Richmond, VA – Hung Cao keeps making national news for his extreme comments, and this time CNN highlighted his history of downplaying the results of the 2020 election.  

Cao has called for January 6 insurrectionists who went to jail to be compensated. He has cast doubt on the results of the 2020 election. During the U.S. Senate debate last week, Hung Cao denied that January 6 led to the death of several law enforcement officers – including one Virginia officer who died.  

“Hung Cao has spread baseless lies about the 2020 election and is so extreme he thinks that January 6 insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol deserve to be compensated,” said DPVA Chairwoman Susan Swecker. “This November, hard-working Virginians will show Hung Cao the door because of his out-of-touch agenda.”  

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CNN: These 2024 Republican candidates disputed the 2020 election results 
Daniel Dale  
October 5, 2024 

• It’s not just Donald Trump and JD Vance. Numerous other 2020 election deniers are running in 2024 elections. 
• At least 23 of this year’s 51 Republican nominees for governor, state elections chief or the US Senate have rejected or contested the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s 2020 victory over Trump. 
• When Hung Cao, a retired Navy captain, was a candidate for the House of Representatives in 2022, he was asked by Virginia news outlet Loudoun Now whether Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Cao responded by baselessly casting doubt on the legitimacy of Biden’s vote total. 
• “Again, I’m going to tell you it’s very hard to understand how a person who hid in their basement the entire time got more votes than Barack Obama. It’s just very hard for me to understand that,” Cao said. 
• He had made similar comments at a fundraiser during that race, which he lost. And when asked at a 2022 debate whether he believed the 2020 election was “free, fair and untainted” and Biden was “duly elected,” Cao did not answer directly – instead stating the fact that “Joe Biden is the president of the United States” and saying that high food and gas prices proved it. 
• Cao provided another similar answer when CNN asked him in July 2024 whether he accepts that Biden was the legitimate winner. Declining to address the legitimacy of Biden’s victory, Cao said via email, “Joe Biden is the President, and he’s responsible for everything that has gone wrong in this country and around the world since he took office.” When pressed for a direct answer, he added only this: “Joe Biden was certified the winner of the election, as President Trump was in 2016.” 
• Cao is challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine. 

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