Siphons off just enough votes!
We’ve said before Democrats fight dirty. But, like the late and unlamented Senate majority leader Harry Reid* crowed after being caught in one scam, “We won, didn’t we?” *
( * “Harry Reid’s appalling defense of his attack on Mitt Romney” — Washington Post.)
Running as a third-party candidate, a Democrat(ic) plant named Thomas Leager siphoned off just enough votes to deny Republican Eric Hovde a U.S. Senate seat from Wisconsin. Hovde came up 28,952 votes short of unseating Tammy Baldwin (according to tabulations at 12 noon 11-06-24). Leager received 28,717 votes. Combined with just a few of the 42,349 from another independent, Phil Anderson, that was more than enough to deny Hovde a victory against three-term, Democrat(ic) incumbent Tammy Baldwin.
| Tammy Baldwin | Democrat | 1,672,550 |
| Eric Hovde | Republican | 1,643,592 |
| Phil Anderson | Independent | 42,349 |
| Thomas Leager | America First | 28,717 |
At National Review, Rich Lowry gave fair warning back in October: The Democratic plant who could throw the Wisconsin senate race.” Leager “is supposedly the ‘America First’ candidate but is really the product of a Democratic conspiracy to tank the GOP in close congressional races. Quoting the Associated Press:
Records show Democrats have given tens of thousands of dollars seeking ballot access for the far-right candidates. The supporters include [big-time donor David] Steinglass and his wife, Liz, who have given more than $5 million to support Democratic political groups, and others who have contributed to and worked for Democratic candidates.
Hovde said earlier today: “We’re certainly disappointed that the Democrats’ effort to siphon votes with a fraudulent candidate had a significant impact on the race, with those votes making up more than the entire margin of the race right now.” Well, almost.
Because his apparent defeat was within 1 percent, Hovde would be entitled to a free recount.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Democrats are the same defenders of democracy that tried to boot Jill Stein off the presidential ballot and fought to keep an unwilling candidate, Robert Kennedy Jr., on.
Who said politics was fair?
T’weren’t me!
20 responses to “Democrat(ic) plant defeats Hovde”
IIRC, Mr. Blaska, you unrelentingly distanced yourself from Orangeman Bad and all his works —electorally and rhetorically— which probably didn’t do much much to assist in duly unseating Baldwin; howsoever you may have voted down-ballot.
Why speculate? https://davidblaska.com/2024/11/04/blaskas-ballot-looks-like-this/
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So what’s your claim about Anderson and his 42,000 votes? Maybe us cheeseheads didn’t want a Cali multi-millionaire Flying in here telling us that old people shouldn’t vote, fat people need to pay more for healthcare, a total abortion ban. He’s lucky he got this close.
Eric Hovde is a good man that would have won if not for the Democrat plant and if his opponent wasn’t so desperate to win her campaign, they took statements out of context for ads she approved. She knew Eric lives in Wisconsin but started a rumor that he didn’t. You voted for a cheater that has lived off the taxpayers most of her adult life and believe that is good for the USA.
Never Argue With An Idiot. They Will Drag You Down To Their Level And Beat You With Experience. S. Clemens
“You voted for a cheater that has lived off the taxpayers most of her adult life and believe that is good for the USA.”
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Mortgage rates jumped 9 basis points today and Dementia Don hasn’t even been sworn in yet. Wait for the tariffs to kick in and the national sales tax. The big money guys are licking their chops with Dumb Don in the wings. With worm brain in charge of the FDA you better rent a second garden space. How can you keep a straight face talking about cheaters and taxpayers and Dementia Don in the same sentence. Six bankruptcies, three divorces, 34 felonies, more tax fraud than Madoff. So, take your fat, old butt to the nursing home and play your BINGO.
“Six bankruptcies, three divorces, 34 felonies, more tax fraud than Madoff.”
The felonies will almost certainly be overturned if they get to the Supreme Court. They were concocted with constitutionally unsound legal gymnastics. But that’s beside the point I’m making. Because all those things don’t matter much to:
– The paycheck to paycheck mother of three who can’t afford clothes for her kids because the cost of groceries and gas is up 30%
– The search and rescue volunteer who spent his Saturday picking bodies out of the floodwaters and then got called garbage by his president
– The guy in a border state who’s watched his community get overrun with illegal immigrants, drugs, gangs, and human trafficking and then called racist by Democrats when he objects to it
– The Jewish college student who’s been harassed off her campus by pro-Hamas thugs
– The father who’s told that biological men have a right to be in the same locker room as his teenage daughter
– The salaried office worker that busts her ass 60 hours a week for meager raises and then watches her company hire a gaggle of overpaid, nonbillable DEI directors
– The Israeli expatriate who’s constantly wondering if his friends and family back home will be in the blast zone when Iran deploys its first nuke
– The college athlete who sees biological men competing in her sport and taking awards meant for women
Every one of those people just gave the Democrats a big middle finger. Blaming them for voting how they did is sheer arrogance and a loser’s strategy. If they care about staying relevant, they’d better find another one fast.
But you’re not upset about California billionaires bankrolling your favorite lipstick lesbian?
Because He would not keep his mouth shut on abortion, Trump learned that from 2020. Hovde should have shut up on abortion, not ever gonna win tellingvthem to stop using it for their birth control. Big mistake, so now we have 4 more yrs of nasty Tammy again who raises so much money from those groups.
6 years.
I shed a tear for WI when I heard this. So sad. The dirty tricks not surprising though. People have such short memories when it comes to this blond bombshell.
The Democrats cheated during an election? Say it ain’t so!
Because he would not shut up about abortion like Yrump did in 2020, why he lost.
The Anti-Democratic party cheated? Say it ain’t so!
And a lot figured he was full of crap. Bank in Utah, a mansion in Cali. and he expected us to believe he was a lifelong Wisconsinite living right under our noses. NOT. I’ve lived in this state for decades and had never heard his name. Just another rich guy looking to go into politics as a hobby.
Who said politics was fair? The plant you reveal is part of a long tradition in American politics. Roger Stone is the foremost practitioner.
Roger was the Republican instigator behind Cornell West (2024), Kanye West (2020), Al Sharpton (2004), Shirley Chisholm (1972) and Jesse Jackson. Stone was also behind the Kristin Davis (2010) New York campaign.
To be fair, Shirley and Jesse had no idea what was going on. Al Sharpton knew exactly what was going on and Stone was his de facto campaign manager.
The plant in the 1800 election got its own name – the Burr dilemma.
Despite no written evidence, Douglas (1860) saw Breckinridge as a northern Republican plant. Republicans saw John Bell as a Democratic plant.
Who was the most successful plant? In the 1946 Democratic primary, John Kennedy’s primary opponent was City Councilor Joe Russo. To ensure his victory, they found another Joe Russo and put him on the ballot as well.
Between these two guys there were71,066 votes cast. If these two weren’t running who would these votes go too? Unknown. This is just another chase your tail conspiracy theory and a waste of time.
WI repubs fail again. Tramp took the state on his own. Just keep sending them money. Even dave has his hat out. Why anyone uses PayPal has to be a Commie.