Posted on 11/28/2022 10:38:43 AM PST by bitt
According to the political website FiveThirtyEight, “the vast majority of election-denying candidates who lost their races have conceded.” They no more deserve applause than would arsonists who, at the last minute, decide to fight the fire that they had set.
But unlike these candidates, Kari Lake, the two-fisted, election-denying Republican nominee for governor of Arizona, adamantly refuses to concede even though the Associated Press declared that she lost the election by 17,000 votes. No surprise there because Lake had vowed during the campaign only to accept a result in which she was the winner — in other words, “heads I win, tails the election was rigged.” To emphasize her election-denying grit, Lake’s campaign recently began playing on social media the late Tom Petty’s song, “I won’t back down.”
Time will tell whether the 2022 midterms were the Gettysburg of election denial, the kind of battlefield defeat that in hindsight was a turning point. But, as the midterms demonstrated, election denial is certainly losing traction. Its adherents’ most realistic hope of a revival depends on a replay of 2020 in which Donald Trump, as the Republican nominee, loses the 2024 general election in a tight race and then uses election denial to rouse his MAGA mercenaries, at least those no longer serving prison terms, and the lunatic conspiracy theorists, to stop the electoral certification. It will be harder in 2024 since Trump won’t be rabble-rousing from a presidential perch and President Biden will have considerable means available to prevent a Jan. 6 replay.
Without Trump, election denial has no future as a political strategy. Other prominent Republicans simply can’t conjure upon fake realities the way he can, as evidenced by the flop of Kari Lake’s one-woman election denial show.
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The Hill would be more aptly named The Pile.
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Maybe we’re saying the same thing.
I’m pointing out the Dem’s hypocrisy.
They claim it’s a disqualifier when it’s a staple of the “leaders.”
If there ever was a time for MAGA mercenaries now is the time to save liberty from the walking scabs who infect it.
As long as the organized corruption works out in Wallance’s favor, all’s good.
Oh wait...
Yes perhaps we are, my temper is short my apologies. We have been kicked from all sides and it’s gotten old.
They open, scan ballot and envelope into images for archive; send printed ballot back to MTEC. No mention of audit of transit logs, and Runbeck keeps the envelopes at their site.
I’d guess more than half think that....and maybe 1/3rd of regular folk..want it that way.
The Shill..is what it is.
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I hear you
Thanks
Well, I had no idea the AP declared it.
That changes everything…
anyone listen to chairman Gates? he sounds a little light in the loafers to me anyone from AZ know anything about him?
Would it be impossible to have a re-do of the election in those counties that had all the difficulties.
Too simple.
Kari won’t concede even though AP says she lost??? What kind of lunat8c is she? [eyeroll]
No, the other half KNOWS they’re rigged cause they’re doing the rigging.
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