An armada of 2020 election deniers is running in major battleground races. Lots of the candidates are winning GOP nominations.

The big picture: 54 of the 87 GOP nominees for battleground state offices with a say in election certification have questioned the 2020 presidential election results, The Washington Post reports.

• Those offices include governor and lieutenant governor, secretary of state and attorney general, and members of Congress.

🇺🇸 The list of 2020 deniers includes:

• 12 of 13 candidates in Arizona.
• 13 of 19 in Georgia.
• 10 of 16 in Michigan.
• 5 of 9 in Nevada.
• 1o of 19 in Pennsylvania.
• 4 of 11 in Wisconsin.

Nationwide, more than half of GOP primary winners have questioned the 2020 results, The Post reports.

What's next: Trump's most prominent GOP critic — Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) faces a primary tomorrow. She trails in the polls.

The Justice Department is targeting the cash that Jan. 6 rioters have made after the insurrection, AP reports.

• Federal authorities seized tens of thousands of dollars from a defendant who sold his footage from Jan. 6.
• A Florida man’s plea deal allows the U.S. government to collect profits from any book he gets published over the next five years.
• Prosecutors want a Maine man who raised more than $20,000 from supporters to surrender some of the money because a taxpayer-funded public defender is representing him.

Why it matters: At sentencing, rioters often ask for leniency on the grounds that they already have experienced severe consequences for their crimes.

1. A year after the collapse of Kabul, former Afghanistan envoy Zalmay Khalilzad told Axios World author Dave Lawler that the last chance for a power-sharing deal vanished when then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Go deeper.
2. Former President Trump claimed the FBI seized two of his active passports while executing a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. Earlier today, he said the temperature "has to be brought down" after a surge of violent threats against federal law enforcement. Go deeper.
3. Rudy Giuliani has been informed he is officially a target of an investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election being conducted by an Atlanta prosecutor, The New York Times reports.
4. The Iranian government denied any involvement in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie. The 24-year-old suspect, Hadi Matar, has been charged with attempted murder. Go deeper.

Surprise, surprise: Alabama tops the AP's preseason Top 25.

• It's the seventh time the Crimson Tide has been preseason No. 1 in head coach Nick Saban's 15 years as head coach.

Eleven preseason No. 1 teams went on to finish top-ranked since 1950.

• The most recent: Alabama in 2017.