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<ul class="summary-list"><li>GOP Senate candidate for <keyword id="11898017" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ohio" source="Orion">Ohio</keyword> <keyword id="12577065" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mark-pukita" source="Orion">Mark Pukita</keyword> said last week he hasn't been vaccinated against <keyword id="11893994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19" source="Orion">COVID-19</keyword>.</li><li>Pukita's Senate financial disclosure indicates he owns stock in Johnson &amp; Johnson and Pfizer.</li></ul>Republican US Senate candidate Mark Pukita of Ohio, who bragged last week that he has not received the COVID-19 <keyword id="11894310" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vaccine" source="Orion">vaccine</keyword>, is making money from companies that produce the vaccine, a new disclosure filed with the US Senate indicates.Pukita, an IT executive, holds up to $50,000 in Johnson &amp; Johnson stock, making up to $1,000 in dividends in the past year, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21115112-pukita-financial-disclosure-november-2021">according to a financial disclosure</a> viewed by Insider.The disclosure also indicates he owns up to $15,000 in Pfizer stock, making up to $1,000 in dividends in the past year.Pukita also has personal stock investments of up to $15,000 each in Thermo Fisher Scientific and Abbott Laboratories. Both companies manufacture COVID-19 tests.During a <a href="https://www.theohiopressnetwork.com/news/ohio/gop-u-s-senate-forum---live-from-columbus-ohio/html_bebaaba6-4326-11ec-9727-affc73089a1b.html?utm_campaign=blox&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social">candidates' forum</a> last week in Columbus, Ohio, Pukita stated he was the only candidate in the crowded GOP field who had not received the vaccine."It's one thing to talk, it's another thing to act," Pukita said, claiming he was out protesting against vaccine mandates and masks. "I'm also the only one up here... who's not vaxxed."He also challenged fellow US Senate candidate Josh Mandel to share whether or not he's vaccinated. Mandel, who is considered the frontrunner in the race, declined to do so.Pukita previously made headlines for a campaign ad he issued about Mandel that was criticized as antisemitic. Pukita <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/11/ohio-senate-jewish-campaign-ad-mandel-521007">denied</a> the ad was anti-Jewish.His <a href="https://pukitaforsenate2022.com/pressroom/">campaign website</a> says he is "not anti-vax but absolutely anti-force" and that Pukita is the "only Ohio US Senate candidate to state he has not vaxxed."The website also <a href="https://pukitaforsenate2022.com/agenda/restore-freedom/">calls for</a> an "all-out attack on the SWAMP, deep state and big tech" and an <a href="https://pukitaforsenate2022.com/policy/#policy-guide">end</a> to the "unholy alliance of the Deep State and Big-Tech" but Pukita's Senate financial disclosure indicates he owns stock in several tech giants, including up to $50,000 each in Apple, Amazon, Comcast, Facebook (now Meta), and Alphabet (Google), as well as up to $100,000 in Microsoft.Pukita did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.The GOP Senate primary in Ohio also includes candidate JD Vance, who <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-ohio-senate-finances-money-hillbilly-elegy-2021-11">missed the deadline</a> to file federally mandated financial disclosure forms and still has yet to do so.

A GOP Senate candidate bragged that he's not vaccinated but financial disclosures show he's making money from companies that make COVID-19 vaccines

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Republican <keyword id="11994982" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="jd-vance" source="Orion">JD Vance</keyword> and Democrat <keyword id="13663352" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tim-ryan" source="Orion">Tim Ryan</keyword> will face off in Ohio's US Senate race. </li><li>Vance, a venture capitalist and "Hillbilly Elegy" author, was endorsed by Donald Trump. </li></ul>Ohio is holding primary <keyword id="11931743" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="elections" source="Orion">elections</keyword> for a Republican-held open US Senate seat. Polls closed at 7:30 p.m. <h2>The race and the stakes:</h2>Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Ryan will face off in the open US Senate race in Ohio to replace outgoing GOP Sen. Rob Portman, who announced in January 2021 that he would not be re-seeking a 3rd term in office.Portman's retirement opened up the doors for a new slate of contenders to represent the state in the Senate — and set up a particularly high-stakes contest for Republicans. One of the leading candidates on the Republican side of the aisle is venture capitalist and author JD Vance, whose campaign is backed by billionaire Peter Thiel.Former <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-jd-vance-dr-oz-endorsements-spurs-maga-loyalists-rebel-2022-4">President Donald Trump</a> endorsed Vance in mid-April. But Trump's backing didn't guarantee smooth sailing for Vance in the crowded and unpredictable race — and not just because <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-confuses-jd-vance-josh-mandel-names-ohio-senate-primary-2022-5">Trump mangled Vance's name as "JD Mandel"</a> at a recent rally. (Former state representative and Ohio state treasurer Josh Mandel is one of Vance's Republican rivals.)Trump's endorsement of Vance came much to the <a href="https://thehill.com/news/campaign/3269950-ohio-gop-leaders-press-trump-to-not-endorse-jd-vance/">chagrin of several GOP leaders</a> in the state, who warned Trump against nominating the "Hillbilly Elegy" author for several comments denigrating Trump and his supporters. Among them: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-once-thought-trump-could-become-americas-hitler-2022-4">unearthed messages</a> with Vance's former college roommate from 2016 revealed Vance comparing Trump to German dictator Adolf Hitler.Trump's backing of Vance, who's also <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jd-vance-senate-ohio-finance-2022-4">twice failed to properly file</a> required financial disclosures during the campaign, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/trump-club-for-growth-ohio/index.html">has also spurred a bitter dispute and falling out</a> between Trump and his onetime-ally David McIntosh, president of the influential Club for Growth, which backed Mandel.Without Trump's endorsement, Mandel leaned on endorsements from retired <a href="https://dayton247now.com/news/local/one-on-one-josh-mandel-talks-trump-endorsement-more-during-kettering-stop">Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn</a>, who briefly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-michael-flynn-guilty-plea-2017-12">served</a> as Trump's national security advisor, and Sen. <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/cruz-endorses-josh-mandel-ohios-crowded-senate-primary-83860733">Ted Cruz</a> of Texas to fuel his campaign. Also of help: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/trump-club-for-growth-ohio/index.html">financial support from the Club for Growth,</a> which aired ads highlighting Vance's stinging critiques of Trump from several years ago, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/us/politics/ohio-senate-race-trump.html">The New York Times reported.</a>Mandel, who has <a href="https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/twitter-removes-hateful-poll-posted-by-u-s-senate-candidate-josh-mandel/">long made waves with his inflammatory remarks and tweets</a>, has positioned himself as a fighter in the race — and not just figuratively.He <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/18/ohio-gop-senate-debate-gibbons-mandel-fight-00018678">squared off</a> against fellow GOP candidate Mike Gibbons, a largely self-funded candidate, at a March debate after Gibbons took a shot at Mandel's experience working in the private sector — a brouhaha that almost led to a physical altercation on stage.Other Republican candidates included former Ohio Republican Party Chair Jane Timken, Mark Pukita, Neil Patel, and Matt Dolan. Dolan, another wealthy candidate who has put significant sums of his own money into his campaign, was <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/29/trump-says-matt-dolan-is-not-fit-for-ohios-senate-seat-hes-gaining-ground-anyway-00028824">the only candidate in the primary who has not angled for Trump's support</a> by echoing his lies that the 2020 election was stolen. He has campaigned on looking toward the future instead of re-litigating the past.Dolan <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/matt-dolan-ohio-republican-senate-primary-surge">saw a last-minute boost in support in recent polls</a> leading up to the election and <a href="https://twitter.com/HenryJGomez/status/1521124344814047232?s=20&amp;t=jImNpC1EiXJpBF8m1uCDkQ">earned the backing of a high-profile donor</a>, momentum that<a href="https://twitter.com/natalie_allison/status/1519062794963980288?s=20&amp;t=jImNpC1EiXJpBF8m1uCDkQ"> made him a target of Trump's attacks. </a>On the Democratic Party side, Ryan easily secured the Democratic nomination against attorney Morgan Harper and tech executive Traci Johnson.Ryan, first elected to Congress in 2012 from a district in Youngstown, Ohio, unsuccessfully ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primary.<h2>What experts say:</h2>Ohio, once a competitive battleground state, has trended markedly more Republican in recent years, with Trump <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ohio-presidential-election-2020-live-vote-counts-results-2020">winning</a> the state in 2020 by 8 percentage points. In the November general election, the Ohio Senate race is rated as "solid Republican" by <a href="https://insideelections.com/ratings/senate">Inside Elections</a>, "lean R" by <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/senate-race-ratings">The Cook Political Report</a>, and "likely R" by <a href="https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2022-senate/">Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.</a>

LIVE RESULTS: Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Ryan will face off for US Senate in Ohio

<ul class="summary-list"><li>At least 36 QAnon-supporting candidates intend to run for <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword> in 2022, Media Matters said.</li><li>Some of the candidates are diehard <keyword id="9152811" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="qanon">QAnon</keyword> fans, while others signal their support subtly.</li><li>Experts told Insider that this shows how QAnon has evolved into a major political force.</li></ul>In July 2020, JR Majewski made national headlines after transforming his 19,000-square-foot lawn into a massive Trump re-election banner. When the Air Force veteran from Ohio appeared in a <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6171039977001#sp=show-clips">television interview with Fox News</a>, he was wearing a <a href="https://www.insider.com/qanon-history-who-is-q-conspiracy-theory-what-does-believe-2021-2">QAnon</a> T-shirt.Several months later, as Congress met to certify President Joe Biden's election win, Majewski was among the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congregant-gives-up-father-son-pastor-duo-in-connection-to-capitol-riot">thousands of Trump supporters</a> who attended the "Stop the Steal" rally in Washington DC, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/meet-qanon-affiliated-insurrectionist-running-congress-ohio">later admitting to</a> breaching police barricades and walking up to the base of the Capitol building.Majewski is now trying to return to the Capitol, but this time as a congressman representing the 9th district of Ohio, a seat currently held by Democratic Rep. Marcy Kapur.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-death-suicide-qanon-jeffrey-epstein-conspiracy-theories-2021-6">QAnon followers are already spreading Epstein-like conspiracy theories about John McAfee's reported suicide</a>Since he was first spotted wearing the "Q" T-shirt, Majewski has made <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3944616">several more references</a> to the conspiracy theory, posting QAnon <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3936266">images</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3936271">hashtags</a> on his social media channel, and live streaming videos with the well-known QAnon influencer RedPill79.Majewski is one of many congressional candidates running in the 2022 midterm elections who have given credence to QAnon, which the FBI described as a far-right group with "anti-government, identity-based and fringe political <keyword id="1379614" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="conspiracy-theories">conspiracy theories</keyword>," <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-candidates-florida-21st-congressional-district-trump/2020/08/16/a8d710b8-de2d-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html">The Washington Post</a> reported. <div type="image" title="Ohio man JR Majewski stands on his Trump-themed lawn" height="716" width="1433" msid="83892630" hostid="261"></div>A <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/here-are-qanon-supporters-running-congress-2022">Media Matters investigation</a> published earlier this month revealed that 36 candidates in 17 states have either openly endorsed QAnon, made subtle references to, or distanced themselves from the conspiracy theory despite repeatedly displaying their support on social media or in video interviews. Thirty-three of the candidates are running as Republicans while two are independents and one is still deciding whether to run as a Republican or an independent, the investigation found. The state with the most QAnon-believing candidates is Florida with nine candidates, followed by California which has six candidates, although these numbers are still subject to change.On the list are a handful of incumbents in Congress, including the gun-loving <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lauren-boebert-says-democrats-are-obsessed-with-conspiracy-theories-2021-3">Rep. Lauren Boebert </a>and Rep. <a href="https://www.insider.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-jewish-lasers-space-conspiracy-theories-theory-history-2021-2">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a>, who helped bring the conspiracy theory into the mainstream. <h2>The diehard QAnon supporters</h2>Around a dozen congressional candidates have openly affiliated with the QAnon conspiracy theory, including <a href="https://twitter.com/DWood4Congress/status/1277333760514482177?s=20">Daniel Wood of Arizona</a>,<a href="https://twitter.com/alkapdc/status/1289957265609388039?lang=en"> Darlene Schwaffar of Florida</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B_x0BlolZei/?igshid=1df4txm0cnfjs">Mayra Flores of Texas</a>.In this cohort is also <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Reba_Sherrill">Reba Sherill</a>, a health and wellness advocate who in 2020 unsuccessfully ran in Florida's 21st congressional district - home to Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. She is running again as a Republican candidate for the US Senate in the midterms.As a big Trump fan, Sherrill used to gather with other supporters on a bridge near Mar-A-Lago to wave in homage at the former president's motorcade whenever he was in town, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-candidates-florida-21st-congressional-district-trump/2020/08/16/a8d710b8-de2d-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html">The Washington Post</a> reported. She is an ardent QAnon believer and has made the conspiracy theory central to her largely self-funded campaign. The self-described "Q patriot" focuses her campaign on child trafficking, matching with QAnon's false belief that Trump is fighting a "deep state" cabal of human traffickers in the United States, <a href="https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/how-the-q-anon-factor-is-playing-out-in-floridas-gop-primaries-151258934.html">Yahoo News</a> reported.Sherrill has also referred to the more extreme adrenochrome theory - the belief that Democratic elites harvest the drug from children by torturing them and drinking their blood - in a now-deleted post on her <a href="https://www.rebaforcongress.com/">website.</a>The Flordia native told Yahoo <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">News</keyword> that the "mainstream media tries to paint people who talk about human trafficking and child sex trafficking as being some kind of crazy lunatics." "This is not a conspiracy, this is reality," she insisted. "It's not some fictitious thing."Another congressional candidate who believes in the human trafficking theory is Omar Navarro, a convicted stalker running for California's 43rd congressional district.Navarro, who also featured in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/qanon-trump-capitol-attack-belief-precursor-the-storm-2021-1">HBO's "Q: Into the Storm" documentary series</a>, is one of the more recognizable faces of the QAnon world.The California native, who last year spent <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200803161010/https://www.thedailybeast.com/california-rep-maxine-waters-foe-omar-navarro-gets-out-of-jail-and-attempts-to-destroy-fellow-republican?source=articles&amp;via=rss=rss">six months in jail</a> after pleading guilty to a stalking charge, told Insider in an interview that he believes in "some things" that "Q" says, including the human trafficking trope. "I do believe that there's human trafficking going on right now. I do believe that Hollywood has participated in some of this with pedophilia on and it's something obviously we can't ignore," he said.Navarro, who has gone viral multiple times on Twitter for his far-right and <a href="https://twitter.com/realomarnavarro/status/1399204839247147017?lang=en">homophobic views</a>, has previously pushed the debunked Pizzagate theory. He told Insider: "I feel like there are certain things going on. There's something shady in that pizza shop."The Californian also defended using the popular QAnon slogan WWG1WGA ("Where we go one, we go all") in a tweet posted on October 3, 2020, saying he ended up deleting it because he didn't want Twitter to ban him."I always have to worry about my free speech and what I say on Twitter," he said.The fear of being removed from social media platforms is not holding back QAnon fan Jo Rae Perkins, who is running for the Senate in Oregon, where she unsuccessfully ran in 2020.Perkins, who discovered QAnon messaging boards in 2017 and describes them as a "source of information." She has also <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3845201">posted</a> a video of herself taking a "digital soldier oath" in front of a WWG1WGA sticker, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/22/politics/jo-rae-perkins-qanon-oregon-senate-race/index.html">CNN reported.</a>In a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JoRaePerkins/videos/10212656828176113/">video interview with Right Wing Watch</a> last year, Perkins compared the "Q" posts to secret codes used during World War II and said believing in Q is like believing in Jesus Christ, <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqkjv/qanon-already-has-19-followers-running-for-congress">VICE reported</a>. <h2>The camouflage candidates</h2>Around eight candidates have consistently and blatantly pushed elements of the QAnon conspiracy theory in the past but have, in some way, tried to distance themselves from it. These include <a href="https://twitter.com/BarnettforAZ/status/1294797667910918144">Josh Barnett</a>, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/last-ditch-plot-to-sabotage-bidens-presidential-election-goes-full-qanon">Bobby Piton</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Johnheretohelp/status/1380577727292575744">Jon McGreevey</a>, and <a href="https://eu.northjersey.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/15/bill-pascrell-and-billy-prempeh-vying-control-njs-9th-district/3655043001/">Billy Prempeh</a>.Most famously, firebrand Rep. <keyword id="9740457" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="marjorie-taylor-greene">Marjorie Taylor Greene</keyword>, the freshman Congressperson who <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-wins-house-gop-runoff-georgia/story?id=72316326">received the support of Former President Donald Trump</a> after her primary runoff victory in Georgia's 14th Congressional District, is one of these candidates.In the past, Greene has proliferated bizarre fantasies that are on-brand with the QAnon conspiracy theory.She has <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/marjorie-taylor-greene-endorsed-deranged-conspiracy-theory-about-democrats-and-satanic">accused Hillary Clinton of sexually assaulting a child before slicing off her face and wearing it as a mask.</a> She once suggested that the late Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/supreme-court/marjorie-taylor-greene-2019-suggested-ruth-bader-ginsburg-was-replaced-body-double">Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been replaced by a body </a>double years ago, and has said that <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/01/30/did-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-blame-a-space-laser-for-wildfires-heres-the-response/?sh=65910c3ce44a">California wildfires might have been started by space lasers</a>.<div type="image" title="marjorie taylor greene" height="2682" width="3576" msid="83892631" hostid="261"></div>Greene pushed these ideas so fervently that she became a "correspondent" for a conspiracy news website between 2017 and 2018, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/georgia-congressional-candidate-s-writings-highlight-qanon-support-n1236724">NBC News</a> reported. In <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180419234735/http://americantruthseekers.com/qanon-what-is-the-storm-and-is-there-about-to-be-an-awakening/">one of her posts</a> for the now-defunct "American Truth Seekers" website, the controversial lawmaker called Q a "patriot."She also told her social media followers that Q "is worth listening to" in a now-deleted video from 2017.But while Greene once proudly broadcast some of QAnon's wildest ideas, she has since tried to publicly distance herself from the conspiracy theory.In August 2020, Greene said that QAnon no longer represented her current position. "No, I don't [consider myself a QAnon candidate]. I think that's been the media's characterization of me," she told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/marjorie-greene-georgia-gop-says-shes-not-a-qanon-candidate">Fox News</a>.But that didn't stop Twitter from<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-suspended-from-twitter-for-12-hours-2021-1"> temporarily locking her account in January 2021</a> when it culled QAnon accounts after the deadly Capitol riot.Rep. <keyword id="10543170" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lauren-boebert">Lauren Boebert</keyword>, a contemporary of Greene and a rising star in the GOP, has also tried to walk back her support of the conspiracy theory she had formerly championed.Known to some as the "<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/qanon-lauren-boebert-nancy-pelosi-capitol-riot-b1785663.html">QAnon Congresswoman,"</a> Boebert has said that she is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/01/who-is-lauren-boebert-republican-primary-qanon-trump">"very familiar" with QAnon</a> and has praised the conspiracy theory. "Everything that I've heard of Q, I hope that this is real because it only means that America is getting stronger and better, and people are returning to conservative values," she said during <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885991730/gop-candidates-open-to-qanon-conspiracy-theory-advance-in-congressional-races">an appearance on QAnon web show SteelTruth</a> in May 2020.But after winning the Republican nomination for Colorado's 3rd District, she told <a href="https://kdvr.com/news/politics/colorado-primary-winner-lauren-boebert-meets-president-trump-distances-herself-from-qanon/">Fox 31 News</a> that she's "not a follower." She did not, however, disavow a central tenet of the QAnon ideology - that the "deep state" is actively working against Trump. "I believe there are people working in the administration that at least appear to be actively undermining President Trump," she said in 2020.<div type="image" title="AP lauren boebert" height="2670" width="3560" msid="83892632" hostid="261"></div>Publicly disavowing QAnon whilst continuing to advocate for some of the conspiracy theory's nonsensical beliefs is an oft-used "camouflage" tactic by the far-right, Media Matters president Angela Carusone told Insider.Some candidates might be doing so to appear more palatable to a wider audience and to avoid "political blowback" while maintaining their base of QAnon donors, he said."When candidates walk back their QAnon commitment, I think you have to view that with real skepticism," Carusone advised. "They do things in a careful and concerted way."<h2>QAnon is a political tool to raise money and attract voters</h2>While some candidates publicly disavow QAnon in a bid to appeal to a more mainstream audience, others subtly signal their support for it as a means to bring conspiracy theorists into the fold, to donate and vote for them."Many don't even mention Q directly," Jack Bratich, an associate professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University, told Insider. "It's become a kind of background story for adherents, who can signal to each other that they are part of this shadowy movement."Insider identified around a dozen candidates who have expressed their support for QAnon in less than explicit ways, via retweets, subtle nods to slogans, and the use of specific hashtags. These include Steve Von Loor, Tricia Flanagan, Sam Peters, and Anthony Sabatini.<div type="image" title="qanon sign dc" height="1000" width="1333" msid="83892633" hostid="261"></div>Several candidates included the hashtag #WWG1WGA in their tweets. Others included the letter "Q" in response to posts from QAnon-affiliated accounts.Tricia Flanagan, for example, <a href="https://twitter.com/NewDayForNJ/status/1246463861059919872">wrote "ThanQ"</a> in response to a QAnon account. Sam Peters used the <a href="https://twitter.com/SamPetersNevada/status/1290044418636935169">#QArmy hashtag</a> in August 2020."I'm certain that there are some of these individuals that don't actually care or believe in it, but they see it as an opportunity," Carusone said."I think there are some candidates who are certainly just being political," Carusone went on. "They're crassly seeing a potential political donor base or power base."<h2>QAnon is 'on the rise' in congressional <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics">politics</keyword></h2>It's clear that the influence of QAnon in congressional politics is "on the rise," Carusone said. "And they're aggressively moving to take over parts of the Republican party, local committees, school boards, local races too."Bratich said it shows how deeply QAnon has "settled" into the Republican party. "As a movement, it has expanded to try and take over the party," he said. "It's not central to the GOP but it's no longer a marginal component either."QAnon is now a major force in American politics, Carusone agreed. "And, basically, I think we're kind of screwed."Here is a full list of all 36 QAnon supporters who are running for Congress in 2022. <ul><li>Josh Barnett, Arizona </li><li>Daniel Wood, Arizona</li><li>Jamie Byers, California</li><li>Mike Cargile, California</li><li>Ignacio Cruz, California</li><li>Peter Liu, California</li><li>Omar Navarro, California</li><li>Buzz Patterson, California</li><li>Lauren Boebert, Colorado</li><li>Darren Aquino, Florida</li><li>Vic DeGrammont, Florida</li><li>Luis Miguel, Florida</li><li>Christine Quinn, Florida</li><li>Anthony Sabatini, Florida</li><li>Christine Scott, Florida</li><li>Reba Sherrill, Florida</li><li>Lavern Spicer, Florida</li><li>Darlene Swaffar, Florida</li><li>Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia</li><li>Bobby Piton, Illinois</li><li>Philanise White, Illinois</li><li>Jon McGreevey, Maryland</li><li>Danielle Stella, Minnesota</li><li>Sam Peters, Nevada</li><li>Mindy Robinson, Nevada</li><li>Tricia Flanagan, New Jersey</li><li>Billy Prempeh, New Jersey</li><li>Antoine Tucker, New York</li><li>Steve Von Loor, North Carolina</li><li>JR Majewski, Ohio</li><li>Mark Pukita, Ohio</li><li>Joe Rae Perkins, Oregon</li><li>Bobby Jeffries, Pennsylvania</li><li>Robert Lancia, Rhode Island</li><li>Mayra Flores, Texas</li><li>Jonny Teague, Texas</li></ul>

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