{"id":30434,"date":"2021-06-04T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=30434"},"modified":"2021-06-08T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T15:40:57","slug":"givesendgo-data-koch-family-member-donated-to-crowdfunding-campaign-claiming-election-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2021\/06\/04\/givesendgo-data-koch-family-member-donated-to-crowdfunding-campaign-claiming-election-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"GiveSendGo data: Koch family member donated to crowdfunding campaign claiming election fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:18px\">By Brenna Smith<br><em>USA Today<\/em><br>June 4, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The range of donors to the&nbsp;GiveSendGo voter fraud campaigns reflect surveys showing that many Republicans are skeptical of the election results.&nbsp;A quarter of Americans&nbsp;think Trump is the \u201ctrue president,\u201d according to a Reuters\/Ipsos&nbsp;poll, and a Monmouth University poll found that&nbsp;65% of Republicans&nbsp;believed&nbsp;Biden&#8217;s victory was the result of voter fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stetson University Law Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/faculty\/home\/ciara-torres-spelliscy.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ciara Torres-Spelliscy<\/a> said that\u2019s emblematic of the working class and the upper class of the Republican Party buying into voter fraud narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis has infected their thinking in a really damaging way to the legitimacy of our democratic processes,\u201d Torres-Spelliscy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 11.5px;line-height:18px;padding-bottom:15px;\">This article was originally published on the <em>USA Today<\/em> website on June 4, 2021, with the headline, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/givesendgo-data-koch-family-member-donated-to-crowdfunding-campaign-claiming-election-fraud\/ar-AAKHnov?li=BBnbfcL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GiveSendGo data: Koch family member donated to crowdfunding campaign claiming election fraud<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the Koch family, one of the most influential power brokers in American politics, donated to a crowdfunding campaign that peddled misinformation about the presidential election well after such claims had been debunked, according to data provided to USA TODAY by a whistleblower site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[394],"class_list":["post-30434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-news","tag-ciara-torres-spelliscy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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