Election deniers seek to oust Kentucky's Republican secretary of state
Tomorrow is primary day for some key Kentucky elections, including Secretary of State. We've all learned how important that role is. And where the Republican incumbent, Michael Adams, faces a tough challenge from two GOP opponents, and both of them are running on election fraud claims. Adams took office in 2020, worked with the Democratic governor to expand early voting and mail-in voting during the pandemic. Now he's vowed that he won't play ball with election deniers, saying, quote, if you cave and get into these conspiracy theories, all it does is validate them. NBC's Jane Tim has been reporting on this primary race and is here with me now. What do we know about these other two candidates? You know, these candidates are running on just a lot of conspiracy theories and voter fraud claims.
Stephen Nipper, who's part of the leading contender against Adams, says that he personally logged in and saw the election fraud happening online. I mean, really sort of baseless claims that he cannot prove. And is arguing that this is sort of why he should be put in this position and arguing for specific policy changes, like pulling out of an interstate database that helps secretaries of state keep their voter rolls up to date. But what was most interesting to me is how Michael Adams was essentially so candid where he was like, to do my job right, I have to ignore these theories. I can't get involved. And I'm just going to just stay out of the nonsense, he told me. Absolutely incredibly candid about the realities of the sort of Republican primary environment right now.
That to do the job as he says he's taken an oath to do, he thinks he might lose his job.
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