But then the QAnon candidates started winning. Jo Rae Perkins, an outspoken QAnon devotee in Oregon, won the Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat, meaning she would be the rare QAnon believer to make it to the general election. That presented a problem for Republican leaders in Washington, D.C. Perkins’s win elevated her from the countless other eccentrics of all types who run for office every cycle, only to vanish from public view after losing their primaries.
