Former Senator Barbara Boxer, dozens of Democrat House Members, Representative Maxine Waters, Al Gore, Terry McAuliffe, and Jonathan Chait of New York magazine:
The previous time the Republicans won, George W. Bush in 2004, Sen. Barbara Boxer and dozens of House members objected to Ohio’s electoral votes going for Bush, even though he won the state by more than 100,000 votes.
Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, promoted a conspiracy theory whereby enough votes were switched from Kerry to Bush by voting machines and enough voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls that it “could have been” determinative of the result in Ohio and, thus, the whole presidential election.
And the time before that? Well, famously, Al Gore sued in Florida and in the Supreme Court to overturn George W. Bush’s insanely narrow victory in that state. Democratic congressmen, even after the lawsuits ended, called the result a “coup d’etat.” They also challenged the electoral votes.
Why do I bring up the distant past? Because Democrats continue to peddle the line, which would be called “dangerous” if a Republican made the same argument, that Bush “stole” the 2000 election.
Watch this video of Terry McAuliffe in 2004 , claiming Republicans stole the 2000 election. McAuliffe, who has never recanted that false claim, is now the Democratic nominee for the governor of Virginia and has the backing of the entire Democratic establishment.
That’s because the Democratic and liberal establishment say the same thing as McAuliffe:
20 years later, McAuliffe will not retract his claim that the 2000 election was stolen. Whereas Youngkin said onstage this week that Biden won.
https://t.co/NLPyuium6h— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) October 1, 2021
And here’s Jonathan Chait at New York magazine last month, saying Bush never won the election fairly.
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Being a Democrat Means Never Having to Accept an Election Loss
By Timothy P. Carney
Washington Examiner
October 05, 2021
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/being-a-democrat-means-never-having-to-accept-an-election-loss/
