Despite what we have previously written, it turns out WorldNetDaily columnist Rachel Alexander is not quite ready to abandon the right-wing election fraud narrative. She tried to cobble together a purported one such narrative in her Dec. 9 column:
While Republicans around the country heaved a sigh of relief that Democrats were unable to cheat and steal the presidency from Donald Trump again, many remain convinced corrupt actors still manipulated the results of four Senate races in battleground states and some other down ballot races.
In Arizona, Kari Lake allegedly lost to Rep. Ruben Gallego by about 81,000 votes, even though voters around the state frequently admitted to pollsters they had no idea who he was. He even outperformed Kamala Harris by almost 100,000 votes despite his lack of name recognition.
In contrast, the unknown Green Party Senate candidate, Eduardo Quintana, received about 75,000 votes. This was shocking considering he received 400% more votes than well-known Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who has run for that office for many years. She received only about 18,000 votes.
Quintana, a write-in candidate, received only 282 votes in the Green Party primary earlier this year, beating out two opponents who received even fewer votes. His X account has fewer than 400 followers. He apparently raised so little money for the race that he didn’t file any campaign finance reports.
The Green Party only had 4,187 registered voters at the time of the election. Let’s compare it to the Libertarian Party, which has a significantly larger presence with about 700% more voters, 31,132. Yet the Libertarian Party candidate in 2022, Marc Victor, who is fairly well-known in the state for a third-party candidate, only received 53,762 votes that year. The state hasn’t tilted left since 2020; Republican voter registration has increased to an almost 6% advantage since then.
I’ve asked around for someone to explain the anomaly, including on X, and not one single person has responded with an explanation.
Fearemongering about anomalies is oxygen to conspiracy theories, so Alexander is trying to exploit an information void she pretends can’t be explained away. She doesn’t consider the possibility that awareness of Quintana was raised by Lake trying insert him into her debate with Gallego in an apparent attempt to draw votes away from Gallego.
Alexander went on to reject the idea that Quintana got his votes legitimately by claiming that it’s “evidence that the cheating has likely been going on for years” — but she offered no evidence whatsoever there was any cheating at all. She also overlooked the more likely explanation: Quintana served as a place to go for voters turned off by the major parties — and particularly Lake, who has continued to insist the 2022 gubernatorial election was stolen from her. When she had the opportunity to provide evidence of it, most recently in a defamation lawsuit against her by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, she refused to do so. Instead, Alexander remained in denial about Lake’s lies:
No one really believes that voters who chose Trump also chose radical Gallego. He has a lifetime rating of 4 from the American Conservative Union (out of 100), which dropped to 3 in the latest ratings. He has only 191,000 followers on X, compared to Lake with 2.4 million. Her internal polling recently found that she is the most popular politician in the state after Trump, and many consider her the biggest political phenomenon in the state since Barry Goldwater, in large part due to her brilliant takedowns of the MSM.
Alexander also touted a “exit poll” purporting to claim that “it was discovered that Lake really won the gubernatorial race by 8 points” — but that poll, conducted by the highly biased Rasmussen Reports, was highly flawed. She appears to be running on the conspiracy theory that any election result she didn’t like had to involve fraud:
Other anomalies in Arizona’s 2024 election included State Rep. Cory McGarr allegedly losing his reelection in a Pima County district with a 10-plus Republican voter registration edge. No one believes that the radical abortion-until-birth Prop. 139 passed with over 61% voting yes. Proponents were caught many times on video lying to voters in order to get them to sign the petition to put it on the ballot, so why wouldn’t they cheat in the election as well?
Fortunately, this isn’t the end of it. Two Arizona legislators are demanding an investigation and submitting public records to Pima County Elections, which most people consider even more corrupt than Maricopa County Elections. Two think tanks in Arizona have told me they are heavily investigating. There was likely other types of fraud in Lake’s race, which would explain the rest of the margin she allegedly lost by.
Alexander concluded: “Ignoring the election fraud and “moving on” isn’t going to stop it; instead it will embolden the left to increase it, and you can guarantee they are revving up for the 2026 midterms now and the 2028 presidential election.” But Alexander offered no credible proof, so she can’t claim that “they” are planning to repeat something she can’t prove exists.