day "a fake holiday created to sow division," accused Biden of flooding the nation with fentanyl to "punish people who didn't vote for him," and said that Democrats "want to take our kids and brainwash them."

HERSCHEL WALKER

Georgia, U.S. Senate

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