reporter: and mark finchium who praised he was an oath keeper and now says he s running for secretary of state. donald trump won. reporter: he s echoed qanon-type conspiracies about election officials. there s a lot of people involved in a pet file network in the distribution of children and, unfortunately, there s a whole lot of elected officials that are involved in that. reporter: and he continues to falsely talk about the illegitimacy of the election in arizona. i look to the day when we set aside an irredeembly flawed election. that s the election of 2020. with all the evidence that we have, the arizona election should be decertified by the, with cause, by the legislature. reporter: that s part of a national trend. a washington post tally finding 163 republicans who very many braced trump s false claims are running for statewide positions that would give them authority over the administration of elections.