Texas’ lieutenant governor on Thursday and said Democrats’ only chance at electoral success this year is through outright theft of the vote.
The comment from Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) echoed the line from President Donald Trump, who’s said that the only legitimate outcome of the election is his own reelection.
“The Democrats have just decided this election, Mark, we don’t have to pay attention to any laws,” Patrick told radio host Mark Davis in an interview Thursday flagged by the Texas Tribune.
“We’re gonna use COVID as an excuse to steal the election, and that’s what they’re trying to do everywhere,” he added. “If the president loses Pennsylvania or North Carolina, Mark, or Florida, they’ll lose it because they stole it.”
Trump has similarly said that Democrats will only win through fraud: “The only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged,” he said in August, one of a number of lines undermining voters’ faith in the democratic process.
Despite those comments, polls have shown a relatively tight race for the presidency and U.S. Senate in Texas.
When you are making excuses, you are loosing
Vote like your life depends on it because it does…
Silent part out loud… Why do these totalitarian patriarchal theocrats hate democracy so much?
Maybe he’s seeing the end of the days when all you have to do in Texas is stick an (R-TX) next to your name to win elections. That’s how he got elected.
This is the same guy who said older people should sacrifice themselves in the pandemic
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-comes-under-fire-for-saying-seniors-should-take-a-chance-on-their-own-lives-for-sake-of-grandchildren-during-coronavirus-crisis/2020/03/24/e6f64858-6de6-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html
Is Lt. Governor Patrick near the end of his life yet so he can save the economy?