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Defeated Right-Wing Judge Refuses to Concede to Victor He Deems Not 'Worthy'

Daniel #Kelly, the right-wing former #Wisconsin #Supreme #Court justice who lost his bid to re-join the high court on Tuesday as liberal circuit court judge Janet #Protasiewicz won by a decisive margin, **refused to concede** to his opponent in a speech that one critic said personified the Republican Party's approach to electoral politics in recent years.

"It brings me no joy to say this," Kelly told supporters. "I wish that in a circumstance like this, I would be able to concede to a #worthy opponent. But I do not have a worthy opponent to which I can concede."

A number of losing GOP candidates have demanded #recounts, claimed their elections were "#rigged," and spread baseless #conspiracy #theories about voting #irregularities.

"Among the Trumpian core of the Republican Party, this has become #mainstream," Rick Hasen, the director of UCLA Law's Safeguarding Democracy Project, told Axios last year. "It's exceedingly #dangerous, because a #democracy depends on losers' #consent."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/dan-kelly-wisconsin-concede

Defeated Right-Wing Judge Refuses to Concede to Victor He Deems Not 'Worthy'

Daniel #Kelly, the right-wing former #Wisconsin #Supreme #Court justice who lost his bid to re-join the high court on Tuesday as liberal circuit court judge Janet #Protasiewicz won by a decisive margin, **refused to concede** to his opponent in a speech that one critic said personified the Republican Party's approach to electoral politics in recent years.

"It brings me no joy to say this," Kelly told supporters. "I wish that in a circumstance like this, I would be able to concede to a #worthy opponent. But I do not have a worthy opponent to which I can concede."

A number of losing GOP candidates have demanded #recounts, claimed their elections were "#rigged," and spread baseless #conspiracy #theories about voting #irregularities.

"Among the Trumpian core of the Republican Party, this has become #mainstream," Rick Hasen, the director of UCLA Law's Safeguarding Democracy Project, told Axios last year. "It's exceedingly #dangerous, because a #democracy depends on losers' #consent."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/dan-kelly-wisconsin-concede

Defeated Right-Wing Judge Refuses to Concede to Victor He Deems Not 'Worthy'

Daniel #Kelly, the right-wing former #Wisconsin #Supreme #Court justice who lost his bid to re-join the high court on Tuesday as liberal circuit court judge Janet #Protasiewicz won by a decisive margin, **refused to concede** to his opponent in a speech that one critic said personified the Republican Party's approach to electoral politics in recent years.

"It brings me no joy to say this," Kelly told supporters. "I wish that in a circumstance like this, I would be able to concede to a #worthy opponent. But I do not have a worthy opponent to which I can concede."

A number of losing GOP candidates have demanded #recounts, claimed their elections were "#rigged," and spread baseless #conspiracy #theories about voting #irregularities.

"Among the Trumpian core of the Republican Party, this has become #mainstream," Rick Hasen, the director of UCLA Law's Safeguarding Democracy Project, told Axios last year. "It's exceedingly #dangerous, because a #democracy depends on losers' #consent."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/dan-kelly-wisconsin-concede

Defeated Right-Wing Judge Refuses to Concede to Victor He Deems Not 'Worthy'

Daniel #Kelly, the right-wing former #Wisconsin #Supreme #Court justice who lost his bid to re-join the high court on Tuesday as liberal circuit court judge Janet #Protasiewicz won by a decisive margin, **refused to concede** to his opponent in a speech that one critic said personified the Republican Party's approach to electoral politics in recent years.

"It brings me no joy to say this," Kelly told supporters. "I wish that in a circumstance like this, I would be able to concede to a #worthy opponent. But I do not have a worthy opponent to which I can concede."

A number of losing GOP candidates have demanded #recounts, claimed their elections were "#rigged," and spread baseless #conspiracy #theories about voting #irregularities.

"Among the Trumpian core of the Republican Party, this has become #mainstream," Rick Hasen, the director of UCLA Law's Safeguarding Democracy Project, told Axios last year. "It's exceedingly #dangerous, because a #democracy depends on losers' #consent."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/dan-kelly-wisconsin-concede