# Indicted Colorado GOP Secretary of State candidate finishes a distant third in primary; guess what she does? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 29, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153 "2022-06-29T23:30:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/1 "2022-06-29T23:30:26Z")
You guessed it: She refuses to concede. This is the normal order of business with Trumpists. > **[Former clerk Pam Anderson wins GOP Secretary of State primary over indicted...](https://www.cpr.org/2022/06/28/colorado-2022-primary-elections-republican-secretary-of-state-winner/)** > > Preliminary results show Pam Anderson, a former Jefferson County clerk who also ran the statewide clerk's association, besting prominent election denier Tina Peters and another challenger in the GOP contest for Secretary of State. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/2 "2022-06-29T23:52:46Z")
Not only did she refuse, she also spouted she has evidence the election was stolen from her. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/3 "2022-06-30T00:10:35Z")
Should we start giving out participation trophies for Trumpists like we do for little kids? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/4 "2022-06-30T00:18:18Z")
The more these shitheads cry ‘wolf’, the less people will listen to them. Eventually it will only elicit a yawn. Or so I hope. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/5 "2022-06-30T01:49:52Z")
Sadly, the more they do it the more people will be convinced that any candidate they favor who gets defeated is the victim of a conspiracy, not an old-fashioned loser. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/6 "2022-06-30T02:11:28Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Should we start giving out participation trophies for Trumpists like we do for little kids? Maybe little Confederate flags, the ultimate conservative participation trophy. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/7 "2022-06-30T02:55:08Z")
She was beaten by the 31 votes that went to Franken. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/8 "2022-06-30T10:17:34Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Should we start giving out participation trophies for Trumpists like we do for little kids? Yes. They win a stylish orange jumpsuit and free lodging for three to five years. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/9 "2022-06-30T11:19:37Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Sadly, the more they do it the more people will be convinced that any candidate they favor who gets defeated is the victim of a conspiracy, not an old-fashioned loser. I’m not so sure. I think the more they do this when it’s clear they lost the more people will think it’s bullshit ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/10 "2022-06-30T11:22:58Z")
If they believe the Presidential election was “stolen”, then other elections where Trumpists lose are proof. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/11 "2022-06-30T23:05:28Z")
Here in Colorado Springs, the “lunatic fringe” candidate for county clerk and recorder (who got 34% of the vote), also refuses to concede. He claims that it’s evidence of fraud that all the local anti-establishment candidates lost by similar percentages. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/12 "2022-07-02T12:51:24Z")
One thing is for sure. If the tactic actually works we’ll see a lot more of it. Only if it conclusively fails, and better yet if it results in jail time, will we see it stop being tried. A BIG problem for all of us is what’s probably happening now. It utterly fails in the real world, and utterly succeeds in the RW propaganda-o-sphere. no democracy can withstand having two disjoint realities. Which is why the Russians and Chinese, and their henchmen in the R party and R media-sphere, are trying so hard to create those two disjoint realities. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/13 "2022-07-18T00:55:43Z")
Reporters are noticing a pattern with Trumpists about this. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ultra-maga-sore-losers-parrot-trump-by-refusing-to-concede-losses-and-it-might-get-worse-report/ar-AAZEyUd?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7a36aef7cc2e4eefb5306fdbd15e3b08](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ultra-maga-sore-losers-parrot-trump-by-refusing-to-concede-losses-and-it-might-get-worse-report/ar-AAZEyUd?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7a36aef7cc2e4eefb5306fdbd15e3b08) ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/14 "2022-07-18T01:06:16Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > One thing is for sure. If the tactic actually works we’ll see a lot more of it. Only if it conclusively fails, and better yet if it results in jail time, will we see it stop being tried. I think republicans may continue to make these claims if only to dilute such claims from the left in the future. - [Republican plans to use political operatives as poll workers alarm voting rights activists](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/republican-plans-to-use-political-operatives-as-poll-workers-alarm-voting-rights-activists) - [Democracy Diverted: Polling Place Closures and the Right to Vote](https://civilrights.org/democracy-diverted/) - [How GOP-backed voting measures could create hurdles for tens of millions of voters](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/voting-restrictions-republicans-states/) - [‘It’s going to be an army’: Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/gop-contest-elections-tapes-00035758) - [Power in Chaos: Steve Bannon is Disrupting Democracy. This is How](https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/07/politics/steve-bannon-us-democracy/) That’s just for starters. If liberals claim the election was stolen conservatives will just say liberals said election stealing was a lie and so it is now. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/15 "2022-07-18T13:59:42Z")
Of course they will. It’s right there in the kindergarten behavior play book. The sad thing is how well it works on adults with kindergarten-level maturities. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/16 "2022-07-18T15:40:20Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > If liberals claim the election was stolen conservatives will just say liberals said election stealing was a lie and so it is now. Absolutely. You can also see it as part of constructing their own reality. The narrative that the Democrats are cheating is a rationalization to justify their own cheating. Just as the narrative that White Christian are persecuted is a rationalization for their own efforts to set up a White supremacist theocracy. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/17 "2022-07-18T16:39:55Z")
Here in Georgia, Kandiss Taylor received 3.4% of the vote in the Republican gubernatorial primary. She has yet to concede. All you really need to know about her is her slogan “Jesus. Guns. Babies.” ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/18 "2022-07-18T16:43:18Z")
> [@Yodalicious](#): > > She has yet to concede. All you really need to know about her is her slogan “Jesus. Guns. Babies.” Eats shoots and doesn’t leave? ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/19 "2022-07-18T16:44:52Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Eats shoots and doesn’t leave? HA! Exactly. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153/20 "2022-07-18T17:28:02Z")
Yeah; I mentioned this when it happened. > [@Remember the "Jesus, Guns, Babies" lady who ran for governor in Georgia?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-jesus-guns-babies-lady-who-ran-for-governor-in-georgia/965331): > > Kandiss Taylor, the “Jesus, Guns, Babies” candidate who ran for the GOP nomination for governor in Georgia, received just 3.4% of the vote, finishing in third place well behind Kemp and Perdue. And she’s refusing to concede. “Election was rigged.” In case you’re wondering how much of an ass-whipping a Trumpist candidate needs to take before they’ll admit that they lost, 70 points is not enough. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153.md?page=2)