The cynical Republican strategy to election outcomes is on full show in Virginia.
After voters supported redrawing the state’s congressional map to counter Donald Trump’s effort to rig the 2026 midterm election, Republicans instantly went courtroom buying and located a conservative decide within the state who tossed out the election and refused to certify the outcomes.
Virginia AG Jay Jones vowed to attraction the ruling, “My workplace will instantly file an attraction within the Courtroom of Appeals. As I mentioned final evening, Virginia voters have spoken, and an activist decide shouldn’t have veto energy over the Individuals’s vote. We stay up for defending the result of final evening’s election in courtroom.”
It’s a harmful sport and horrible for democracy when any social gathering makes an attempt to invalidate elections and the desire of the voters.
The Republican Social gathering beneath Trump invalidates any election that they lose.
Whereas conservative media is in a tizzy over the ruling blocking the redistricting, there doesn’t seem like a lot, if any, concern from Democrats who count on that the state Supreme Courtroom will uphold the desire of the voters.
There may be additionally an expectation that the case might be resolved pretty rapidly. Republicans aren’t going to have the ability to drag this out for months and run out the clock on the midterm election.
What stands out is that the Republican contempt for democracy after they lose seems to be limitless.
