you ve got a narrative and you re trying to push it. and what is that narrative? we the narrative is everything it s fraudit. it s fake. i will be damned if when i am governor we are going to have another election run this way. i m afraid for our future. reporter: tyler montag is an arizona republican strategist who fears the damage of his party s election-denying candidates. they have a losing message. they are strongly identified with the conspiracy that that the election was stolen from trump. and a strong majority of the voting public does not believe this. hey, everybody. i just went behind enemy lines. reporter: ron watkins, the man many internet sleuths believe is the q behind the qanon conspiracy theory, is another denier of the truth. a long shot republican hopeful for arizona s first congressional district. the first-time candidate just moved to arizona to run for office. what do you think happened in november 2020? president trump did win the election
reporter: a cornerstone of lake s campaign? baseless fraud claims raised by the republican-led sham review of maricopa county s 2020 presidential election. the system is corrupt. have you followed what s happened in our election here? absolutely. i covered the audit. reporter: relentlessly, repeating misinformation. do you think it was the right thing to do to delete a bunch of million files the day before the audit? that was roundly debunked. not by the press but by the maricopa county recorder s office. okay well, you are buying into everything they say. these are the same people who did not want this forensic audit. i know what you guys are trying to do. you don t give a damn about our elections. you have got a narrative, and you are trying to push it. and what is that narrative? we the narrative is everything it s fraudit. it s fake. i will be damned if when i am governor, we are going to have another election run this way. i m afraid for our future. repor
office. okay. well, you are buying into everything they say. these are the same people who did not want this forensic audit. i know what you guys are trying to do. you don t give a damn about our elections. you have got a narrative and you are trying to push it. and what is that narrative? the the narrative is everything it s fraudit. it s fake. first of all, she was a a allegedly, you know, anchor or newscaster or something, you know, i don t know how to even wrap my mind around that. um, this is superdepressing. i mean, i don t know if she believes that. or just if she knows this will get her that bunch you know, help her in the primary. and she is willing to be a shiny, happy liar. you know, anderson, couple things come to mind. one is something that i said to you in our conversation before the election. country not right. country not right. our country s not right. um, but given that, what is even more depressing to me is we have
candidates in arizona was superdepressing. i just want to play one thing that one of them said. the system is corrupt. have you not followed what s happening in our election here? absolutely. i covered the audit. do you think it was the right thing to do to delete a bunch of million files the day before the audit? that was roundly debunked. not by the press but by the maricopa county recorder s office. okay. well, you are buying into everything they say. these are the same people who did not want this forensic audit. i know what you guys are trying to do. you don t give a damn about our elections. you ve got a narrative and you re trying to push it. and what is that narrative? the the narrative is everything it s fraudit. it s fake. first of all, she was a allegedly, you know, an anchor or newscaster or something, which you know, i don t know how to even wrap my mind around that. this is super depressing. i mean, i don t know if she believes that. or just if she