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Kari Lake and the last stand of the election deniers (BARF)
thehill.com ^ | 11/28/2022 | GREGORY WALLANCE

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electiondeniers; electionfraud; gregorywallance; karilake; voterfraud
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

The Hill would be more aptly named The Pile.


41 posted on 11/28/2022 1:04:26 PM PST by jimbug
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To: gibsonguy

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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.”


42 posted on 11/28/2022 1:05:25 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: bitt

If there ever was a time for MAGA mercenaries now is the time to save liberty from the walking scabs who infect it.


43 posted on 11/28/2022 1:07:37 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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As long as the organized corruption works out in Wallance’s favor, all’s good.


44 posted on 11/28/2022 1:12:27 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: bitt
The best way to prove election deniers are crazy is to have a highly irregular election where the person running the election is one of the candidates and voters are turned away from key areas due to surprise electronics issues and then surround the counting area with barbed wire while you take several weeks to count the votes which Surprise! end up with the candidate who runs the counting outperforming her polling by 5 points to win.

Oh wait...

45 posted on 11/28/2022 1:13:33 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (This post is subject to removal pending review by government censorship officials)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Yes perhaps we are, my temper is short my apologies. We have been kicked from all sides and it’s gotten old.


46 posted on 11/28/2022 1:18:19 PM PST by gibsonguy ( )
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To: ridesthemiles
WHY did all mail ballots go to a printing company before being counted in Phoenix????

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.

47 posted on 11/28/2022 1:19:57 PM PST by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: central_va

I’d guess more than half think that....and maybe 1/3rd of regular folk..want it that way.


48 posted on 11/28/2022 1:20:24 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: ridesthemiles

The Shill..is what it is.


49 posted on 11/28/2022 1:22:10 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: gibsonguy

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I hear you

Thanks


50 posted on 11/28/2022 2:57:24 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: bitt
…refuses to concede even though the Associated Press declared that she lost the election…

Well, I had no idea the AP declared it.

That changes everything…

51 posted on 11/28/2022 3:04:13 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: bitt

anyone listen to chairman Gates? he sounds a little light in the loafers to me anyone from AZ know anything about him?


52 posted on 11/28/2022 5:09:13 PM PST by rolling_stone ( ...)
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To: bitt

Would it be impossible to have a re-do of the election in those counties that had all the difficulties.

Too simple.


53 posted on 11/28/2022 5:12:45 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: bitt
"the last stand of the election deniers"

Libberish.

Election Deniers - Those who can prove election fraud.


54 posted on 11/29/2022 2:10:04 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: bitt

Kari won’t concede even though AP says she lost??? What kind of lunat8c is she? [eyeroll]


55 posted on 11/30/2022 1:47:34 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: AFret.

No, the other half KNOWS they’re rigged cause they’re doing the rigging.


56 posted on 11/30/2022 1:49:39 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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