Both sides of the aisle will be questioning the results.
Let’s start with the Right.
We are in the wee hours of the morning on election night, and it’s shaping up to be lousy (or at least worse than it should be, but not as bad as I expected). I couldn’t help but notice that on the brief bit of Fox News coverage that I watched around 11pm ET, they were emphasizing how ties with Trump were toxic to certain candidates. They even blamed some of the more conservative firebrands for diverting GOP money to what should have been safe races, leaving more vulnerable races in trouble. They also talked about how New Hampshire was lost because of how long the GOP Primary lasted there.
That’s a load of garbage. The Establishment RINOs threw the races because their preferred candidates lost in the primaries. They openly funded Establishment losers in the primaries (and sabotaged ones they didn’t like), and the moment Trump-backed candidates swept the primaries the heads of the GOP declared the midterms to be unwinnable. Why? Because they were scared- these new candidates were not beholden to the elites, and the party elites would rather lose and be unable to serve the citizens who voted for them than face any kind of challenge to the hegemony they have in the GOP. And now they (and from what I saw, their spin masters on Fox News under RINO Paul Ryan) are trying to spin the election wins as a referendum on Trump. They are just as scared of him running as the Democrats are. And as for needing to move money around… hardly. They sent money from a conservative in a tough race to Democrat-lite Lisa Murkowski’s campaign, which didn’t need it. They stopped money from flowing to campaigns that needed it.
And most assuredly, they will not question any irregularities that brought this outcome about. And boy have there been a few already! Poor Arizona– that’s a real big mess (and once again Dominion voting machines prove their worth- to Democrats!). Look at how a judge ruled that districts that stopped counting votes due to technical issues before polls closed could not remain open after polls officially were to be closed. The voters most hurt by that are Republicans, because they wait until the day of the election to vote, so election day voting machine sabotage hurts GOP turnout, especially if polls close early because the computers are down! Now, it is a question as to if this was sabotage or not. Not that they’d ever find out, the person in charge of investigating election irregularities in Arizona will WIN because of these irregularities. Funny how that works.
As for the Left…
They started a campaign to delegitimize any Republican win this year, as they have done in the past (they even said Republicans would murder people to win in 2020, which obviously didn’t happen, and right now CNN/The Week/The Atlantic/Daily Kos/Rawstory/Progressive.org/New Republic/The Guardian are all running articles saying that Republicans will steal 2024). MSNBC was out there saying don’t believe the polls, the Democrats were going to win, which necessarily implies that a Republican win was achieved by cheating. Less subtle accusations of cheating were also thrown out. One Democrat already said earlier this year that Republicans stole a special election. Then there’s the myth of voter suppression like in Georgia, where historic numbers of Blacks voting indicates that Black people aren’t being allowed to vote, with these numbers topping any previous occasion that wouldn’t have had voter suppression according to Democrats (in other words, topping any other Georgia election Democrats won). But don’t let facts get in the way of a good narrative- Stacey Abrams made her name for herself and got to appear on Star Trek by claiming that her election was stolen and illegitimate, and this just gave her something for her next book deal. So Democrats ended up having “voter suppression” as their stolen election myth for claiming elections they lose are not legitimate, despite record turnout over and over again.
By the way, why do you guys believe it takes days or even weeks to learn the outcome of an election? Plenty of other countries, some whom you say we need to model ourselves after, get it all done in one night. For that matter, with much more primitive technology, we knew the same night that Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama won their elections. So how come the system got worse?
Rocky Start
We’ll see how things play out. Republicans have some things to be happy about, but there’s clearly a bit of cheating going on. Democrats will also come out saying their lost elections were stolen. According to one Democrat (who voted against certifying the 2016 election, a vote showing he denied the election was fair), denying that elections were fair means you are unfit for office. And that summarizes the Democratic Party right there- in their own words they are unfit for office but it’s stealing Democracy if they don’t win in an election, so violence against the GOP is ok.
C-Gaymer 