In the Florida 20th, Republican Jason Mariner, who lost 79%-20% in a special congressional election to progressive Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, has filed a lawsuit and said he won’t concede the election.
In case you’re wondering how badly Republicans need to lose before they’ll concede elections, apparently 59 points is not badly enough.
This is going to be a thing with them from now on, I can tell.
“We’ll also have some stuff coming out that we’ve recently discovered,” Mariner told the TV station without elaborating.
Gee, who’s playbook did they get that line from?
Of course, conceding is irrelevant to who gets seated. But, yeah, basically he is being a party to the effor to normalize that in any election with the “wrong” result, the loser will seek that the result be forfeited.
Yeah, and water is wet.
If you can convince half the people that only fraud could allow their opponents to win and therefore their term in office is illegitimate and therefore you don’t have to obey their laws, pretty soon their opponents will be frightened off from even running and you’ll live in a one-party country, which is exactly the point.
I’m pretty sure this guy will only convince 20% of the people 
Nobody tell Mike Lindell
Another bit of evidence to put in the column of:
“Republicans are the party of the mentally ill”
Isn’t that the guy who won the Republican primary despite being a convicted felon?
He may be refusing to concede because it would render his case (against the Florida constitution which prohibits ex-felons from running for federal office) moot. I mean, unlikely… but…
~Max
We need to institute some sort of contractual obligation for people running for office. Something that they sign when they file that says, “I agree to abide by the election results conferred by (x official body). If I win, I will be sworn into office on (date). If I lose, I will publicly concede within 2 calendar days of the declaration of the results. If I choose to dispute the results, or fail to concede defeat, I will be liable for $X (some large sum) to be paid to (government body overseeing the election).”
And who’s going to enforce this stuff?
And she won her primary by like 5 votes or something crazy thin. That would have been worth contesting.
~Max
Yep.
Including cocaine possession.
Hey, so long as he didn’t join some board of directors in Ukraine…
~Max
The Republicans aren’t exactly sending us their best.
And it was, by her Democratic contender.
If republican voters had any sort of introspection or critical thinking, they’d think “huh, my party is trying to sell elections which are clearly legitimate as fraudulent, I wonder if this means that other accusations of fraudulent elections are equally false”, but then, if they had those capabilities, they probably wouldn’t be republican voters at this point, so this will probably do not damage whatsoever.
We’re going to have a massive disinformation campaign in 2022 that says “every election we won is legitimate, every election we lost is false” and none of them are going to think “Hmm, that doesn’t sound plausible…”
The overwhelming probability is that this guy is bonkers, but I won’t make a definitive statement until I see his specific claims. Broward County is infamous for ballot trickery, and even if it doesn’t change the result you’d want that addressed before the next election as a matter of public interest.
~Max
Uh, I’dunno. I was kinda hopin’ you could jump in and handle it.
A lot of Republicans basically view politics like sports. You support your team no matter what. If a ref calls a foul on your team then its a bad call, but if they call a foul on the other team its a good one.
At this point, many Republican voters think that Kennedy is going to come back from the dead and turn (R) and save us all from the shape-shifting lizard people.
“plausible” left the train station quite some time ago.