Council candidate repeated election fraud claims
An Oklahoma City Council candidate acknowledged Friday he posted a #STOPTHESTEAL2020 graphic on social media referencing Donald Trump's unfounded presidential election fraud claims and warning "this will be handled."
Joshua Debolt also acknowledged he has never voted in a municipal election, including the 2017 race for the Ward 1 seat he is seeking.
Debolt said the graphic was one he found elsewhere and copied onto his Facebook page in November. He said he thought at the time the president's fraud claims deserved to be investigated.
However, the graphic ominously read, "This will not be allowed to happen. One way or another, this will be handled.
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As we head into another holiday, local leaders are warning against large family gatherings without masks.
A little over a week before Thanksgiving, Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt held a rare press conference, urging residents to stay home and distance in the next 10 days. He referenced a rowing practice a Power 10 where the team is told to push as hard as they can for 10 more rows. We are sitting at all-time highs that are pushing our health care workers to their limits. And now we have another of the virus’ favorite events looming right ahead: a holiday, Holt said. In the two weeks after Memorial Day, cases jumped 400 percent. In the two weeks after July 4, cases doubled. In the two weeks after Labor Day, cases doubled. Thanksgiving wiped out our Power 10 gains.
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Concerns grow over holiday surge in Oklahoma as record 184 COVID-19 deaths reported in past 7 days Share Updated: 5:16 PM CST Dec 24, 2020 Share Updated: 5:16 PM CST Dec 24, 2020
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Show Transcript LOOK AT THE NUMBERS AND DIRE PLEAS TONIGHT. REPORTER: THIS CHRISTMAS EVE, MORE THAN 3,200 NEW COVID CASES REPORTED. IN THE PAST SEVEN DAYS WE REPORT REPORTED A RECORD 24,300. MORE THAN THE ENTIRE MONTH OF A RECORD NUMBER OF PATIENTS IN HOSPITALS, WITH MULTIPLE REGIONS NEARING TIER OF THE STATE S STATE S SURGE PLAN, THE HIGHEST LEVEL, AND A STAGGERING 184 OKLAHOMANS REPORTED DEAD OF COVID IN THE LAST SEVEN DAYS. WE ARE JUST NOW SEEING THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THE POST-THANKSGIVING SURGE. I THINK AFTER CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS WE RE VERY, VERY CONCERNED. AGAIN, CHRISTMAS IS ONE OF THOSE HOLIDAY EVENTS THAT BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER INDOORS FOR EVENTS LIKE FAMILY EVENTS AT HOME, AT PLACES OF WORSHIP AND THOSE ARE PLACES WHE
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