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
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Why would you knowingly push for a Constitutional Convention when the States already have the power to repeal the Seventeenth Amendment that turned a republican form of government upside down?
The California election process is designed to promote fraud, and elect democrats. Ballot harvesting is legal, no voter ID is required, everyone is sent a ballot, and it’s legal to vote outside your precinct.
Article V.
Speaking of bad ideas.
States need to do what States have the power to do without Convention of States, the Congress, or the media getting into the act.
States are either Sovereign or they are not. I stand with the yeas.
Sorry, I should have heaped praise upon you for the first two points.
Screaming for 3 years the proven lie that Trump, with the help of Russia, stole the 2016 election never hurt the Democratics.
A lunatic warning about lunacy. Oh the irony is overflowing in this article. Shut up Rich, you ignorant lunatic.
We have another piece of lunacy that we all need to get over—the crazy cult-like belief that the sun rises in the morning.
The massahs are gonna have to keep lashing the slaves until the slaves learn that the truth is whatever massah says it is....
That’s Rich.
From the BOHICA wing of the Uniparty.
Those import chinese ballots trucked to Pennsylvania and the bald black buddy if Stacy Abrams with his backpacks under the desk in Atlanta. Just optical illusions. Lowery should sing the Ingsoc Anthem
Why?! As a topic it worked GREAT for Democrats.
Funny how quickly they forget about Russia, Russia, Russia.
Or is it that the NYPost is no longer paid to say that?
Ditto,that was my first thought too.
I completely agree with this article. Of course, I am a tiny minority on this board.
Emerald Robinson proved that National Review and its editors were PAID by the CCP to generate articles that favor the CHICOMS.
This is just another one of those articles. Lowery is an unregistered lobbyist for communist China.
Lowry wants to be showered in media love, so he wrote an article the Left wants to hear. Nothing attracts media love more than a “Republican” dumping on Trump.
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
Benjamin Franklin when asked what form
Of government our Founders gave us
trump has to remain a republican so the upcoming court case has standing to proceed...
and there will be free beer tomorrow
Rich is not good at making lemonade.
Rich, when life gives you “Stolen Elections” lemons, you make lemonade of it by saying, “See, that’s why every real American must go to the polls in person every election, local, state, and federal, and vote against these ‘Rat liars and thieves!”
It’s not the hard, but Rich is past his sell-by date. We don’t live in that county any more. This is the Former USA unless we can take it back.
Rich, just pick up your Uniparty retirement check and go back to your friends at the country club.
Democrats always claim that elections are stolen or some problem exists except when they win. We had Al Gore and others claiming fraud and miscounting in Florida for the 2000 election, Hillary Clinton created years of turmoil with the claim of Russian interference in 2016, and Stacey Abrams still claims to be the rightful winner of the last election for Governor in Georgia.
All over the country Democrats file lawsuits claiming election procedures are illegal and discriminatory unless the procedures favor them.
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