How can Colorado voters tell when a Democrat politician has gone too far cuckoo to the left and their campaign is crashing and burning?
When Kyle Clark of 9News follows on a Peak Politics post and comes for the candidate with guns a blazing polite but pointed questions about those same wild and delusional lies the Democrat is spreading with abandon.
Peak reported Monday morning on Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s patently false disinformation campaign that Americans would be losing their rights to vote in a few months if Republicans won elections.
Skeptical as to Griswold’s claims, Clark did a quick check and it appears he agrees with us that Griswold is mostly full of shit. We say “mostly,” because he let the big lie fly without accountability.
Colorado’s Democratic Secretary of State @JenaGriswold, an outspoken critic of GOP election misinformation, is claiming without evidence that “the US could lose the right to vote within months” if Republicans are elected. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/VhXsYRiR0b
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) August 30, 2022
“Griswold’s campaign was not able to provide evidence to support her claim that Republicans will somehow end the right to vote if they win the elections in November. Griswold has made Republicans election misinformation the focus of her time in office. She has also suggested misleadingly, that her opponent, Republican Secretary State candidate Pam Anderson, is some kind of election denier. Anderson is not. Anderson told 9News today that Griswold’s claim about the U.S. losing the right to vote was “self serving and damaging hyper partisan rhetoric.” Griswold’s campaign did backtrack a bit this afternoon sending us a statement saying “to clarify the right to vote is at risk for many Americans.” They pointed to the concern that certain Republican Secretary of State candidates if elected in other states might refuse to certify the 2024 election results.”
Clark let Griswold’s campaign completely slide by allowing them, unchallenged, to drop the unfounded “concern” that Republicans in other states might just refuse to certify elections come 2024. He would have been more accurate to attribute those comments to the voices in their heads.
Not surprising, progressive election deniers are defending Griswold’s conspiracy theories about future fixed elections.
The editorial page editors at the Gazette newspapers say Griswold has spent her first term “dragging her office down into the political fray rather than rising above it.”
Griswold’s comments:
“What we can expect from the extreme Republicans running across this country is to undermine free and fair elections for the American people, strip Americans of the right to vote, refuse to address security breaches and, unfortunately, be more beholden to Mar-a-Lago than the American people,” she said. “For us, we are trying to save democracy.”
The Gazette responds:
Good heavens. You at first might think Griswold has lost her grip on reality altogether. But it’s a safe bet it’s merely part of her act. There’s nothing like divisive, partisan melodrama to earn more media coverage and stoke campaign contributions.
So what if she sows distrust in our election system along the way and spreads the very misinformation she claims to abhor?
She’s shamelessly willing to say anything to get reelected, democracy be damned.