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According to a report from the Daily Beast, more than a few Republican Party primary losers are refusing to take their losses gracefully and are taking a page out of Donald Trump's playbook and complaining about election theft.
With the GOP leadership trying to focus on the midterm elections which are now less than 60 days away, they are also having to deal with disgruntled far-right candidates who are casting doubt on the primary victors -- which could come back to haunt the party when the voters go to the polls in November.
As the Beast's Kelly Weill wrote, "From Colorado to Florida, a new cohort of Republican primary candidates have adopted a local version of Donald Trumps election denial, refusing to accept their losses, even if it means accusing their own party of election tampering ahead of the general election."
Case in point, she wrote, is Tina Peters who lost her bid to be the Republican nominee for secretary of state in Colorado as she was buffeted by an indictment on 10 counts related to election equipment tampering by a grand jury.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-primary-losers-throwing-party-into-chaos-before-the-midterms-report/ar-AA127CWQ
Skittles
(153,113 posts)repukes are a party of LOSERS
ColinC
(8,278 posts)Walleye
(30,977 posts)D_Master81
(1,822 posts)The GOP shouldve cake walked to regaining the house and senate this year with the inflation numbers and current economic uncertainty. The fact that its in doubt shows how moronic that party has become.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,254 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Dysfunctionality is intrinsic to extremism.
It's scary that what's happening here is part of what's happening in many nations around the planet. Big, destructive forces are destabilizing and threatening humanity even as planetwide wellbeing has become possible.
Sky Jewels
(7,015 posts)I'm sure the corporate media will soon be shouting this from the rooftops ...
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,164 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,207 posts)Martin68
(22,765 posts)that their Republican primary opponents cheated. It's the only way they know how to deal with an electoral loss: cry "they stole the vote" loud and long until; everybody gets a headache and goes home. I'm looking forward to the effect this will have on the GOP turnout in the midterm elections.
LiberalFighter
(50,783 posts)Especially if they quit voting.
Danascot
(4,690 posts)Expect a circus.
DENVERPOPS
(8,790 posts)That every last Republican who loses in the 2022 election will file lawsuits across the entire nation claiming voter fraud.
From the top of the ballot, all the way down to dog catchers and street crossing guards..........