Kylee Griswold of the Federalist ponders the significance of Democrats conceding this week’s presidential election to Republican Donald Trump.
Nearly 24 hours after the polls closed in the 2024 election, Kamala Harris finally publicly conceded the race to Donald Trump. She was out of options. …
… Of course, they “acknowledge that he won.” After their QUESTIONING ELECTION RESULTS IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY rhetoric from the past four years, what the heck other choice do they have? Their “we accept the results” posture started about five minutes ago — or, more precisely, the moment Trump questioned the results of the 2020 election. Before that, Democrats had for decades questioned pretty much every other election they had lost, which were all freer and fairer than 2020, by the way. …
… Democrats did the same thing in the 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, and then again when Bush beat John Kerry four years later, to the point of stalling the Electoral College vote certification. Democrats even spun up a wild conspiracy theory that Karl Rove had colluded with voting machine manufacturers to change vote tallies. Jerry Nadler and other Judiciary Committee Democrats called on the General Accountability Office to investigate whether the machines were used to steal the election. …
… In 2018, Stacey Abrams insisted she had won the race for governor of Georgia against Brian Kemp even though she had lost. There are more examples where these came from.Everything changed in 2020. That election featured a deluge of mail-in ballots and “indefinitely confined” absentee voters under the cover of Covid. It included last-minute rule changes in battleground states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as state officials taking unlawful actions such as counting ballots that arrived past Election Day without postmarks, meaning there was no telling when or from where the ballots had been mailed.
