Trump unleashes an army of sore losers
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Source: Politico
Its been five weeks since the election, and he still hasnt conceded. Alleging massive voter fraud, hes demanded an audit of votes in populous Democratic strongholds. On Thursday, he sued the secretary of state.
Were talking here about Loren Culp, the unsuccessful Republican nominee for governor in Washington state, where he lost by more than 13 percentage points on Nov. 3. Like Donald Trump, Culp insists hes the victim of a rigged election.
Trump, it seems, isnt the only dead-ender holding out more than a month after the election, refusing to acknowledge defeat. Even as Trump lost again in court on Friday, with the Supreme Court rejecting a long-shot effort to overturn the election, he remains a lodestar for denialists of the GOP.
In California, a Republican congressional candidate trounced in Democratic-heavy Los Angeles is still refusing to concede while simultaneously announcing hes running for governor. In Maryland, a congressional candidate beaten by more than 40 percentage points is still complaining about irregularities in her election. And in Tennessee, a House candidate defeated by more than 57 percentage points has reached out to the ubiquitous pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell to air her grievances about an election that no Republican had any chance of winning but that shes convinced she did.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/13/trump-2020-election-gop-444682
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