During his recent stop in North Carolina, former President Donald Trump continued to make unfounded claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential elections.Many Republican candidates heading into Tuesday’s primary list election integrity among their top issues.Almost all of the North Carolinian GOP candidates WXII 12 News interviewed in recent weeks said they support Trump and hope he runs again in 2024.But they don’t all agree with his unfounded claim that the race was stolen.Candidates fall into three categories when asked if they’d support Trump’s claim.Those who said they are certain include congressional candidate Andriani running in House District 9 representing Randolph County, and Peter Boykin, a candidate for state House District 63.Mary Ann Contogiannis, running in North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District, said she’s not sure.”I think it’s just really difficult to say whether or not to know the election was stolen or not,” she said.Some candidates want further investigation, such as Guilford County Republican Gerry Austin, also running in District 6.”I don’t know that we will ever know,” Austin said.And Ed Priola, who is running for the North Carolina House in Alamance County, believes there needs to be an investigation.There are Republicans who reject Trump’s unfounded claims of fraud, including David Ashley, who is running for the North Carolina House in Randolph County.”I have never seen any evidence or heard of any evidence or read about any evidence that the election is stolen,” he said.Caswell County Republican Laura Pichardo, who is running in the primary for North Carolina’s Congressional District 6, said she hasn’t either.”I believe that sometimes people get upset when things don’t get their way,” she said. “I personally don’t believe that it was stolen from him.”Jamestown Republican Marvin Boguslawski, also running in the 6th District, didn’t like the results of 2020, but said “I don’t believe it was stolen. There’s lots of inconsistencies in the voting but in the end, the law is the law.”Some candidates told WXII 12 News that they have evidence the election was stolen, such as Congressional candidate Courtney Geels, running to represent Alamance County.”I don’t believe that it was a fair and secure election in 2020,” she said. “I can show you the proof of that.”Geels said her husband found 100,000 questionable votes while working on a voter fraud case in Georgia, but she didn’t provide any evidence to support her claim.”That case was voluntarily dismissed by Trump, so no one really ever heard the truth,” she said. Brian Biggs, a North Carolina House candidate in Randolph County, said he suspects fraud because voting numbers in the state didn’t add up.”We had some counties in North Carolina that had 105% participation,” he said. “That’s impossible, because you only have 100% of eligible voters.”Peter Boykin, the Alamance County state house candidate made the same claim.”Regions where 105% of the people came out and voted. The statistics doesn’t add up,” he said.He said the information is online, but not available on sites controlled by the mainstream media.Congressional candidate Francisco Rios said he believes there was fraud but admits he cannot substantiate it. “I don’t have any evidence either that it was happening,” he said.Guilford County Republican Lee Haywood, running for Congress in North Carolina’s 6th District, said it’s time to move on from the 2020 election.”President Biden is going to be here for two or three more years and we’re just going to have to live with it,” he said.Judging by a new poll, most Republican voters expect fraud in this year’s midterm elections. The survey was conducted for the John Locke Foundation, a conservative group based in Raleigh.Sixty percent of those polled said they don’t expect free and fair elections this year. Thirty percent said yes, and 10 percent said they were unsure.Congressman Richard Hudson who is running to represent Randolph County in the primary, supported a legal challenge to overturn the 2020 presidential election and objected to counting the electoral college votes Jan. 6, 2021.Hudson said what happened that day was a travesty, but he doesn’t support the Congressional investigation.”Anyone who assaulted a police officer … I’m all for getting to the bottom of that,” he said. “But this commission that was created by Speaker Pelosi is a charade.”Most Republican candidates interviewed said they don’t support the congressional investigation either because it’s too partisan or they believe it’s time for the country to move forward.