1. In 2020, Jim Marchant lost his US House election to Democrat Steven Horsford, while Trump lost his reelection bid in the concurrent presidential race.
17 Facts About Jim Marchant
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Jim Marchant subsequently announced his candidacy for Nevada Secretary of State in 2022.
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Jim Marchant was the president of the America First Secretary of State Coalition, a group of Republican 2022 Secretary of State candidates supporting the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
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Jim Marchant repeatedly said that he would not have certified President Joe Biden's victory in Nevada if he had been Secretary of State at the time of the election, and that he would consider doing the same in 2024 if Biden carried the state again.
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Jim Marchant tied himself closely to QAnon, a disproven far-right conspiracy theory, attending an October 2021 conference associated with the movement in Las Vegas.
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Jim Marchant was a candidate for the United States Senate in the 2024 election in Nevada, a seat held by incumbent Democrat Jacky Rosen.
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Jim Marchant was born on May 28,1956, in Gainesville, Florida.
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Jim Marchant graduated from Troy University with a degree in criminal justice, and moved to Nevada from Florida in 2005.
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Jim Marchant worked for the family business from 1978 until 1984, when he left to found his own business.
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In 2015, Marchant threatened to run against then-Speaker John Hambrick; he ultimately decided to challenge Glenn E Trowbridge instead.
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In 2018, Jim Marchant was unopposed in the Republican primary, but narrowly lost his re-election campaign for Assembly District 37 to Shea Backus, a Democrat, by a vote of 14,222 to 14,087.
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Jim Marchant ran for the US House to represent Nevada's 4th congressional district in 2020.
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Jim Marchant's request was denied by a Clark County District Court judge on November 20,2020.
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Jim Marchant was a candidate for Secretary of State of Nevada in the 2022 election.
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Jim Marchant said that if he is elected Secretary of State, he would support the sending of alternate electors from Nevada after the 2024 presidential election.
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Jim Marchant told attendees that on November 4,2020, the day after he lost his bid for Nevada's 4th congressional district, he was in his hotel room when he heard a knock at his door.
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Jim Marchant ran for a seat in the United States Senate In 2024, he Lost the Republican primary too Sam Brown.