The Runback: Kari's Lake of Fire
One MAGAworld candidate's win should shut up the "stolen election" hucksters once and for all. But it won't.
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The Monday Thought
So here’s a fun anecdote brought to us by the folks over at The Dispatch:
Here’s a story that’s become canonical lore among Republicans who falsely believe the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. When America went to bed on election night two years ago, with only real votes having been counted, Trump was headed for a second term in office. Then, as people slept, out came the fake ballots, as dissembling Democrats scrambled to make up the gap—an operation that ultimately proved successful, with Joe Biden being declared the victor.
Now here’s a thing that actually happened in Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial primary this week. When Arizonans went to bed Tuesday night, the ballots counted so far seemed to favor Republican establishment pick Karrin Taylor Robson. As the remaining ballots were slowly counted, however, MAGA favorite Kari Lake began to gain ground, pulling into the lead around 2 a.m. local time. As of this writing, it’s estimated that more than 100,000 ballots have yet to be counted, but most elections watchers agree Lake is unlikely to relinquish her lead.
Given the parallels to 2020, you may not be surprised to hear that the results have already been tarnished by allegations of fraud. But these allegations have come not from Robson, who lost out in the late count, but from Lake herself.
“We outvoted the fraud,” Lake said Wednesday at an event where she also declared victory in the race. “The MAGA movement voted like their lives depended on it.”
If we live in a sane world, Kari Lake’s come-from-behind victory over Karrin Taylor Robson in the Arizona gubernatorial primary would prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there was no fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election. It would prove, once and for all, that you really don’t know who the winner of the election is until all the votes are counted and the election is certified once and for all.
If we lived in a consistent world, Kari Lake would decry her own victory as proof of election fraud and would be fighting tooth-and-nail to make sure that Karrin Taylor Robson was declared the winner of the election.
As we know, however, Arizona’s descent into madness has been ongoing.
No, we live in the stupidest timeline and Kari Lake and her supporters truly believe that there was election fraud that she was able to defeat. Somehow. Because the fraudsters weren’t good enough to beat her, or something.
That, of course, is the key sacrament of being MAGA and, in a lot of instances, being a Republican these days. You may win the election. You may lose the election. But always, always, cry fraud.
The lesson about MAGAworld claims of voter fraud, as always?