No sooner did I say that Ol’ Pornstache himself, Eric Hovde, had to shit or get off the pot by either conceding or asking for a recount, that he replied by standing up and shitting himself.
In an almost five minute long video, the California carpetbanker launched into his own version of the Big Lie. Among his baseless accusations was that the City of Milwaukee had a late night “ballot dump” of 108,000 ballots and that they were highly suspect because they were mostly Democratic. He also went on to say he was on track to win until that ballot dump.
While it is true that the absentee ballots did not get reported until 4 am, it was well reported that they weren’t going to finish the count until the wee hours on Wednesday because Republicans in the state legislature refused to pass a law allowing election clerks to start counting all those absentee ballots until Tuesday morning. So, if he wants to gripe, blame his fellow Republicans. And no, it’s not surprising that the second largest Democratic bastion in the state would vote mostly Democratic. Maybe if Hovde was from Wisconsin, he would have known that. And thirdly, Republican operatives were saying throughout the night that they were concerned that Hovde did not have a large enough lead to withstand the late votes coming in from Milwaukee.
