WASHINGTON (AP) — After President Donald Trump said he would accept the results of his party’s midterm rout, many of his loyalists followed suit even though they, too, are always a hair trigger away from branding a losing election rigged.
To be sure, there were diehards on social media. “This is how the Left steals elections,” Katie Miller, wife of Trump aide Stephen Miller, posted of the equipment malfunction that delayed ballot counting in Westchester County, New York, on Tuesday. Posted far-right activist Laura Loomer: “Of course. Democrats love cheating.”
Yet across the country, great numbers of defeated Republican candidates conceded, congratulated their Democratic opponents in moments of grace and bowed to their fate.
While there were the same typical voting problems that show up every Election Day, there was little conspiracy theorists could use to offset the massive Democratic victories. Most notably, there was no day-after wave of court actions challenging the outcome, despite the Trump Justice Department's laying of preelection groundwork to do just that.
Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York conceded his race before thousands of set-aside Westchester County ballots were even counted, intent on tamping down the conspiracy theories that others were floating to explain his loss in that district. “No shenanigans,” he assured supporters. He said it was obvious his totals would fall short in any event.
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