Missouri AG race includes two open election deniers

At a candidate forum hosted Wednesday for Missouri’s attorney general race, the two Republican candidates came to an agreement on one issue: The 2020 presidential election was without a doubt stolen by the Democratic Party.

“The left stole that election by changing the rules of the game at the 11th hour,” Andrew Bailey, the incumbent attorney general, said at the debate in Springfield. “They’re going to try to steal this one by silencing our voices on big tech social media platforms, by stifling us in the mainstream media and by packing the polling places with criminal illegal aliens that shouldn’t be here in the first place.”

Will Scharf, a former assistant U.S. attorney and one-time staffer to disgraced former Gov. Eric Greitens (R), concurred with Bailey’s Trumpian rhetoric.

“In the 2020 election, out of 159 million ballots cast, over 100 (million) were early or absentee,” Scharf explained. “It’s absolutely unprecedented in American history. Many of those ballots were cast totally extra-legally, whether it was a lack of signature verification, whether it was the late submission in Pennsylvania, you can go on and on and on.”

Meanwhile, Elad Gross, the only Democrat in the race, answered the question definitively. “No,” Gross, a civil rights attorney, said when asked if he believed that the 2020 election was corrupted by illegal votes.