The best indication that Larry Elder was going down in the California recall wasn’t the polling, although that all swung the wrong way in the final weeks, but his suggestion late in the campaign that Democrats were going to steal the election.
To his credit, Elder graciously conceded on Tuesday night, but his talk of stolen elections was arguably his biggest misstep of the campaign. In the Georgia special Senate elections earlier this year, Trump himself divided the party and suppressed GOP turnout at the margins by trying to make the election about November 2020 as much as possible and accusing Republicans who didn’t go along with his allegations of partisan treason.
Then, Elder got some pushback on Twitter and couldn’t withstand it. Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis tweeted a clip of Elder’s statement: "This could cost @larryelder a lot of votes in California. I fully disagree with his comments here and he was clearly poorly advised." If Elder had been running in a Republican primary in a red state, he would have secured his position nicely with his do-over, but he’d driven a nail in his own coffin in the recall.
RichLowry I hope Larry Elder’s candidacy will reduce the Republican Party to the write-in position of the ballot nationwide.
RichLowry Hey Politico...it's bad for the whole country and democracy
RichLowry For some reason, they still like using that lie. Oh well.
RichLowry The “stolen election myth” is all the GOP has to go on!
rpyers RichLowry I am still waiting for California Republicans to get serious about winning elections. 1) they have to respect the whole voting public, 2) trust that most people use good judgment, 3) and then offer a vision of the future a winning majority will support. Politics 101. Duh.
rpyers RichLowry Brilliant column by Rich Lowry. Trump kills everything he touches. The GOP would be wise to disassociate with Trump, but they won't,for the time being.
RichLowry Poisonous? Why isn't it killing its perpetrators? It's killing our democracy
RichLowry A “landslide” election in a state that traditionally votes Democrat 99.8% of the time has zero to do with possible election shenanigans in a few key swing states in an effort to turn an election. By the way,the last election isn’t the only one affected. Both sides have benefited.
RichLowry The big lie is sagging and settling as all things do after their rise. It is slackening in energizing people as it must. All things must pass.
RichLowry Imran Khan sees this hope in avoiding shirk and its forms because no one had explained to him about shirk and its forms like this before or warned him about them. Learn more at
RichLowry Anyone who believed he could win California obviously doesn't know California.
RichLowry So not only is the myth devoid of all decency, it doesn't even work.
RichLowry Or people don’t want another trump
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