Have QAnon conspiracy adherents won Republican primaries?
Multiple candidates embracing aspects of QAnon, a conspiracy theory alleging a plot against President Trump by a satanic "deep state," have won Republican congressional primaries. In Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is running in an Aug. 11 runoff to replace a retiring Republican, has publicly expressed support for QAnon.
In Colorado, five-term incumbent Scott Tipton was defeated by Lauren Boebert, who has previously expressed support for QAnon, although she now says she is "not a follower" of the movement.
Supporters of QAnon, which the FBI called a "domestic terrorism threat" in a 2019 internal memo, have also won primaries for Democratic-controlled House seats in California and Georgia, as well as an Oregon Senate seat, all of which Democrats are expected to hold easily.
