A curious email showed up in my inbox last Wednesday.
The Wyoming GOP sent an email to its members reflecting on the Thanksgiving holiday and the pilgrims who came to the New World 400 years ago in 1620. The first few paragraphs are legitimately great view of Republican values viewed through the lens of the pilgrims and the Mayflower Compact that was created to ensure the Plymouth Colony would survive.
Three paragraphs from the end is where this message takes a high turn to Crazy Town.
“Today, the evidence of election fraud is at the forefront of our minds. Elections are the voice of our self-governance. If America is no longer a land of free and fair elections, haven’t we then lost our country completely?”
It’s a shame that despite tremendous evidence to the contrary, people and organizations who definitely have something to gain from promoting this idea the Presidential Election was a fraud. It wasn’t and at this point, people who claim it was are either denying reality and objective data or want to prove their loyalty in an attempt to secure some sort of benefit.
The numerous lawsuits filed to contest the results in battleground states haven almost completely failed in their goal to reverse projected wins for President-Elect Joe Biden. As of this writing, only one lawsuit regarding some counties in Pennsylvania was successful and the number of votes that impacts is minuscule at best. Overall, the legal win-loss tally is so dismal that if it were an NFL team, the coach would have been fired long ago. The Supreme Court has even objected to a bid to reverse the Pennsylvania election results.
Ongoing claims including ballots cast by dead people have been proven false and the bizarre menagerie of events surrounding President Donald Trump’s lawyers and others fighting this fight has been laughable at their absolute worst.
Biden won. That’s a mathematical and verifiable fact at this point. The long silence of Wyoming’s GOP-affiliated leadership is troubling in itself. No one has congratulated Biden on his win. Rep. Liz Cheney did offer words calling on the Trump campaign to release the evidence of election tampering, with no avail.
It’s stunning to see the efforts many conservatives are making to place an asterisk next to President-Elect Biden’s name in history and unfortunate Wyoming’s elected officials or the state’s GOP can’t offer a congratulatory message or a vow to work with his administration on issues impacting Wyoming’s residents.
These are troubling times we live in and this is only the latest ploy to undermine the fundamentals of our democracy.
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