Nevada Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Already a Skilled Liar, Refuses to Acknowledge Biden is the President

Dean Heller, a GOP campaigner who is moving successful Nevada’s gubernatorial race, refused to admit that President Joe Biden is, successful fact, the president, a motion that the Republican Party refuses to fto the “Big Lie” of predetermination fraud go.

“I inactive cognize who the president is, but I bash judge we person a occupation with elections,” Heller said successful an interrogation astatine the Washoe County Republican headquarters.

Heller besides declined to admit erstwhile President Donald Trump’s relation successful stirring his supporters to onslaught the United States Capitol connected January 6, saying helium doesn’t blasted Trump for the event.

“I deliberation what was incorrect was evidently erstwhile they went into the Capitol building,” helium said. “They made those decisions connected their own. I bash not blasted the president. I’ve seen the videos. I’ve seen what helium said during the rallies, during the protests. And I deliberation that there’s nary mode successful my sentiment that helium was liable for the actions of these individuals of going wrong that Capitol gathering and doing what they did.”

Heller made his remarks contempt the information that Trump was impeached for inciting an insurrection against Congress and continues to look lawsuits from individuals, including lawmakers, who were affected by the attack, which took spot connected the mendacious premise that the predetermination was stolen.

Despite the deficiency of grounds that the 2020 wide predetermination was fraudulent, Heller insisted that election integrity is simply a bipartisan concern, drafting a mendacious equivalency Democratic protests implicit alleged Russian predetermination meddling and collusion successful 2016 with Republican accusations of predetermination fraud.

“We’re talking astir changing the result of an election. We’re talking astir changing by manipulating the process,” helium said. “So some sides thought that their campaigner had won. That was my point, that predetermination fraud is simply a bipartisan issue. Both sides are acrophobic astir their candidates and the result of these elections. And that’s my point, Whether it’s Russian collusion oregon its ballot harvesting, it does alteration the results of elections if it is abused.”

Heller insisted that “the past clip Nevada had a safe, unafraid election” was during his tenure arsenic Secretary of State betwixt 1995 and 2007.

Heller antecedently served successful the United States Senate but failed to triumph re-election successful 2018 aft serving a implicit six-year term.