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Conspiracy thinking edges into Olympic Peninsula politics
By AP News Staff
FILE - Crowds arrive for the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
PORT ANGELES, Wash. - Last year, right wing conspiracy theories from QAnon were injected into the U.S. Presidential race. This year conspiratorial thinking is creeping into small town races around the country, including several on the northern Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.
A QAnon apologist named Donnie Hall recruits and trains candidates through a group he co-founded called the Independent Advisory Association. They’re what I call citizen candidates. They don’t have a lot of experience. We have to tell them the basics, Hall told KUOW.
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