Florida
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 11:27 am
Pro-Trump candidate in Florida is blaming election fraud for his humiliating defeat
Sky Palma
January 14, 2022
There was a congressional election this week in Florida's 20th congressional district, giving the win to Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick to succeed the late Rep. Alcee Hastings, who died in April 2021.
While McCormick was expected to win in the heavily Democratic district, her GOP rival Jason Mariner filed a lawsuit claiming there was a problem with the ballots in Palm Beach and Broward Counties.
"Now they called the race, I did not win, so they say, but that does not mean that they lost either, it does not mean that we lost," said Mariner.
“And we’ll also have some stuff coming out that we’ve recently discovered,” he said.
According to the final tally, McCormick won with 78.7 percent of the vote, while Mariner received only 19.6 percent.
Writing for MSNBC, Steve Benen contends that while the merits of Mariner's lawsuit will play out in court, it could be a worrisome sign that more and more Republican politicians will claim voter fraud or irregularities as a means to challenge their election losses in the future.
https://www.rawstory.com/jason-mariner- ... ud-claims/