“Tina Peters is now a national crusade,” said former Trump advisor Steve Bannon on his Bannon’s War Room podcast Wednesday, joining right-wing conservatives in Colorado who are standing behind Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Peters following her arrest earlier that day.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eli Bremer called for Mesa County Clerk and Recorder and Colorado Secretary of State candidate Tina Peters to suspend her campaign after Peters was indicted by a grand jury yesterday.
Earlier today, a Mesa County grand jury indicted Clerk Tina Peters on ten felony and misdemeanor charges relating to the leaking of secure election data, but that hasn’t dissuaded MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell from supporting her. Lindell says he still endorses Peters and that he will “one hundred percent” campaign for her in Colorado, saying “the people want Tina Peters! I’ll be out there sooner rather than later.”
A Mesa County grand jury has indicted Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters on 10 counts and Deputy Clerk Belinda Knisley on 6 counts related to an investigation into allegations of election equipment tampering and official misconduct.
At Grand Junction High School yesterday, embattled Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters pitched her candidacy for Colorado Secretary of State to GOP caucus-goers who included Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein.
“This is not about Republican and Democrat,” Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters told the audience of election conspiracists. “They try to make it so it seems they’re dividing one party against the other, but it’s not that at all. It’s the globalists who have their thumb on the scales. … So it’s important for us to bring everybody into the fold to let them know what’s going on.”
Yesterday afternoon a jet used by election conspiracist Mike Lindell, who’s the CEO of MyPillow, Inc., departed Minnesota en route to Centennial, Colorado. Flight records indicate it diverted to Grand Junction instead. Less than 30 minutes later, it left Mesa County, headed back to Minnesota with a brief 20-minute stop at Centennial Airport.
This morning, state Rep. Matt Soper (R-Delta) said that he wishes he had a “do-over” after voting to support proposed amendments presented in the Colorado House of Representatives yesterday that are steeped in election fraud conspiracy theories. Soper explained that he is currently recovering from COVID-19 and his remote participation in the discussion caused him to misunderstand the amendments he was voting on.
Earlier this month, Sherronna Bishop, an election fraud conspiracist as well as a former campaign manager for U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), created a Facebook post urging people not to donate to the Republican Party.
Colorado Gubernatorial hopeful Heidi Ganahl made headlines last month for sharing her belief at a Durango fundraiser that the 2020 election results may have been rigged.
