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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If we could cut out opinions from NYC, the common sense of the nation would increase significantly.
Ok, we were traitors now we are lunatics.
I wish that were true. Trump should have started a new MAGA Party 6 months ago...
“ Preemptive excuse-making isn’t a sign of great confidence — the winning side never complains of cheating.”
Lowry has a short memory. There were complaints about voter Democrat fraud before the 2016 election, but Trump won. Don’t complaints about “voter Intimidation come from the Democrats constantly? Isn’t “voter intimidation” cheating?
The biggest sign that Elder would lose is that the election was in California.
Just days before Arizona’s forensic audit release might prove to be a case of bad timing?
Since it is supposedly impossible to prove a negative, Lowry is wrong. Larry Elder’s loss could be due to a dozen reasons.
WHY should anyone believe ANYTHING the alphabet channels blare out???
ABC EARLY AM news crawl says Washington beat NY Giants 30-29 in MONDAY NIGHT THRILLER........
Pretty sure that game was THURSDAY NIGHT-—less than 12 hours ago.
That network is notorious for spelling/grammar errors...
NOW—They don’t even know what day it is!!!!!
Sure cannot trust them!!!!
Rich Lowery...praises a republican for graciously loosing...nuff said.
When Elder said Biden won fair and square, that gave the green light to the Democrat machine to pull out all the stops on the voter fraud machine. He basically said, “I am not going to contest a highly rigged election like Biden ran.”
Guess what...we had industrial scale voter fraud again and guess what...know one is going to look into it.
This is how the republic was lost. How to get it back... focus like a laser in every state on voter fraud.
A Senate of the states was the Framers’ keystone to good government.
The 17th must go.
Article V.
Since the election was SO OBVIOUSLY stolen — they did it with utter contempt for the country — and since there’s been zero effective correction and no punishment whatsoever — we no longer live in a representative republic with individual rights. That’s kaput, finished, ended, terminated, extinguished, dead, history
Mail in balloting = guaranteed Rat Party “victory”.
ok for the rats to bitch and complain that it was stolen from them
Has Lowry ever interviewed Ruby Freeman?
Because it was stolen?
It’s lunacy to think unverified mail in voting could be fraudulent.
Ummkay.
I was hoping for a barf alert.
Rich Lowry is a HAS-BEEN.....or maybe a NEVER WAS!
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