January 4, 2021: Sore Loser Donald Refuses to Concede

 

1/4/21: Remember way back when? Candidate Trump promised if he were elected, we’d get so tired of winning, we’d have to go to therapy. Now the president (for sixteen more days) has a new plan for winning.

Clinton lost a closer race in 2016.

She still conceded in the early hours of the next morning.

 

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“In an American election, there are no losers because whether or not our candidates are successful, the next morning we all wake up as Americans.” 

John Kerry, conceding defeat the day after the 2004 election

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You are probably thinking, “He’s going to focus on winning the battle to get vaccines out to the American people. He’s going spend his last days in office battling the spread of COVID-19.” 

 Nope. Trump has lost interest. He says the death toll from the virus has been “exaggerated” and calls it “Fake News.” The CDC, however, posts the numbers every day. On December 31, another 3,298 Americans “fake” died from coronavirus. That brought the total for December to

 

75,495 “fake” dead.

 

The New Year isn’t starting off much better. People keep fake-dying and fake-getting sent to the hospital: 

1/1:  2,428 dead.

1/2:  2,321 dead.

1/3:  1,418 dead.

 

Another 128,210 Americans were hospitalized on January 4. That’s the worst figure since the start of the pandemic.

 

 

POSTSCRIPT: On January 4, Bill Cunningham, a syndicated radio host and big fan of Donald J. Trump tells listeners, “I will never surrender and collapse and act as if it’s OK when hundreds of thousands have voted illegally.” 

 

“It is time to go to war.” 

That same day, Glen Beck, a right-wing radio star, tells his audience of more than ten million that, “It is time to rip and claw and rake. It is time to go to war, as the left went to war four years ago.” 

This blogger decides to check. Didn’t Hillary Clinton concede defeat almost immediately in 2016? According to USA Today, the Associated Press called the race at 2:30 a.m. on November 9, technically the day after Election Day. Clinton called Mr. Trump “about ten minutes later.” 

“Concession made,” the paper noted. “Democracy served.”

 

The paper also highlighted concession speeches in previous elections. Despite a close and contested vote in Ohio, in 2004, John Kerry conceded the following day. “In an American election,” he said, “there are no losers because whether or not our candidates are successful, the next morning we all wake up as Americans.” 

By late evening, on Election Day, in 2008, Sen. John McCain knew he had been beaten by Sen. Barack Obama. With his wife Cindy by his side, he assured supporters gathered (they had hoped) to celebrate victory, “It’s natural, tonight, to feel some disappointment. But tomorrow, we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again.” The defeated candidate appealed to all Americans to help Obama “find the necessary compromises to bridge our differences.” 

In 2012, it was Mitt Romney’s turn. He conceded in the early morning hours of the day after the election. I went to the Washington Post to find a transcript of his speech. “I have just called President Obama to congratulate him on his victory,” Romney told those who had tried to make him the next president of the United States. The defeated candidate continued:

 

His supporters and his campaign also deserve congratulations. I wish all of them well, but particularly the president, the first lady and their daughters.

 

(APPLAUSE)

 

This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.

 

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OR, YOU HAVE Team Trump. When news broke today about Trump’s phone call to Georgia officials, the president’s lawyer, Kurt Hilbert, had no choice but to admit he was disappointed. 

In Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger! 

The nerve of that guy, recording a conversation in which Trump basically asks him to gift him enough votes to win the state. Hilbert said it was too bad a “confidential settlement discussion” had been recorded and released to the free press.

 

Also weighing in on the call, and calling it “disgusting” that Georgia election officials found it necessary to record the president, is Sen. David Perdue. He really wants to win a special election on Jan. 5. 

“I guess I was raised differently,” he says. 

Apparently, Perdue was raised to have the strong principles and moral character of a mushroom. 

Meanwhile, Sore Loser Don visits Georgia in person. In theory, he’s there to campaign for Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, running in a special election to keep their seats in the U.S. Senate. He tells the crowd he would have conceded his own loss graciously, if he had been defeated fairly, “but when you win in a landslide and they steal it and it’s rigged, it’s not acceptable.” 

He goes on to insist, “There’s no way we lost Georgia. That was a rigged election, but we’ll see what’s going to happen.” 

The Republican secretary of state, and the Republican governor of Georgia have already told Sore Loser Don he lost, and lost a fair race.

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE (6/27/21): We know now that the news on January 5 only made Sore Loser Donald sorer.