.MaddowBlog: It’s not just Democratic victories: Donald Trump also sees Republican victories as suspect — if he considers them the wrong kind of Republican.
A sensible response would be for the former president and his operation to take stock, consider what went wrong, and adjust accordingly. After all, Georgia wasn't exactly a nail-biter: Imagined"fraud" can't explain away a blowout loss.“ despite the fact that there’s literally no evidence of fraud.
What's more, it’s not just Georgia. Let’s not forget that it was two weeks ago today when Pennsylvania Republicans voted in their U.S. Senate primary. As vote tallies came in, and it was unclear whether Mehmet Oz had defeated hedge fund executive David McCormick, the former president told the celebrity doctor to simply declare victory anyway., Trump’s rationale was rooted in — what else? — the prospect of conspiratorial election mischief.
“Dr. Oz should declare victory,” the former president wrote on his social media platform. “It makes it much harder for them to cheat with the ballots that they ‘just happened to find.’” Trump did not elaborate as to who’s included in “them.” The public was apparently supposed to believe, however, that there were nefarious forces out there engaged in ... something nefarious.soon after, which read in part, “Stop FINDING VOTES in PENNSYLVANIA. RIGGED?”
There was literally nothing to suggest any improprieties with Pennsylvania’s primary, the results, or the way in which the votes were tallied. But the former president, a year and a half after trying to overturn the results of his own defeat, took deliberate steps to discredit and undermine public confidence in yet another process.The conventional wisdom holds that Trump too often takes the position that any Democratic victory is, practically by definition, an illegitimate outcome.
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