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From the Daily Mail:
QAnon follower becomes official Republican Senate candidate in Oregon
The winner of a Republican Senate primary in Oregon is a believer in the QAnon conspiracy theory - and made her support of it a central theme in her campaign.
The candidate, Jo Rae Perkins, is a former Republican chairwoman of Linn County, located south of Oregon's capital, Salem.
In a four-way race among Republican candidates, Perkins was hovering around 50 per cent, meaning she will be on the general election ballot against Democratic incumbent Sen. Jeff Merkley, who holds an advantage in the mostly-blue state, Yahoo News reported.
Perkins celebrated in a victory speech by referring to herself as a 'Q person' and then repeating a slogan used by followers of the conspiracy theory: 'Where we go one, we go all.'
Perkins made no secret of her belief in QAnon - a conspiracy theory that revolves around 'deep state' officials and global elites killing children, with President Trump and a high-ranking intelligence official dubbed 'Q' - who could be Trump himself - working to thwart the plot.
It has similar outlines to Pizzagate, a conspiracy theory that grew in the deep reaches of the right-wing internet in 2016 that said Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton ran a sex trafficking ring in the basement of a D.C. pizza parlor.
The bizarre theory got started using references from her campaign chairman John Podesta's leaked emails.
The pizza place has no basement, nor was Clinton involved in any such plot.
But allies of Trump on the right, including ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's son, pushed it into prominence.
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