What does irony taste like? Maybe like a college kid’s foot after losing a shoe and walking on the wet bathroom floor of a Five Points bar? South Carolina Republicans know the flavor. They’re getting a mouthful of it right now.
Their own affiliates are turning against each other and throwing matches at the state’s dominant political party. And you know what? The state’s Republican leaders deserve the pain. They’re reaping what they sowed.
Republican attorney general candidate Lauren Martel and fellow populist Harrison “Trucker Bob” Musselwhite, who ran against Gov. Henry McMaster, challenged the results of their party’s June 14 primary. Both had lost by double-digit percentage points.
In Greenville County, an insurgent “MAGA” Republican wing voted to throw out its own party’s primary election results after incumbent County Councilman Joe Dill lost by more than a hundred votes to a former cop, the Greenville News reported.
Martel and Musselwhite claimed election “irregularities” and the possibility that dead people and people alien to the Palmetto State could have voted, among other bizarre assertions. Dill said that voting machines weren’t working, and he knew one person who got turned away at the poll because of an issue with an ID.
My God! They’ve busted this democracy charade wide open.
Where are they getting this stuff? Has any Republican candidate for office ever used similar assertions to try to show an election was “fake?” Where did those Greenville County...
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