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A growing number of Republican lawmakers are urging Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, a fellow Republican, to either provide evidence of the voting “irregularities” he has alleged or concede Tuesday’s election to Gov.-elect Andy Beshear, who defeated him by 5,189 votes.
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GOP Rep. John Blanton is a former state police officer who said he has heard rumors of election problems but no hard evidence.
“The last thing anyone wants to do is overturn a constitutional election,” Blanton said. “We want the will of the people to be done.”
When Robert Stivers made his statement about “the legislature deciding the election,” it was a perfectly assholish thing to say and very much a feature (not a bug) of today’s Republican party. With Trump in office, there’s been a growing sense that Republicans can say just about anything and get away with it. While that’s been true to a certain extent, the idea that they would brazenly talk about overturning an election and then get away with it was paranoid CT at best.
There is no way elected officials are going to throw out the results of an election and install someone willy-nilly. They could have done it when Doug Jones won his election in Alabama, since the Secretary of State was a Republican at the time. That level of democracy-overturning is bad for EVERYONE and they know it. It’s the sort of thing that spawns wars and unrest.
We know Trump has pulled some ignominiously evil stunts in office. We know the GOP might have looked the other way at it all had they won the House in 2018. But when (and I said when, not if) he is booted out… he will be booted out decisively. There will be no “installation” of Trump as an autocrat. Even the Republican party knows the country will no longer function if the results of an election were ignored or overturned.