“I have a strong chance to win out there,” he said.
Alongside various Arizona elected officials, Watkins will speak at a QAnon conference in Las Vegas this weekend.Īnd, so far, Watkins appears to be serious about his candidacy, claiming to the Arizona Republic that he has an address in Sedona and that he has vague (and so far unproved) family ties to Arizona. But over the past few years, he and his father have embraced their status as celebrities within the movement. Watkins told New Times in a phone message that he is "not involved in that project." He denied his association with QAnon, claiming "zero involvement" with the conspiracy. For years, he ran the often-extremist message board 8chan (now rebranded as "8kun") alongside his father, Jim Watkins, who still owns the site. Watkins and his father are believed by some to have posted the initial messages from “Q” on the forum, which are central to the QAnon conspiracy theory. Watkins announced his official departure from 8chan last November, though some experts doubted that he was actually ending his role there, and his current involvement remains unclear.
Watkins’ association with QAnon is hardly a rumor, however.
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