Another rough day for election deniers

[RandySF]

Many of the most prominent 2020 election deniers and conspiracists crashed and burned in the 2022 midterm elections, when voters rejected their bids to win office. Now, as Donald Trump launches his bid to return to the White House, comes more evidence that the electorate has limited tolerance for baseless claims of election fraud and allegations that the 2020 race was rigged.

In Republican primaries in Kentucky and Pennsylvania last night, GOP candidates who made election denial a centerpiece of their campaign had a rough time. Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams, a first-term incumbent Republican who vigorously rejected election fraud narratives and attempted to expand voting access in Kentucky, easily dispatched Stephen Knipper, who embarked on a tour of the state to “Restore Election Integrity.”

Knipper, who claimed fraud in elections happened largely through hacked voting machines, won a little over a quarter of the vote — a sign that there is a residual base of support for election deniers in a GOP primary, but not nearly enough to win even in a conservative state.

“Kentucky Republicans rejected those who malign our county clerks and poll workers with conspiratorial nonsense,” Adams said in a statement after his victory.

In Pennsylvania, meanwhile, Republicans who rejected election denialism turned back candidates who supported Trump’s claims in three important contests.



https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2023/05/17/another-rough-day-for-election-deniers-00097548

[RussBLib]

1. it's a good sign

we just need to keep putting up Dem candidates who will loudly and forcefully debunk the election denial nonsense. Seems like it would be an easy chore for Democrats. Probably a pretty good time to run as a Dem.

[usonian]

2. I LOVE IT. The more they lose, the more they deny!

The dumbshit part is that people who actually won went on to call fraud.
May their tribe decrease!