I know you are deeply shocked:
North Carolina Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, champion of the country’s most notorious anti-LGBTQ law, lost his bid for re-election on Nov. 8—at last count, by 7,448 votes. Yet nearly two weeks later, McCrory still refuses to concede. Instead, he and his legal team are baselessly alleging that the results were tainted by fraud, petitioning election boards to review the results and determine their validity. McCrory is not so obtuse as to think he can actually overtake his opponent, Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper, in raw votes. His strategy is more insidious: He seems intent on delaying the formal declaration of a winner—and delegitimizing the voting process—in order to let the Republican-dominated legislature ignore the true result and re-install McCrory as governor for another four years.
Let’s see, Senate Republicans will stonewall the Constitution to deny Obama a Supreme court appointment because an election is pending more than a year out. North Carolina Republicans will by-pass a recount that they will lose to appoint the loser of their own party to the governor’s office, and rev erse the judicial election that they favor to the State Supreme Court by packing the bench with new appointments made by the defeated lame duck governor to create a now larger court that meets the conservative mandate they just lost to the voters and protects the illegality of their gubernatorial coupe. Sure looks like a banana republican Party to me.