GOP Wisconsin Senate Candidate Refuses To Concede

NOTUS reports:

Wisconsin’s GOP senate candidate, Eric Hovde, is, at this point, refusing to concede to Sen. Tammy Baldwin and blaming a third-party candidate who netted a vote count of almost exactly Hovde’s loss margin. “We’re certainly disappointed that the Democrats’ effort to siphon votes with a fraudulent candidate had a significant impact on the race, with those votes making up more than the entire margin of the race right now,” Hovde said.

The “fraudulent candidate” in question is Thomas Leager, an “America First” candidate who told the Associated Press last month he was recruited by operatives with the Patriots Run Project. Leager is a former lobbyist for the Wisconsin Gun Owners Inc., a gun rights group to the right of the NRA. But he’s most infamous for saying he was an unindicted co-conspirator in the unsuccessful 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

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