{"id":25944,"date":"2020-06-12T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T22:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25944"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:53:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T22:53:13","slug":"qanon-follower-favored-for-congressional-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25944","title":{"rendered":"QAnon follower favored for congressional seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A follower of the QAnon conspiracy theory on Thursday advanced to a runoff in the Republican primary race to represent a deep-red Georgia county in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Based on that result,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dctszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwjgdmgp_skkbmmvrvtbmprjjjmbv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dctszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwjgdmgp_skkbmmvrvtbmprjjjmbv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1592087510530000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHH-bLWehzicEYu5Ow1jBgtCqH-Aw\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>\u00a0could soon be the first member of Congress to publicly back the theory, which posits that\u00a0President Trump\u00a0and the military are working together to expose and arrest a shadowy cabal of global elites and Democratic establishment figures who control the government and run a global child sex trafficking ring.<\/p>\n<p>Greene will face John Cowan, a physician, in the Aug. 11 runoff. Greene led the primary field with roughly 40 percent of the vote, 20 points ahead of Cowan.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of that race will be a heavy favorite against Democrat Kevin Van Ausdal, given that retiring Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jvrfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqknsqmsj_skkbmmvrvtbmprjjjmbv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jvrfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqknsqmsj_skkbmmvrvtbmprjjjmbv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1592087510530000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFw3POicxPQ1cGsx4inhOUVyxi8Vg\">Tom Graves<\/a>\u00a0(R) won the district by 53 points in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Greene has not made her belief in the unsubstantiated conspiracy theory a secret.<\/p>\n<p>She said that &#8220;Q,&#8221; the mysterious figure who posts anonymous messages online that serve as the foundation for the theory, is a &#8220;patriot,&#8221; in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/tvhjsdwfpllktdtlkbvppkjjpwkrlwlggcpfdmrpwmcwb_skkbmmvrvtbmprjjjmbv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/tvhjsdwfpllktdtlkbvppkjjpwkrlwlggcpfdmrpwmcwb_skkbmmvrvtbmprjjjmbv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1592087510530000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEHP_fWZ3zLizn7TnMGhbZRlbmQ4g\">YouTube video<\/a>\u00a0from 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is someone that very much loves his country and he\u2019s on the same page as us and he is very pro-Trump,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very excited about that now there\u2019s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan worshipping pedophiles out and I think we have the president to do it,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Greene is not the first candidate to win the Republican party&#8217;s nomination this cycle while espousing a belief in QAnon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A follower of the QAnon conspiracy&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25945,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25944\/revisions\/25945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}