Before Elon Musk stormed the gates of Twitter headquarters as its new owner, a common and justifiable complaint from several conservative Twitter users, especially Republican candidates, was that their accounts seemed to be especially prone to censorship actions just before an election, with no real recourse available.
That was evidenced most recently with Republican Arizona Secretary of State hopeful Mark Finchem, an Arizona state lawmaker whose Twitter account was recently suspended and reinstated in record time with a little help from his friends — and from Twitter’s new overlord.
In a desperate email to his supporters on Monday, Finchem implored his supporters to mount a “pressure campaign” on Twitter to get Musk’s attention to help unsuspend him, presumably betting on Musk staying true to his word that Twitter will embrace true freedom of speech.
“Twitter has blocked my account from speaking truth with one week left until the election. They are trying to put their thumb on the scales of this election. Tag Elon Musk and tell him to unban me right now. I am the Secretary of State nominee in a swing state running against the criminal Soros-funded candidate,” Finchem’s email read, in part, according to the Washington Examiner.
It wasn’t made clear in any reporting or in Finchem’s email exactly why he was suspended on the platform.
Jenna Ellis, a former lawyer for President Donald Trump and influential conservative on Twitter, received Finchem’s email and immediately posted a screenshot of it. Ellis tagged Musk in her tweet, saying the suspension of candidates a week before an election isn’t fair.