Blame bad candidates, not voter fraud, if Republicans don’t win back Congress
by Tom Joyce
October 10, 2022 01:45 PM
About 40% of Republicans think the only way their party will not get a congressional majority in the 2022 midterm elections is voter fraud, according to a new Axios-Ipsos poll.
Thinking this way is absurd. If Republicans don't win back a chamber of Congress this November, it will likely be the Senate. If they don't win back the Senate, it will be thanks to weak candidates, not voter fraud.
The Democratic Party has an effective majority in the 50-50 Senate, where Vice President Kamala Harris holds the tiebreaking vote. Republicans need a net gain of one seat this November to win back the majority, but poor candidate selection makes the task more difficult.
Although many Republican voters think voter fraud is a valid explanation for electoral losses thanks to former President Donald Trump, they should consider the results of the 2020 election before rushing to that conclusion again. The 2020 presidential election was nearly two years ago. Yet Trump and his supporters still have not proven the election was rigged against him. Voter fraud exists, and it's wrong for liberals to suggest otherwise. But it's usually not happening enough to sway the results of an election.
What can sway election results, however, is running people such as Herschel Walker, Mehmet Oz, Don Bolduc, and Blake Masters for U.S. Senate in swing states. Three of the four are trying to flip Democratic-held seats, while Oz is trying to defend a GOP seat held by outgoing Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA).
Walker, the Republican candidate in Georgia, has countless problems. Not only is he alleged to have paid for a woman's abortion in 2009, but he had personal baggage before entering the race. Walker lived in Texas before announcing his U.S. Senate bid, has lied about the 2020 presidential election results, and allegedly threatened to kill his ex-wife at one point.
Stellar candidate there, Republicans. While U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) seems far too liberal to represent Georgia, Republicans would have a better shot at beating him with a candidate on the ballot who knows how many children he has.
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