Conservative billionaires are pouring millions into groups promoting election fraud conspiracies

A. a group of wealthy conservatives transferred $140 million to a number of organizations that could work Support GOP challenge efforts 2024 presidential election results.

Hobby Lobby founder David Green And Wisconsin shipping billionaires Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein are among those who have made major donations to these groups. Wall StreetJournal reports.

Many of these groups are examining voter registrations across the country, advocating policies that would slow vote counting and supporting conservative officials who could lead efforts to challenge the results of the 2024 election, according to the report. Daily.

Daily Green helps fund the Servant Foundation, which donates to one of the so-called election integrity groups: the Conservative Partnership Institute, which founded the Election Integrity Network. However, Hobby Lobby said: Daily He said Green was unaware of the institute and did not direct the foundation to support it.

“I am proud of the Election Integrity Network and the thousands of patriotic Americans,” said Cleta Mitchell, election attorney and president of the Conservative Partnership Institute. Daily.

David Becker, managing director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, said: Daily Many of the claims made by this election integrity movement are “not designed to solve the problems right now.”

“These were designed to set the stage for claiming that the election was stolen after the election,” Becker said.

Independent contacted Uihleins and Green through their respective companies for comment.

Donald Trump He faces charges in Washington, D.C., and Fulton County, Georgia, both related to allegations of attempting to overturn the 2020 election that President Joe Biden legitimately won.

In the nation’s capital, Trump faces charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an official proceeding and deprivation of civil rights following the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots.

In Georgia, Trump and more than a dozen of his allies have been charged in a similar case, with prosecutors alleging they tried to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.

In all cases, the former president has denied any wrongdoing.

Vice President Kamala Harris He said his team already has a plan in case Trump declares victory before votes are counted, as happened in 2020.

“We’ll be dealing with election night and the days after,” Harris told NBC News this week. “We have the resources and the expertise, and that’s what we’re focusing on.”

“This is a person named Donald Trump who is trying to undo free and fair elections,” he continued. “There are still people who deny the will of the people. He incited a violent mob to attack the capital of the United States and 140 law enforcement officers were attacked, some killed. “This is a serious matter.”