Opinion: Larry Elder's landslide defeat in California is the latest evidence that the stolen election myth is poison for Republicans, writes RichLowry
The best indication that Larry Elder was going down in the California recall wasn’t the polling, although that all swung the wrong way in the final weeks, but his suggestion late in the campaign that Democrats were going to steal the election.
To his credit, Elder graciously conceded on Tuesday night, but his talk of stolen elections was arguably his biggest misstep of the campaign. In the Georgia special Senate elections earlier this year, Trump himself divided the party and suppressed GOP turnout at the margins by trying to make the election about November 2020 as much as possible and accusing Republicans who didn’t go along with his allegations of partisan treason.
Then, Elder got some pushback on Twitter and couldn’t withstand it. Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis tweeted a clip of Elder’s statement: "This could cost @larryelder a lot of votes in California. I fully disagree with his comments here and he was clearly poorly advised." If Elder had been running in a Republican primary in a red state, he would have secured his position nicely with his do-over, but he’d driven a nail in his own coffin in the recall.
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