You sure can count on many Democrat-run states and jurisdictions to count and count and count votes, until their opponents are counted out. But you can’t count on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to help fellow Republicans counter the counters. So said senatorial candidate Blake Masters (R-Ariz.), speaking for many, in a Friday interview on Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Since then, Masters’ race was called for his opponent, incumbent Democrat Mark Kelly. Yet the election was marred by so many suspicious “mishaps” that President Trump, also speaking for many, said that Democrats “stole” the election from Masters and that it should be done “over again.”
Yet despite the vote fraud — which apparently did occur — Masters holds McConnell largely responsible. As he told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Friday:
You know what else is incompetent, Tucker? The establishment. The people who control the purse strings. Senate Leadership Fund, Mitch McConnell. McConnell decided to spend millions of dollars attacking a fellow Republican in Alaska instead of helping me defeat Senator Mark Kelly. Had he decided to spend money in Arizona this race would be over. We’d be celebrating a senate majority right now. So my message to the people of Maricopa, my message actually to the Republican Senators, hopefully my future colleagues. Let’s not vote Mitch McConnell into leadership. He doesn’t deserve to be majority leader or minority leader. [Video below.]
The Alaska situation Masters referenced involved McConnell’s support for unprincipled establishment Senator Lisa Murkowski, who is trying to beat back challenger Kelly Tshibaka. The race is still undecided, with 71 percent of the vote in, perhaps because Alaskans chose to institute a convoluted “ranked choice” voting system; this is “where candidates run together in a nonpartisan primary, and the top four finishers advance to the general election, in which voters rank their preferences,” as CNN puts it.
Murkowski had supported this innovation, perhaps believing it would preserve her power as it appears to benefit plain vanilla, “uncontroversial” candidates. This said, she waded into some controversy when she voted to impeach President Trump during his second trial, inspiring the Alaska Republican Party to censure her and state it was going to recruit a challenger to oust her. Murkowski also revealed that she didn’t vote for Trump in 2020.
Despite McConnell’s support (or maybe because of it?), Murkowski currently trails Tshibaka by 1.4 percent, or less than 3,000 votes. Of course, while money lavished on inferior candidates is always wasted, if Murkowski loses, even her supporters may lament that the millions McConnell devoted to her campaign were spent in vain.
Don’t expect McConnell to then regret not having directed those funds toward Masters, however. After all, many contend that the Kentucky Republican would rather see Democrats retain Senate control (as they have) than the GOP win it through the election of MAGA candidates such as Masters. This is for a simple reason: The latter won’t vote to keep McConnell as the Republicans’ leader.
From a psychological standpoint this makes sense: Far too many politicians are power mongers, and such people would rather reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
But while McConnell may be somewhat pleased, Trump was anything but, and, in his usual take-no-prisoners style, said what many believe. As he wrote on Truth Social:
So in Maricopa County they’re at it again. Voting Machines in large numbers didn’t work, but only in Republican districts. People were forced to wait for hours, then got exhausted or had other things to do and left the voting lines by the thousands. Even [GOP Arizona gubernatorial candidate] Kari Lake was taken to a Liberal Democrat district in order to vote. Others weren’t so lucky. This is a scam and voter fraud, no different than stuffing the ballot boxes. They stole the Electron from Blake Masters. Do Election over again!
There’s a strange thing, too, about these long waits that might have deterred voting. The mainstream media normally complain that such happenings represent “voter suppression.” Curiously, though, they’re conspicuously silent in this case.
Also note that Lake’s opponent, Katie Hobbs, is Arizona’s secretary of state — the official who runs and certifies elections. So one could wonder: Were the long lines really an accident?
What’s more, there’s much circumstantial evidence of vote fraud. Consider that Lake had said a few days ago that she was 100 percent sure of victory, based on her understanding that the remaining uncounted ballots were from Election Day and that most of them were cast by Republicans.
In other words, many Democrats voted early via mail-in ballots while GOP voters, reluctant to send in their votes through the Post Office, delivered them personally on Election Day. In fact, according to The Gateway Pundit (GP), the following are the Election Day numbers:
- Republican returns constituted 52.7 percent of the vote.
- “Other” returns constituted 30.7 percent.
- Democrat returns constituted 16.6 percent.
Yet when these votes were counted, Lake won only “51.8% of the 85,000 Maricopa ballots on Saturday night,” according to GP, and only “54% of the 97,000 Maricopa ballots on Sunday night.”
Now, GP explains that the “‘other’ category is likely independents leaning Republican and Republican voters who refuse to talk to liberal pollsters.” This means that “Maricopa County election officials want you to believe that ALL of the independent voters on election day voted Democrat in Maricopa County,” GP later points out.
If GP’s numbers and analysis are correct, they reveal an impossibility: Having all Independent voters break for just one major party is about as likely as tossing a coin and getting heads 1,000 times in a row.
But there is an explanation. As cartoonist Thomas Nash wrote in 1871, commenting on corrupt Democratic political machine Tammany Hall, “In Counting there is strength.”
