"We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected."
Resolution: Jackson County, Oregon Republicans
This is how Republicans lose elections.
The Republican Party of Jackson County Oregon made an unforced error. It decided to declare itself full-on Trump election-denialist wacko. Lucky for Democrats.
The county GOP announced that the 2000 Mules documentary "irrefutably proves election fraud," and that "substantial election fraud in key metropolitan areas significantly affected the results in five key states." Therefore, it concludes that Biden is a mere "acting president" and that he was not legitimately elected.
The GOP here has gone wacko. It was an unforced error. Nobody required the county GOP plant a flag on behalf of Trump's stolen election claim. The resolution addresses internal tensions within the GOP. Are you a true-believing Trump-supporting Republican, including the Big Lie? Or are you a RINO, a Republican in Name Only? To be an authentic Republican goes beyond carrying the GOP elephant brand and saying one generally supports Trump and dislikes everything about that terrible President Biden. It requires saying the 2020 election was fraudulent and Biden is illegitimate. One need to be full-on Trump.
The resolution throws Democratic candidates a huge lifeline. The resolution signals that Republicans are extreme and uncompromising. GOP candidates and officeholders in Oregon have generally attempted to "move on" and criticize Democrats rather than defend Trump, January 6, and his claims of a stolen election. At the national level Republicans prefer to talk about inflation, gasoline, Afghanistan, and the southern border. Anything but Trump and the claim of stolen election. In Oregon they express frustration with tent encampments of the homeless, anarchists in Portland, COVID policies, and screw-ups in Oregon administrative departments. There are plenty of good issues for Republicans for a general election. The 2020 election isn't one.
This resolution puts Republicans back into conspiratorial crazy-land. They don't believe the courts--even ones with Republican-appointed judges They don't believe election officials--even Republican ones. They don't believe the reports and conclusions of Trump appointees in his own Justice Department. They believe 2000 Mules and Trump at his most intransigent.
People who believe the 2020 election was stolen are never going to vote for a Democrat. However, there are a range of views within red-state and red-county America. A significant minority of nominally-Republican and Republican-leaning people are turned off by the full-MAGA storyline. A Republican candidate who wants to be perceived as a "normal," congenial, Rotarian, small-town, Chamber of Commerce, easy to get along with Republican might normally have an easy campaign in light-red areas like Jackson County, Oregon. Such a candidate might need to take an uncompromising, unpopular point of view on abortion, but that isn't a timely issue in Oregon. Access to abortion is likely assured for now. But right now Republicans have a hard choice stuck in front of them. Do candidates stand in support of their own party in saying that Joe Biden is an illegitimate president? Or will they denounce this? Local Republican candidates have a dilemma. If candidates go along with their intra-party friends, they look wacko. If they mumble, they look like enablers-of-wacko. If they denounce the resolution, they look like RINOS.
Republicans are busy doing RINO hunting. It will push into victory some Democrats who might have had a hard election fight in 2022.
Lol, wait for more to follow suit. Douglas County and Josephine County are on the map. It is RINO hunting season and we will secure our elections.
Note that they couldn’t even get the year on the date correct: 20022,more like a zipcode than a year!