Robert Clements (born December 11, 1950) is an American politician and businessman. Clements was born in

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. He graduated from Elmwood High School in

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in 1969. Clements received his bachelor's degree in 1973 from

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. Clements is a banker at America Exchange Bank in Elmwood, Nebraska. On February 6, 2017, Clements was appointed to the

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replacing

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who resigned. He is involved with the

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. Clements became a leading state election denier by embracing "the Big Lie" ( President Trump's false claims of a stolen election) following the 2020 presidential contest by insisting Donald Trump actually won. Clements signed a public letter demanding a "forensic audit of every state election" similar to the fruitless 2021 Maricopa County presidential ballot audit. That same year, he joined a fringe right-wing group, the Nebraska Freedom Coalition, in asking for a state-backed effort to audit the 2020 Nebraska election results, specifically in Douglas and Sarpy counties, despite no evidence of fraud. Clements claimed that he was baffled how both Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Rep.

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could win in Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District, despite the fact the district experienced a similar split in 2008.'Nebraska state senator calls for 50-state audit of presidential election,' Omaha World-Herald, Martha Stoddard, Oct. 5, 2021

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