Election denial is a slippery slope, and the Republican working for the U.S. Home seat in Maine’s 2nd District is sliding down quick and attempting to tug us down with him.
Bruce Poliquin, the two-term congressman who misplaced his 2018 bid for reelection to Rep. Jared Golden, is again for an additional spherical. Poliquin received his major on Tuesday by a snug margin over (far proper extremist) Liz Caruso.
On paper, Poliquin looks as if a satisfactory option to characterize us in Congress. He has been a fixture in Maine Republican politics for over a decade. Nonetheless, he’s complicit in Donald Trump’s efforts to sabotage our democracy by enabling his lies concerning the 2020 election.
AUGUSTA, ME – MAY 10: Bruce Poliquin speaks throughout a rally in assist of gun rights earlier than a day of testimony on gun payments within the Legal Justice and Public Security committee on Friday Could 10, 2019 on the Maine State Home in Augusta. (Employees picture by Joe Phelan/Employees Photographer) Employees picture by Joe Phelan
2020 isn’t the primary time Poliquin tried to undermine a free and honest election. He first flirted with the concept in October 2018 when, throughout a debate, he refused to decide to accepting the outcomes of the election if he misplaced. He rapidly adopted by way of, submitting a lawsuit towards the state earlier than the tabulation of votes even started. This power-grab try was swiftly thrown out.
Simply two years later, Poliquin refused to just accept the outcomes of one other election. Just lately, when requested if he believes that Joe Biden received the 2020 election, he evaded the query after which pitched his personal candidacy. Poliquin appears to suppose that he or his chosen candidates can’t lose elections honest and sq..
Throughout this identical interview, Poliquin in contrast the riot on our nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 to the Black Lives Matter protests that broke out in Portland throughout the summer time of 2020. Poliquin was given the chance to face with democracy and put our nation over his personal political ambition, and he failed. Whereas riots are dangerous, Portland rioters didn’t present up at Joe Biden’s request the best way the Jan. 6 crowd confirmed up for Trump.
Trump is probably going eyeing his personal comeback try in 2024. The nation already witnessed how Trump reacted to dropping a free and honest election in 2020 — he claimed that the vote was rigged regardless of an absence of precise proof. Nonetheless, that is tame in comparison with the plan that Trump and his allies have developed for 2024. Based on lately reported intel revealed by Politico, “MAGA” loyalists are positioning themselves throughout the election system to place Trump again within the White Home — even when he loses the election.
Poliquin has already revealed his political philosophy: get together over nation. If we ship him again to Washington, he’ll assist Trump seize not solely our get together, however your entire nation.
The folks of northern Maine have proudly elected Republicans within the majority of our elections — Republicans with impeccable credentials and integrity, from Ronald Reagan to Olympia Snowe. Poliquin has proven us that he doesn’t characterize our conventional Republican values: He’s extra loyal to at least one man than they’re to the Structure.
Maine Republicans as soon as once more have the chance to guide the GOP down the trail of integrity. As Maine goes, so goes the nation. If we vote for conspiracy theorists, we are going to present the nation that we are not any higher than the extremists who’ve develop into the loudest, most divisive voices within the GOP. We’re higher than that.
Let’s present our fellow Republicans that Maine stands for democracy above all else.
David Andrew is a Republican who lives in Auburn.
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