AZ-Democrat Kyrsten Sinema Wins Battle to Replace Sen. Jeff Flake

[Anti Federalist]

Just had to "find" a few more boxes of ballots.

I'm sure they will "find" plenty in Florida too.


Democrat Kyrsten Sinema Wins Battle to Replace Sen. Jeff Flake

https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-election/2018/11/12/democrat-kyrsten-sinema-wins-battle-to-replace-sen-jeff-flake/

12 Nov 2018

Democrat congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema was declared the winner of Arizona’s U.S. Senate race Monday night, almost a week after final midterm election votes were cast.

Republican Martha McSally showed an early lead in the race to replace Sen. Jeff Flake as one of Arizona’s two U.S. Senators, but after two days of vote counting, that lead flipped to Democrat Sinema. That lead widened as Maricopa County released batch after batch of vote results. As of Monday evening, Sinema had garnered 49.68 percent of the vote to McSally’s 47.96 percent, a difference of 1.72 percent and over 38,000 votes. Sinema had 1,097,321 votes to McSally’s 1,059,124 votes at the time.

The Associated Press called the race for Sinema late Monday.


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Maricopa County votes made up nearly 60 percent of total votes cast and counted as of Monday night.

McSally issued a video concession Monday after AP called the race for Sinema. She congratulated Sinema as the first female U.S. Senator from Arizona and thanked her supporters:

Much criticism has been lodged against vote counting methods and in particular those of Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes. Fontes was a strong supporter both publicly and financially, of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ run for president in 2016. He has been criticized in the 2018 midterm elections for handling of ballots where voter information didn’t match. Several county Republican parties filed a lawsuit against all Arizona county vote recorders and the Arizona Secretary of State last week over the methods used to verify those questionable ballots. A judge determined Friday that recorders would have until Wednesday, a week following the election, to verify those votes.

[Anti Federalist]

Mrs. AF may be right on this.

She maintains that the vote theft can only happen in very close races.

That the powers that be give up in a "landslide".

I reckon that means Trump won the popular vote by 10 million or so.

;)

[enhanced_deficit]

Hopefully the Democrat winner also "loves this country" like Pelosi does.

For recent GOP Senate seat loss in AL, credit was given to Jarvanka-RINO wing of GOP.
MAGA gets the credit for this great service?


Trump boasts about having 'retired' Flake: 'I did the country a great service'
By Tal Axelrod - 11/07/18
President Trump on Wednesday boasted that he "retired" Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.), a top GOP critic of the president who is leaving the Senate after this year.
“In Jeff Flake’s case it’s me, pure and simple. I retired him. I’m very proud of it, I did the country a great service," Trump said during a sprawling press conference at the White House a day after the midterm elections.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/415553-trump-i-retired-jeff-flake

[RJ Liberty]

What evidence is there that they found boxes of ballots? Most Arizonans vote in the week ahead of Election Day.

McSally was a war hawk, and pushed for massively increased military spending. I won't miss her.

[Zippyjuan]

Several county Republican parties filed a lawsuit against all Arizona county vote recorders and the Arizona Secretary of State last week over the methods used to verify those questionable ballots.

The Arizona Secretary of State who is in charge of elections is currently Republican.

[Swordsmyth]

The Arizona Secretary of State who is in charge of elections is currently Republican.
So are many Demoncrats and NeverTrumpers.

[Zippyjuan]

This leaves two Senate seats still undecided. Mississippi is headed for a run-off election on November 27th (no candidate got over 50%- there were seven of them- the top two now will face off) and Florida is being recounted. If Democrats get both of those, the Senate will be the same as before the election- 51 Republicans, two independents (who tend to vote with the Democrats) and 47 Democrats.

[Swordsmyth]

This leaves two Senate seats still undecided. Mississippi is headed for a run-off election on November 27th and Florida is being recounted. If Democrats get both of those, the Senate will be the same as before the election- 51 Republicans, two independents (who tend to vote with the Democrats) and 47 Democrats.
Mississippi is a lock for the Republicans and the voter fraud in Fl. will fail.

There may yet be an expanded voter fraud investigation that will rectify other races as well.

[ILUVRP]

kyl was appointed to take mccain's seat , mcsally knows she will win the election to replace kly , that is why see did not make any comments while the vote counting was going on .

[Swordsmyth]

kyl was appointed to take mccain's seat , mcsally knows she will win the election to replace kly , that is why see did not make any comments while the vote counting was going on .
Probably, that is another reason I hope she loses in the primary to replace Kyl.

[Brian4Liberty]

Karl Rove, Bill Kristol and the establishment are just happy that they were able to defeat Kelli Ward in the primary. They don’t care that it went to a Democrat as long as Rand didn’t get a new ally in the Senate.

Kelli Ward probably could have won, but everyone knew that McSally was another neocon liar like McCain. She didn’t generate any enthusiasm from voters, no matter how hard the MSM pushed her.

[RJ Liberty]

Karl Rove, Bill Kristol and the establishment are just happy that they were able to defeat Kelli Ward in the primary. They don’t care that it went to a Democrat as long as Rand didn’t get a new ally in the Senate.

Kelli Ward probably could have won, but everyone knew that McSally was another neocon liar like McCain. She didn’t generate any enthusiasm from voters, no matter how hard the MSM pushed her.

Yup. All of that.

[Anti Federalist]

Karl Rove, Bill Kristol and the establishment are just happy that they were able to defeat Kelli Ward in the primary. They don’t care that it went to a Democrat as long as Rand didn’t get a new ally in the Senate.

Kelli Ward probably could have won, but everyone knew that McSally was another neocon liar like McCain. She didn’t generate any enthusiasm from voters, no matter how hard the MSM pushed her.

Agreed

[ThePaleoLibertarian]

So thousands and thousands of Republicans in Maricopa County voted for a Republican for Governor, but then turned around and voted Democrat for Senate? What sense does that make? This is very fishy. Either there are some shenanigans going on or McCain really castrated the Arizona GOP worse than I ever imagined.

[Swordsmyth]

So thousands and thousands of Republicans in Maricopa County voted for a Republican for Governor, but then turned around and voted Democrat for Senate? What sense does that make? This is very fishy. Either there are some shenanigans going on or McCain really castrated the Arizona GOP worse than I ever imagined.
Probably a combination of voter fraud and NeverTrumpers trying to virtue signal.

[Anti Globalist]

Karl Rove, Bill Kristol and the establishment are just happy that they were able to defeat Kelli Ward in the primary. They don’t care that it went to a Democrat as long as Rand didn’t get a new ally in the Senate.

Kelli Ward probably could have won, but everyone knew that McSally was another neocon liar like McCain. She didn’t generate any enthusiasm from voters, no matter how hard the MSM pushed her.
Pretty much this.

[swissaustrian]

Don't you dare to talk bad about Sinema, otherwise she might make her personal witches put a spell on you! This is NOT from the Onion:

Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, is not a witch. But she has been known to hang out with witches. It was during the height of the Iraq War when Sinema, then a far-left protest organizer, summoned supernatural help to stop the Iraq War.
Emails obtained by the Washington Examiner show Sinema inviting a prominent coven of feminist witches in Arizona called Pagan Cluster to celebrate International Women’s Day and to protest the war in March of 2003. Code Pink protesters wore pink, obviously enough, and the Women in Black wore black. But Sinema encouraged the witches to wear “colorful clothing and come ready to dance, twirl, and stay in touch with your inner creativity and with the Earth.”
The Sinema campaign would not say why she invited the witches or clarify why she thought members of the occult deserved a seat at the table during discussions concerning war and peace. The witches in question, it should be noted, claim to practice only nonviolent magic.
...
This sort of hocus pocus wasn't isolated either. Later that year, in November, Sinema attended a similar anti-war rally, this one in Miami and with other pagans. In emails obtained by the Washington Examiner and archived online via the WaybackMachine, she writes about "singing and spiraling in the pagan's circle only 5 rows back from the police line." The magic was not enough to stop a police crackdown apparently. Sinema described the subsequent crowd control and arrests as "brutal."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/emails-kyrsten-sinema-summoned-witches-to-her-anti-war-rally

[Anti Federalist]

Mississippi is a lock for the Republicans.

Not by a long shot anymore. (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/12/democrats-aim-for-surprise-upset-in-special-mississippi-senate-runoff-election/)

[nobody's_hero]

So thousands and thousands of Republicans in Maricopa County voted for a Republican for Governor, but then turned around and voted Democrat for Senate? What sense does that make? This is very fishy. Either there are some shenanigans going on or McCain really castrated the Arizona GOP worse than I ever imagined.

It's like that across the country. Some variation of:

"Let's pick a republican governor but a democrat house member but a republican senator."

No one is scrutinizing these oddities because no one seems to want to be the one to find the turd in the punch bowl.

I only see one solution, and it will never pass:

remove secret ballots. Remove the guesswork. I understand the reason why ballots became secret over the years, but it wasn't always that way. At the start, voting in this country was very public and there was a hell of a lot more transparency than there is today. Yeah you had corruption with vote buying. We have that today, only it's harder to trace.

[William Tell]

Mississippi is a lock for the Republicans

That's what we all said about Alabama. MS should be but depending on turnout and what they dredge up all bets are off. Plus the Republican has trashed McDaniel's supporters, and they are the voters she needs.

[Anti Federalist]

That's what we all said about Alabama. MS should be but depending on turnout and what they dredge up all bets are off. Plus the Republican has trashed McDaniel's supporters, and they are the voters she needs.

See post 18.

Whoever the broad is that's running in MS, just made some wisecrack about "being at the front row at a hanging" remark, and the diversity is in an uproar over it.

[angelatc]

I reckon that means Trump won the popular vote by 10 million or so.

;)

i don't want to dox anybody but one of our circa 2007 activist members is very politically active in AZ. He switched his registration to I a few years back. He voted for the Dem for several reasons, one of which is that the GOP pulled some legal shenanigans that got all the Libertarians kicked off the ballot.

Based on his posts over the years...not limited to this race...the GOP there is as corrupt as the Dems.

[angelatc]

There may yet be an expanded voter fraud investigation that will rectify other races as well.

That's cute that you believe that.

[Brian4Liberty]

So thousands and thousands of Republicans in Maricopa County voted for a Republican for Governor, but then turned around and voted Democrat for Senate? What sense does that make? This is very fishy. Either there are some shenanigans going on or McCain really castrated the Arizona GOP worse than I ever imagined.

Don’t underestimate the anger of the grassroots GOP voters that Lyin’ Martha McSally was forced down their throats by the MIC/neocon establishment during the GOP Primary.

[jllundqu]

McSally was a terrible candidate. Gov. Ducey won easily, but Mcsally loses? So... many thousands of people in AZ voted for Ducey (R) then went down-ballot and voted Sinema (D)?

One thing is certain... the transplants from California and New York are metastasizing and spreading.... Texas, Arizona may never elect another republican.

[Brian4Liberty]

McSally was a terrible candidate. Gov. Ducey won easily, but Mcsally loses? So... many thousands of people in AZ voted for Ducey (R) then went down-ballot and voted Sinema (D)?

One thing is certain... the transplants from California and New York are metastasizing and spreading.... Texas, Arizona may never elect another republican.

No need to worry. Massive immigration and displacement of California leftists will never effect your State... (Whoops, never mind.)

Wasn’t Kokesh a write-in for Senate?

[jllundqu]

No need to worry. Massive immigration and displacement of California leftists will never effect your State... (Whoops, never mind.)

Wasn’t Kokesh a write-in for Senate?

Yes Kokesh was, but Arizona is so shitty they don't list Libertarian party candidates on the actual ballot so it's write-in only.

[Cleaner44]

The Arizona Secretary of State who is in charge of elections is currently Republican.

Adrian Fontes is the county recorder of Maricopa County and he is a Democrat. Fontes is in charge of counting votes here.

https://ballotpedia.org/Adrian_Fontes

[Swordsmyth]

Don't you dare to talk bad about Sinema, otherwise she might make her personal witches put a spell on you! This is NOT from the Onion:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/emails-kyrsten-sinema-summoned-witches-to-her-anti-war-rally

Considering how successful her coven was at stopping the Iraq war I'm not worried.

[Swordsmyth]

Not by a long shot anymore. (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/12/democrats-aim-for-surprise-upset-in-special-mississippi-senate-runoff-election/)
I don't buy it, the "Blue Trickle" has run its course and the two Republicans got more than 50% by a comfortable margin.

[Swordsmyth]

It's like that across the country. Some variation of:

"Let's pick a republican governor but a democrat house member but a republican senator."

No one is scrutinizing these oddities because no one seems to want to be the one to find the turd in the punch bowl.

I only see one solution, and it will never pass:

remove secret ballots. Remove the guesswork. I understand the reason why ballots became secret over the years, but it wasn't always that way. At the start, voting in this country was very public and there was a hell of a lot more transparency than there is today. Yeah you had corruption with vote buying. We have that today, only it's harder to trace.
I don't know what the best solution is but one of the main reasons for the secret ballot was to prevent retaliation and it is becoming ever more popular to destroy people's lives over politics these days.

[ThePaleoLibertarian]

Probably a combination of voter fraud and NeverTrumpers trying to virtue signal.
Ducey campaigned with Trump too, though. McSally was a former Bushie who marketed herself as a reformed "Trump Republican". If there was any anger toward her, I would wager it was because of her past, not because of her supposedly Trumpian present.

[Swordsmyth]

Ducey campaigned with Trump too, though. McSally was a former Bushie who marketed herself as a reformed "Trump Republican". If there was any anger toward her, I would wager it was because of her past, not because of her supposedly Trumpian present.
True, but NeverTrumpers want the Demoncrats to take control of Congress in order to block or impeach him.

[Brian4Liberty]

McSally was a war hawk, and pushed for massively increased military spending. I won't miss her.


Don't you dare to talk bad about Sinema, otherwise she might make her personal witches put a spell on you! This is NOT from the Onion:


Later that year, in November, Sinema attended a similar anti-war rally

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/emails-kyrsten-sinema-summoned-witches-to-her-anti-war-rally

There you go, the glass is half full...

[AuH20]

Glad she lost.

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[AuH20]

Neocon moderates aren't popular.

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[AuH20]

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[Working Poor]

Dammit I wish Bush jr had had this much"resistance. Where were the libatards back then?

[juleswin]

So thousands and thousands of Republicans in Maricopa County voted for a Republican for Governor, but then turned around and voted Democrat for Senate? What sense does that make? This is very fishy. Either there are some shenanigans going on or McCain really castrated the Arizona GOP worse than I ever imagined.

Which is it? it seems right now the consensus here is that she lost because she wasn't pro Trump enough.

[Swordsmyth]

Which is it? it seems right now the consensus here is that she lost because she wasn't pro Trump enough.
She wasn't anything enough, whether or not there was election fraud it was only close enough for fraud to work because she gave nobody a reason to vote for her.

I read an article earlier that said almost all of her ads were attacking Sinema without giving any reason to vote for McSally.

Studies show that contrast ads are the most effective and pure attack ads are the least effective with self-promotion ads coming in somewhere inbetween.

[juleswin]

She wasn't anything enough, whether or not there was election fraud it was only close enough for fraud to work because she gave nobody a reason to vote for her.

I read an article earlier that said almost all of her ads were attacking Sinema without giving any reason to vote for McSally.

Studies show that contrast ads are the most effective and pure attack ads are the least effective with self-promotion ads coming in somewhere inbetween.

I feel the same way about contrast ads cos it gives the pol to promote his policies while criticizing his/her opponents. But to the point I was trying to make, it seems like she just lost the race as opposed to some nefarious plotting by the dems.

[Swordsmyth]

Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) kept quite during the 2018 midterm elections regarding any possible endorsements. Now, the Republican senator is congratulating his Democrat successor, saying she’ll “do great,” even after weeks of controversial statements by Kyrsten Sinema.

Sinema received a lot of backlash after videos (https://ijr.com/video-resurfaces-sinema-trashing-arizona/) and an interview resurfaced showing the candidate bashing her own state.
The newly-elected Democrat senator called Arizona the warning state for the rest of the U.S., “the meth lab of democracy,” as well as calling Arizonians “crazy,” and sharing her support (https://ijr.com/kyrsten-sinema-backs-border-troops/) for Americans to go to fight for the Taliban.
However, despite the now-senator’s controversial remarks, Flake congratulated Sinema after the tight race against Republican candidate Martha McSally.
“Congratulations to @kyrstensinema on a race well run, and won. It’s been a wonderful honor representing Arizona in the Senate. You’ll be great,” he wrote.

More at: https://ijr.com/flake-az-senate-race-congratulate-dem/

Flake is a Demoncrat in Swampublican clothing.

[juleswin]

Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) kept quite during the 2018 midterm elections regarding any possible endorsements. Now, the Republican senator is congratulating his Democrat successor, saying she’ll “do great,” even after weeks of controversial statements by Kyrsten Sinema.

Sinema received a lot of backlash after videos (https://ijr.com/video-resurfaces-sinema-trashing-arizona/) and an interview resurfaced showing the candidate bashing her own state.
The newly-elected Democrat senator called Arizona the warning state for the rest of the U.S., “the meth lab of democracy,” as well as calling Arizonians “crazy,” and sharing her support (https://ijr.com/kyrsten-sinema-backs-border-troops/) for Americans to go to fight for the Taliban.
However, despite the now-senator’s controversial remarks, Flake congratulated Sinema after the tight race against Republican candidate Martha McSally.
“Congratulations to @kyrstensinema on a race well run, and won. It’s been a wonderful honor representing Arizona in the Senate. You’ll be great,” he wrote.

More at: https://ijr.com/flake-az-senate-race-congratulate-dem/

Flake is a Demoncrat in Swampublican clothing.

For god sake the man voted for Judge Kavanugh amongst many other Trump nominee/ agendas. How dare u accuse him of being a RINO.

[Swordsmyth]

For god sake the man voted for Judge Kavanugh amongst many other Trump nominee/ agendas. How dare u accuse him of being a RINO.
LOL

Flake had proven he was a RINO long ago, now he is becoming a Demoncrat.

[Swordsmyth]

This leaves two Senate seats still undecided. Mississippi is headed for a run-off election on November 27th (no candidate got over 50%- there were seven of them- the top two now will face off) and Florida is being recounted. If Democrats get both of those, the Senate will be the same as before the election- 51 Republicans, two independents (who tend to vote with the Democrats) and 47 Democrats.


Mississippi is a lock for the Republicans and the voter fraud in Fl. will fail.

There may yet be an expanded voter fraud investigation that will rectify other races as well.


Not by a long shot anymore. (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/12/democrats-aim-for-surprise-upset-in-special-mississippi-senate-runoff-election/)


I don't buy it, the "Blue Trickle" has run its course and the two Republicans got more than 50% by a comfortable margin.

In the last major race of the midterm campaign, Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith claimed victory in Mississippi’s closely watched Senate runoff election, defeating Democrat Mike Espy

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-hyde-smith-holds-seat-mississippi-senate-race-034202805.html

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