WASHINGTON – The organizer of Saturday’s rally, aimed at recasting Jan. 6 as something other than the violent insurrection it was, immediately appears as an unlikely messenger for the Republican far-right.
Until Matt Braynard emerged as the face of a demonstration, staged to support hundreds arrested in the Capitol riots, the Republican operative had a relatively modest public profile, though a recent spate of false voter fraud claims has gained him financial support.
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In court records, where Braynard is listed as a paid witness involving alleged voting irregularities in Arizona, he includes a biography identifying himself as a principal of External Affairs Inc., since 2004.
He said the firm has represented more than 200 candidates for public office, “from president to town council,” providing fundraising, polling and “voter targeting” assistance. The court record in the Arizona case indicates that he was being paid a fee of $40,000.
An entity associated with Braynard called the Voter Integrity Project created in the aftermath of the election, reported raising $675,492 to fund so-called anti-voter fraud initiatives. The amount surpassed a reported goal of $500,000.
About the same time, Braynard referred to the Voter Integrity Project’s fundraising efforts as a model he used to re-launch his Look Ahead America group that is driving the Saturday rally.
“I pitched this organization to some of the biggest and best-known donors and voices on the right, many of them with names you would recognize,” Braynard said in a statement posted on the group’s website. “But all of them blew me off because they didn’t understand the importance of our mission and the need for an operation like this to counter the hundreds of millions of dollars being given to progressive non-profits by globalists and tech billionaires.”
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