'The Big Lie' Lives On, And May Lead Some To Oversee The Next Election

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🗓️ 6 January 2022

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A year since the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, the belief in 'the big lie' is now mainstream. And in states around the country, that belief is driving people to run for public office, where they would oversee elections this year. NPR's Miles Parks reports. Here's his complete report on where election-denying candidates are running to control voting.

And NPR's Tovia Smith reports on why 'the big lie' is still so hard to dispel.

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0:00.0	You can't love your country only when you win.
0:03.1	That is what President Joe Biden said today in a speech marking one year
0:07.3	since the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
0:09.9	You can't obey the law only when it's convenient.
0:14.2	You can't be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies.
0:18.5	Lies about the election Biden pointed out have not abated in the last year.
0:22.8	And in fact, as we told you earlier this week, belief in them has only grown.
0:27.6	A recent empire Ipsos poll found that a majority of Republicans and just over a third of all voters
0:34.7	believe that voter fraud helped Biden win the presidency.
0:38.8	And so at this moment, we must decide what kind of nation are we going to be?
0:46.0	Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?
0:51.3	Are we going to be a nation?
0:52.8	What we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed rule of the people?
0:59.2	Are we going to be a nation that lives not by the light of the truth or the shadow of lies?
1:08.8	Lies about 2020. Now threatened to influence elections this year and beyond.
1:14.4	What we're experiencing right now is a form of tyranny that is insidious.
1:18.9	That's Mark Finchum, a Republican Arizona State Representative and Trump supporter who was at
1:23.6	the U.S. Capitol a year ago. He snapped some photos but says he did not go inside.
1:28.8	You're hearing him speak just weeks before that day at an event with Rudy Giuliani in Arizona.
1:33.7	You ain't seen nothing yet because when Satan wants to, when Satan wants to extinguish a light,
1:40.9	he will stop at nothing.
1:43.1	And this year, Mark Finchum is running to be Arizona's Secretary of State. That means he would oversee
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