EXTREMISTS ON THE BALLOT.

• Date: 01 October 2022
• Published date: 01 October 2022

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...