The draft report of the Arizona election audit of Maricopa County showed, once again, that former President Donald Trump lost the state. In a logical world, Republicans would quit listening to the confirmed loser as he continues to complain about his loss.
A draft report of the findings shared with both a local NPR affiliate station and the New York Times detailed that a hand recount actually increased President Joe Biden’s lead in the county by 360 votes. Trump then deleted a recent statement from his website about the “highly respected auditors.” Now, he’s maintaining that the final report will actually show he was robbed of his victory — anything to keep the fantasy alive a bit longer.
In case the first loss wasn’t clear enough, this would confirm that Trump lost the state of Arizona, a state that Republicans had not lost since 1996. Trump became only the second Republican to lose Arizona going back to 1952.
Trump also became the first Republican to lose Georgia since George H.W. Bush in 1992. He became the first presidential candidate to lose despite winning the electorally powerful state of Florida since 1992 and the first to lose despite winning Ohio, another historically powerful state in the Electoral College, since 1944.
And if Trump can’t win, no one can.
He is still targeting Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp because Kemp refused to rig the election in Trump’s favor. His anger with Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for not overturning his embarrassing election loss in the state led to him throwing away the GOP’s Senate majority. And targeting Kemp in 2022 could lead to it happening all again, as Republicans try to win back the Senate seat now held by Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.
Yes, Trump is now in a statistical tie with Biden in favorability amid rumblings that Trump will run against him in a 2024 rematch. But that’s because Biden and his scandals and failures are front and center in the news every day. Trump’s numbers have improved since he left the White House. And even then, former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have bigger leads over their Biden administration counterparts.
Trump is still an election loser who is nearly single-handedly responsible for Biden becoming president and for giving Democrats unified control of the federal government. He’s a sore loser who is more interested in defeating Republicans and trying to prove his fantasy victory than he is helping stop the Democratic agenda. The Republican Party needs to move on.
