Ryan casts doubt on 'bizarre' California election results

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY SCOTT WONG - 11/29/18 10:34 AM EST

Weeks after House Republicans lost their majority, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Thursday cast serious doubts about the “bizarre” election system in California, where it appears that seven GOP-held seats will flip to Democratic control.

The California election system “just defies logic to me,” Ryan said during a Washington Post event.

“We were only down 26 seats the night of the election and three weeks later, we lost basically every California race. This election system they have — I can’t begin to understand what ‘ballot harvesting’ is.”

It was a remarkable comment from the retiring Speaker of the House, who until now had not joined President Trump and other Republicans who have complained about what they believed were election irregularities in places like Florida and California.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/418880-ryan-casts-doubt-on-bizarre-california-election-results

[beachbum bob]

1. ryan must miss the fact that moderate GOP hates all things trump

[truthisfreedom]

2. Sore losers!

[Funtatlaguy]

3. Hahahahahaha

If we did cheat in California, it still wouldn’t make up for all the cheating that a Republican SOS and Governor has done in so many states like Georgia and Florida.

[Guppy]

4. He is lucky it was only 39

If it wasn't so gerrymandered it would have been 50.

[StevieM]

22. It may be up to 40 when CA-21 comes in. And I agree about gerrymandering.

Without it the GOP losses would have been at least 50 seats, probably more like 55.

[Guppy]

24. We did a great job of getting the vote out

We worked extremely hard in Ga 7th and lost by 400 votes. This district is very gerrymandered and Forsyth county saved woodall as their small section voted 2 to 1 for Woodall and took him over the hump. Gwinnett is now blue. We won every other race in our area and kicked out the republicans. When we were trying to get the last absentee and provisional ballots in Gwinnett counted, the county officials were extremely unhelpful who of course were all republicans.

[SKKY]

43. Absolutely. And Pennsylvania basically proved that....

...With a shrinking base, Republicans have to resort to voter suppression (Georgia, Florida, etc) or Gerrymandering.

[marble falls]

5. Coincidentally, I have been extremely disappointed in the bizarre mob rule by the GOP ...

Congress. That's why we fixed the House, we've rolled up our sleeves and we're going to fix the Senate next.

[ffr]

6. Is this the same guy who won't bring an investigation, not even a censure resolution against trump??

Paul Ryan, you have no credibility.

[malthaussen]

7. Oh, go fondle your money, you lame-duck asshole. n/t

[underpants]

8. Let's see

People don't like you
You suck at governing
You implicitly support a Nazi in the White House
People want healthcare for themselves and their neighbors and generally see right through your f'ed policies.

[bearsfootball516]

9. Wow, he really hates actually counting all the votes!

[niyad]

14. ONLY Dem votes, don't you know!

[Downtown Hound]

10. "I can't begin to understand what 'ballot harvesting' is."

It's called COUNTING ALL THE VOTES IN A FAIR AND DEMOCRATIC MANNER, you half wit.

I know, Republicans just hate that, especially when it means they lose.

[Wellstone ruled]

13. You called it my friend.

Have not heard that expression since Bush-Gore ballot counting.

[DavidDvorkin]

11. But Georgia is just fine.

[diva77]

32. Exactly!!! Election integrity IS a nonpartisan issue, but lyin-ryan missed it by a mile with his

statement!

[Midnight Writer]

33. Ryan "understands" Georgia's election system just fine.

[DavidDvorkin]

35. Yep.

[niyad]

12. FUCK YOU paulie, you worthless piece of feces.

[libdem4life]

15. Last shot before the door hits you where the good lord split you?????

Weasel ... through to the end. Buh Bye..quoting one of your old-time friends.

[RockRaven]

16. Hey f*ckwit, maybe learn something about the situation before opening your piehole.

CA significantly expanded mail-in voting this election cycle at the expense of in-person day-of voting (which traditionally can be counted/tabulated almost entirely on election day except for provisionals), and the mail-in ballots take longer to verify and count (more like provisionals). Also it is a long-standing, established trend in CA that mail-in ballots returned earlier in the voting window -- therefore processed by the end of election day -- skew more R and ballots returned later including on election day itself skew more D. So the final counts drifting more D after election day as the remaining ballots are counted is entirely in-line with historical precedent.

And unlike GA and FL and every other place controlled by GOP sh*tstains, we actually want to count every f*cking vote.

[Merlot]

17. Maybe Californians in Orange County didn't like losing their SALT deduction?

And that is a republican policy.

[TexasBushwhacker]

18. It's the cap on SALT taxes dummy

You made your bed. You decided to punish high tax, blue states like California and NY.

[SFnomad]

19. Yes, Ryan can't understand why California counts ALL the votes and doesn't just declare

the Republican a winner, whenever they're ahead.

[SunSeeker]

20. So in Ryan's world, taking time to count all the votes is "bizarre."

[Firestorm49]

21. Boo Fricking Hoo

Hey Pauly, do you remember the two presidential elections that mysteriously swung Republican. Take a Mydol and relax. I sure don't need to here election crap from a Republican.

[StevieM]

23. In his own way Ryan is worse than Trump. (eom)

[Retrograde]

25. I don't quite believe it either

I mean, Nunes and McCarthy got re-elected

Anyway, if he bothered to go to the Secretary of State's website he would see that counting was always expected to take about a month. The GOP seems to forget that election results aren't official when their favorite broadcasters think they're going to be the first to make a pronouncement: they are official when the designated election officials say they are.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Ryan knows on his way out he can start, with a lie of course, a massive clusterfuck to

interfere with justice and America and he would love nothing more than to do that

These are traitors, we need to understand that.

[still_one]

27. Nothing bizarre about it. California counts ALL votes, including provisional and absentee ballots

I understand why repukes have a. issue with counting all votes

[ProfessorGAC]

28. Why Is Any Reporter Asking Him Anything?

He's a quitter. Let him go home to "spend more time with his family."

Punk.

[lagomorph777]

29. Hey Ryan, logic is not your strong suit.

Putz.

[stopbush]

30. Here's how it works: the very earliest returns in any election usually come from rural districts

where 1. there are few votes to count and 2. voters tend to be conservatives.

Rs will always point to these early returns as “proof” they are winning.

In high-population states like CA, it takes much longer to count the millions of actual votes. Most of those votes are coming from urban areas. So naturally, it will appear that Rs are ahead or winning outright when the networks PROJECT the winner a few hours after the polls close. But projecting a winner based on the rural vote is not the same as counting the actual vote.

Ryan knows this, but he is counting on the fact that most R voters are stupid, and that they do not know this. All they see is “I thought the R won weeks ago. Where are all these new votes for the D coming from?”

[apnu]

31. What a moron

1) You are from Wisconsin, why are you worrying about Californa's election system?

2) They have a non-partisan commission that draws its districts unlike the heavy gerrymandering in Wisconsin that kept Ryan in office until he stunk so bad that even that couldn't protect his job.

What a tool he is.

[Cha]

34. Paul Ryan doesn't mind showing off

his Stupidity once again.

[mpcamb]

36. May he spend eternity in a Wisc. ice fishing shack in very late spring,

Thinking about where he went wrong.

[DrToast]

37. I don't even think that's true

They lost more than 26 seats on the night of the election.

[Midwestern Democrat]

42. Ryan's being ridiculous - IIRC, the networks were already projecting at least a 35 seat pickup on

election night based on the results that had already come in - Ryan's acting like there were 14 races that flipped our way after election night that were complete surprises

[DrToast]

44. That sounds about right.

It was certainly more than 26 and well into the 30s.

[DeminPennswoods]

38. This is what happens when all votes are counted

sorry Paulie.

[Corgigal]

39. Anyone live closer then me,

who can drop off some brown boxes so he can pack? He needs something constructive to do.

[Codeine]

40. Nothin' bizarre about it, asshole Ryan.

We got out our vote. When we get out our vote we win, because when it comes down to it there a whole lot more of us than there are of you!

[Zorro]

41. Ryan is a fucking disgrace to this country

That shithead can't leave government soon enough for me.

He and the rest of his party of vandals have clearly demonstrated they are unfit to govern.

[workinclasszero]

45. Why do the GOP hate counting all the votes?

Anti-American scumballs!