Saturday, October 16, 2021
Ardent Trump admirer
QAnon supporters apply for congress
Ron Watkins: a previously unknown name in the political world. But that could change soon. The supporter of the conspiracy group QAnon wants to run for a seat in the US Congress in order to carry the “fight” to Washington – as the ex-president says: “Trump’s election was stolen.”
Website operator Ron Watkins, linked to the far right conspiracy movement QAnon, has announced his candidacy for Congress. In the next year’s elections for the House of Representatives in Arizona, he wants to run for the Republican Party, Watkins said on the Telegram messenger service. The parliamentary seat he wants to run for is currently held by a Democrat politician from President Joe Biden.
Watkins is an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump. “President Trump’s election was stolen – not just in Arizona but in other states as well,” he told Telegram. “We have to take this fight to Washington, DC to vote out all the filthy Democrats who stole our republic.”
Trump has not recognized his electoral defeat by Biden in the presidential election to this day. The 75-year-old continues to spread the false claim that he was deprived of a second term through massive electoral fraud. The right-wing populist, who is still very popular with the party base, repeatedly flirts publicly with a possible candidacy in the 2024 presidential election.
Watkins and his father Jim became known on the Internet as operators of the image board “8chan” and its successor “8kun”. Since 2017, bizarre conspiracy theories have been spread in the forums under the pseudonym “Q”. In the meantime, the so-called QAnon movement has developed from this, which has hundreds of thousands of followers in the USA. The US Federal FBI said last year that it was monitoring QAnon as one of several potentially dangerous fringe right-wing groups.