Apparently Moscow Mitch doesn't think all those repug voters who split their ballot to elect every repug except Bevin are going to look any more kindly on
his traitor ass next year.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday it appears
that Gov. Matt Bevin has lost the election for Kentucky governor, but he
declined to say whether he thinks the Republican governor should
concede.
“I’m sorry Matt came up short, but he had a good
four years and all indications are, barring some dramatic reversal on
the recanvass, we’ll have a different governor in three weeks,”
McConnell said.
Gov.-elect Andy Beshear collected 5,189 votes
more than Bevin, which was less than 0.5% of the 1.45 million votes cast
Nov. 5. Bevin has requested a recanvass of vote totals, which will take place Thursday.
McConnell, speaking after a news conference at North American Stainless,
said he wouldn’t “give the governor advice,” but noted that he won by a
similarly close margin when he first ran for U.S. Senate in 1984. He
beat U.S. Sen. Walter “Dee” Huddleston by 5,269 votes.
“We had a recanvass, they added it up and it didn’t change and we all moved on,” McConnell said.
Bevin sparked concern that he wouldn’t accept the
election results when he cited “irregularities” in last week’s election
without providing any evidence to support his claim. Among other
things, he alleged that “thousands” of illegally cast absentee ballots
were counted inappropriately. Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes
has said her office has seen no evidence of irregularities.
McConnell, the patriarch of the Kentucky
Republican Party, is the latest to distance himself from Bevin’s claims
of irregularities. Republican lawmakers,
spurred on by speculation that Bevin might try to contest the election
in a complaint to the General Assembly, have said there is no need to
seek legislative review of the election unless Bevin can produce
significant evidence that voter fraud has occurred.
...
Bevin’s loss made some in Washington D.C.
question whether McConnell is vulnerable in his 2020 reelection bid,
despite Bevin’s significant unpopularity and the fact that Republicans
won all other races on the ballot.
When McConnell was asked if Bevin’s loss has implications for his reelection bid, he said “we’ll find out.”
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Bevin is trying to claim "irregularities". For 20 years, Republicans have had absolutely no problem at all in crying foul and demanding recounts and questioning ballots by the truckloads. Now, all of a sudden, in KY they are upright citizens and saying "do the minimum and forget about it".
ReplyDeleteWhy? Probably because a full recount investigation will show massive REPUBLICAN chicanery.