“As you know, my opponent, Governor Gavin Newsom,” Elder told an adoring crowd, which interrupted him with boos at the mention of the governor’s name.
“Come on,” said Elder. “Let’s be gracious in defeat. And by the way, we may have lost the battle, but we are going to win the war.”
In previous elections, a candidate conceding an election would be a completely mundane detail. However, Elder’s concession is noteworthy because he has taken a page from Donald Trump’s lately. Trump of course, first alleged an election would be rigged against him in 2016. Speaking at a rally less than a month before the election, Trump called the upcoming contest “one big fix,” thus laying the groundwork to excuse a potential defeat at the polls. He won, of course, but infamously repeated the charge in 2020, and to this day maintains he won the election he lost to Joe Biden.
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