Posted on 09/17/2021 12:55:53 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
The best indication that Larry Elder was going down in the California recall wasn’t the polling, although that all swung the wrong way in the final weeks, but his suggestion late in the campaign that Democrats were going to steal the election.
Preemptive excuse-making isn’t a sign of great confidence — the winning side never complains of cheating.
Sure enough, incumbent Gov. Gavin Newsom cruised to a victory made a little easier, as it happens, by Elder’s insistence that Republicans were robbed in 2020 and about to be robbed again.
To his credit, Elder graciously conceded on Tuesday night, but his talk of stolen elections was arguably his biggest misstep of the campaign.
His landslide defeat is the latest evidence that the idea the 2020 presidential election was stolen is poison for Republicans.
It’s not as though Elder, a talk radio show host with no political experience who was running in a deep blue state and got massively outspent, was going to have an easy time regardless. But when he got pushed by President Donald Trump supporters into endorsing the stolen-election narrative, he ran directly into a Newsom political buzz saw linking him with Trump and the Jan. 6 riot.
In the Georgia special Senate elections earlier this year, Trump himself divided the party and suppressed GOP turnout at the margins by trying to make the election about November 2020 as much as possible and accusing Republicans who didn’t go along with his allegations of partisan treason.
There may be other costs to come, perhaps up to and including the 2024
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Lowry is such a loser.
Multiple ballots received by single voter might have been a clue. Voters told they had already cast ballots was another. Thanks for playing, Rich Lowry.
I have heard his name before, but is Lowry a never Trumper? Sure sounds like it. What are we to do, BOHICA? If the rats 🐀 know they can get away with it again, we are likely to take it in the shorts, from now until dooms day.
POS A-Hole.....
Go to hell...
I cannot stand this low T cretin
Just ignore the cheating and let them get away with it. Great strategy Larry. Losers like this loser are why America wants Trump instead.
Rich Lowry that is....LOSER!
His name wasn’t on the famous National Review cover but he is one of the main cheerleaders for Never Trump.
If he is a never Trumper, then I don’t care what the rat 🐀 bastard thinks about anything. 😀🤗
You’re one dumb #, Lowry — seriously.
“Recall candidate Larry Elder – with an assist from former President Donald Trump – depressed GOP turnout in California’s recall race by raising the prospect of voter fraud before the election, a Republican consultant said Wednesday.
A day after Gov. Gavin Newsom won a clear victory in the recall election, advisers for Newsom, Elder and fellow Republican candidate Kevin Faulconer joined the Sacramento Press Club in a virtual discussion to dissect the race.
Ron Nehring, a former chair of the California GOP and adviser to Faulconer, pointed to a page on Elder’s website that, prior to the election, presumed that Newsom won the recall because of an influx of voter fraud. It asked voters to sign a petition asking for a special session of the Legislature to investigate. Nehring said such a suggestion was “astonishing” and discouraged Republicans from voting.”
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article254265763.html
California. Where Democrats and GOPe are besties.
The majority of Californians believed Elder was a black white supremacist.
They also stole the recall election.
In one week at 1 PM AZ releases their audit report, things that make you go mmmmmmm
These elitist RINO’s better wake up and smell the coffee. They are no longer in charge of the GOP or the Conservative movement. Their days of neocon failures and policies are done. We are now the MAGA party, and what they have to say while eating Brie and drinking cocktails is no longer relevant. Rich Lowery and his ilk are the albatross around the neck of the GOP, not the patriots who try to stand up to Election fraud and malfeasance by the swamp creatures who are now in control of the highest levels of the Government.
Really want to end their game?
Repeal the 17th Amendment via a constitutional convention. Eliminate the Senior executive service.
But was it really a victory, or just another rigged election in a one party state?
How might it have been rigged?
Millions of illegal immigrants are automatically registered to vote when they get their driver's license. California sends out tens of millions of mail-in ballots with no voter ID, no chain of custody, no signature verification. There is no way to identify illegal immigrants, fake ballots, and fake names.
California has ballot harvesting. Democrats have perfected the art of providing “extra” ballots as needed.
You can even print out your own ballot on your home printer.
Easy to vote. Impossible to provide voter integrity.
California has an "audit proof" election system. Maybe the Democrat communists over estimated the turnout numbers to oust Newsom.
Stolen ELECTIONS are the REAL albatross.
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