With the YES campaign having won the redistricting referendum fair and square (by about 3 points – bigger than Glenn Youngkin’s narrow margin of victory in November 2021, by the way) – Virginia Republicans are taking it all in stride, like the adults they are, committed to accepting the results of elections and the will of the people that they are, and…hahahahaha, yeah right! In fact, Virginia Republicans are going NUTS, with their party’s leader (Donald Trump) ranting falsely about a supposedly “RIGGED” election, with Virginia Republicans hoping that a right-wing-activist judge will overturn the will of Virginia’s voters, and with right wingers on social media ominously threatening secession and other unnamed “consequences.” Also, they just keep spewing out a wildly skewed narrative, an alternate reality in which this entire situation wasn’t 100% created by THEIR LEADER, Donald Trump, pushing to destroy our democracy, including his efforts to rig the midterm elections so that Republicans can hang on to their narrow majority in the U.S. House, no matter what the (large?) majority of voters decide this November.
Anyway, with that background, this morning on the floor of the Virginia Senate, Majority Leader Scott Surovell (D-Fairfax) delivered a superb speech, pushing back HARD on a lot of Republicans’ bullshit. Check it out, below. Also note that right after Sen. Surovell spoke, far-right Republicans Mark Obenshain (ObenSHAME, actually) and Bill Stanley responded with a...
WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s years-long campaign to undermine faith in U.S. elections has gained broad traction with the American public, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows, p...