A contrast:

Adam Frisch and Adam Gray lost #CO03 and #CA13, respectively, by less than 600 votes each. And they conceded. Didn’t cry fraud. Didn’t insult the integrity of elections workers. Didn’t claim that the elections were rigged.

Compare that to Kari Lake and Mark Finchem.
Lake and Finchem lost their races by a larger point margin than Frisch and Gray. And they continue, to this day, to insist that they won the race and that the contest was “stolen” from them. Even though they didn’t even do as well as Trump in 2022 - and HE lost.
Losing an election doesn’t make somebody a loser.

Lying to people’s faces, manipulating people, not having an ounce of dignity and being willing to burn democracy to the ground for the sake of your bruised ego - THAT makes you a loser.

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Dec 2
Let me say first for the record that I love Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. Great states. Great people.

I'm also a person who likes to quantify things.

Why might it make sense for Democrats to shift the order of the primaries?

Let's look at the results.
If you take a look from 1984 onward, which is the time period in which all four of the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina all had primaries and caucuses, looking at non-incumbents, the winner of the SC primary most frequently won the General.
The non-incumbent winner of the New Hampshire Primary has not gone on to be elected President at any point from 1984 onward.

The Iowa Caucus famously sent Barack Obama on his way to the Presidency in 2008.
Read 11 tweets
Nov 30
Just wondering.

If you had to choose between the following candidates for office:

Candidate A says they support issues important to you but they have a lot of character issues.

Candidate B is on the opposite side of your most important issues but seems like a great person.
For years, I think a lot of people have voted for Candidate A. Because we’re tribalized to the max. For a long time I would have minimally refused to vote for Candidate B.
But the last several years have made me wonder if this approach is inherently flawed.

All politics aside, can you really expect good results from bad people?
Read 6 tweets
Nov 30
Kari Lake and her supporters are trying to blame her loss on Election Day voting issues in Maricopa County.

So let’s talk about all the counties other than Maricopa where Kari Lake did worse than Donald Trump did in 2020. And Donald Trump LOST Arizona in 2020.
Kari Lake underperformed Trump in the following Arizona Counties not named Maricopa (which is 59.7% of Arizona’s Voting Age Population)

Cochise County (1.9% of VAP)
Coconino County (2.2%)
Gila County (0.8%)
Graham County (0.5%)
Greenlee County (0.1%)
Mohave County (3.3%)
Kari Lake underperformed Trump in the following Arizona Counties not named Maricopa (which is 59.7% of Arizona’s Voting Age Population)

Pima County (15.1% of VAP)
Pinal County (6.5%)
Yavapai County (3.7%)
Read 6 tweets
Nov 29
For those who still have a hard time understanding this, I even put together a chart.

#TrumpLost
#LakeLost
#GoHome
81% of the US Citizens old enough to vote in Arizona live in just 3 of its 15 counties: Maricopa, Pima and Pinal.

Joe Biden in 2020 won Maricopa and Pima. As did Katie Hobbs in 2022.
But in all three of these counties in which 4 out of every 5 adult citizens in Arizona live, Trump 2020 did worse than Trump 2016.

And then Lake 2022 did worse than Trump 2020.

And Trump 2020 lost.

Hello?
Read 4 tweets
Nov 29
I'm still blown away by the sheer stupidity of the whole Cochise County stunt.

Can somebody explain to these people that refusing to certify the election in a county which Hobbs LOST by nearly 18 points does not hurt ... Hobbs?

Maybe draw them a chart or diagram or something.
"Hey, watch me own the libs!"
Also,

Maybe these geniuses ought to check in with their own constituents.

In 2016, Trump won Cochise County by 21.55 points.

In 2020, Trump won Cochise County by 19.49 points.

In 2022, Lake won Cochise County by 17.50 points.
Read 4 tweets
Nov 28
A lot of candidates of both parties lost close elections in the 2022 midterms. Most of them conceded the races and accepted it didn’t go their way this time. Otherwise known as adulting.
But because two candidates, the drama queens who ran for #AZGOV and #AZSOS, refuse to admit they lost, spurred on by the biggest drama queen who has ever lived, Donald Trump, I decided to compare a few things.
We know what it looks like when a Republican wins Arizona. Donald Trump himself narrowly won Arizona in 2016. It wasn’t pretty and was a lot closer than when Romney won the state just four years beforehand. But we can use that as a baseline. And compare it to 2020 and 2022.
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