GOP's Darrell Issa concedes his district on Fox News before polls open: 'We know the results already

[LiberalArkie]

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is retiring from his district in suburban San Diego after 18 years.

The district, which Hillary Clinton won handily in the 2016 election, is now the subject of a fight between Republican Diane Harkey and Democrat Mike Levin.

But on Tuesday, Issa went on Fox News and conceded that the Democrat would win even before the polls opened. This despite the fact that his would-be Republican successor was still trying to rally voters.

“Quite frankly, we know the results already, there will be a Democrat representing La Jolla and Solana Beach for the first time in a number of years,” he said. “For now, California is leaning very hard to the left.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/gops-darrell-issa-concedes-district-fox-news-polls-open-know-results-already-will-democrat/

[ck4829]

1. K&R. But vote still.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Trying to suppress the vote...

I sure hope Dems don't listen to him.

But then, good Dems don't watch Faux Noise.

[LiberalFighter]

10. You got that right.

Talking about that. There should be a bill of rights for consumers not being forced to watch Fox.

[ooky]

3. Vote anyway.

[bluestarone]

4. Exactly why he's retiring

He see's the hand writing on the wall!!! GO BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BSdetect]

5. Good riddance to bad rubbish

[MineralMan]

6. Conceding for someone else? How odd.

Everyone should still go and vote for the Democrat in that district, though. Numbers matter!

[dogknob]

13. Harkey's a nasty person who rolled on her hubby...

...when they were both charged with fraud. Maybe Issa can't stomach the idea of a wife who so easily invokes the "I'm just a girl" defense on her husband.

[peekaloo]

7. Forever a crybaby.

Buh bye

[UTUSN]

8. Sweet! A lot of sweet results might happen today, and this is way up there!1

[SHRED]

9. I live here in the 49th

I am confident Mike Levin will win.

The GOP stopped TV ad buys here weeks ago.
I think they've given up.

[gratuitous]

11. Saying the quiet part out loud again

The elections analysts will cobble together their QAnon-quality bits and pieces from the last eight or nine months to tell us tonight how prescient they were in predicting whatever race they're talking about. "Back in March, I said if the Astros don't win the World Series, look for this seat to go Democratic!"

The big news organizations hire the same outfits to analyze the elections as the campaigns and the parties do. Issa, loathesome as he is, has been in politics long enough to know the outcome of a race before the polls open. He's been doing this for decades. The people who have him on know it, too, but to keep the viewers in suspense, they pretend that a five-point polling difference consistent over time is within the margin of error. Yes, but when that same spread shows up in poll after poll by different polling outfits, you can be assured that the margin of error has been substantially reduced, and that the candidate leading by what looks like a thin margin is going to win the election.

[SDJay]

12. That's My Outgoing

POS congresscritter. Good riddance to bad trash.

His would-be con replacement is a real piece o' work as well - cut from the same cloth.

I've never seen more signs and more people on their way to vote than I have this morning. Regardless of what Scumbag Issa says, I want our district to not just 'vote in the Democrat,' but to absolutely and without question crush their candidate. Destroy her and her lies.

If the folks a few miles south of me can get rid of that other scumbag, Duncan Hunter, it'll be a damn good day in San Diego County.

[Recursion]

14. Darrell Issa still owes me a hot dog from 2011

I cannot stand that man, and he stole my hot dog.

[mercuryblues]

15. Be happy he didn't steal your car

[renate]

16. I would like to hear the story behind that hilarious statement

I laughed so hard that "Darrell Issa still owes me a hot dog from 2011" will be embroidered on a pillow.

[Recursion]

17. Read on

It's on the old DU. I'm still pissed.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1589027

[renate]

18. wow! what a sense of entitlement!

It's like the time Bush used David Letterman's staffer's sweater to clean his glasses... just reached out and used her clothing THAT SHE WAS WEARING as if it were a rag. That same failure to acknowledge that another person even exists... he wanted that hot dog, therefore it automatically became his damn hot dog.

I'd be pissed too! HOW RUDE!!!!!