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The other candidates on stage are Andy Yates and Rep. Walt Blackman. The big bullet bottle opener guy, Eli Crane, is not here which probably sucks for Watkins because that's the candidate he kept focusing on even though neither of them have a chance in hell at getting the nom.

Oh, this is the candidate who will likely get the nomination btw. 🙃

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Sep 26, 2021

Here's the clip of @BlackmanForAZ praising the Proud Boys at today's "Justice for J6" event:

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The moderator asks Ron Watkins why republicans should vote for him and he cites his big accomplishments like… spreading election disinformation, being retweeted by Trump, and appearing on One America News Network.

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Unlike his fellow AZ GOP lawmakers, Walt Blackman admits there’s no such thing as “decertification.” After Ron and him awkwardly go back and forth a bit, Blackman says he would “decertify” the election results if there was a way to do so.

The moderator asks if the candidates believe the election was stolen through fraud: - Ron obviously says yes. - Walt Blackman says yes. - Andy Yates says no BUT does support the bills Arizona Republican lawmakers have been passing to suppress voters after the 2020 election so

Ron Watkins claims the “biggest issue” in the district is the border wall, despite CD2 being nowhere near the US-MX border. Ron talks about his recent trip to the border wall and laughably claims to have scared “coyotes” off by simply looking them in the eye.

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This is what he was actually doing at the AZ-MX border, btw. Having a photo shoot with his recently purchased prop guns while hanging out with conspiratorial, anti-immigrant militia Veterans on Patrol (not actual veterans btw).

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Nick Martin

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Feb 12, 2022

1. THREAD: QAnon's Ron Watkins, who is running for Congress, has joined forces with the border vigilante group Veterans on Patrol. He filmed himself visiting the Arizona-Mexico border with them in recent days. Here he is with a VOP member who calls herself "Butterfly."

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Watkins is pictured wearing a white cowboy hat, black vest and black shirt. He has a thin brown mustache and brown hair sticking out from underneath the hat. Standing next to him is a woman wearing aviator sunglasses, a camouflage hat, camouflage vest, blue shirt with a red, white and blue bandana around her neck. She has red hair braided into pigtails. They are standing outside with a desert landscape behind them.

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Ron says he would protect social security benefits, so he won Jim’s vote.

Again, here’s the candidate who is actually likely win the republican nomination:

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Brahm Resnik

@brahmresnik

Jan 23, 2021

GOP sponsor declared 'it's perfect.' Pastor who worked on bill said women should get death penalty. But top prosecutor & leading abortion opponent have now come out against it. #12News 12news.com/mobile/article

The question was about military aid to Ukraine. Ron Watkins tries to blame the Keystone Pipeline for the invasion, which elicits a response from Rep. Blackman that leaves Ron with no option but to go “he’s right.”😭

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The moderator asks Ron Watkins “how would you have reacted as a congressmen on Jan. 6th?” Ron says he would text Trump and ask him to “call it off.” Then he throws his frens under the bus.

The moderator asks about Ron Watkins’ relationship to QAnon. Obviously he lies and claims he has no relationship. azmirror.com/2021/10/21/ron

I can tell a bunch are going to be annoying about this so you can stop the DMs now, I’m not saying that *I* think Blackman is right, I’m just saying Ron was left with no option but to respond this way because Blackman immediately and forcefully shit all over his awful response.

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