Why Democrats in Georgia and Florida are refusing to accept the election outcome
by Washington Examiner
| November 16, 2018 10:29 PM
Stacey Abrams, having lost the governor’s race in Georgia, effectively called the election illegitimate and called for a new election, before kind-of-conceding on Friday evening. The Democratic nominee has a powerful cheering section, with the likes of Sens. Cory Booker and Sherrod Brown accusing the Republicans of stealing the election.
Andrew Gillum has lost the governor’s race in Florida but refuses to concede — that is, after having withdrawn his Election Day concession.
Democrat Bill Nelson, seeking re-election to the U.S. Senate, got a boost in the machine recount when Hillsborough County’s Elections supervisor, a Democrat, refused to submit his recount totals, which would have expanded Nelson’s statewide deficit.
The Democrats will say that they just want every vote counted. That claim is undermined by Nelson’s lawsuit to discard some votes in heavily Republican Bay County, where Hurricane Michael cut voters off from the postal service, and so some voters submitted their mail-in ballots by email.
Some Republicans cry, like Booker and Brown, that Democrats are trying to steal these elections. But that’s off-base.
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