Erick Erickson acknowledges a possibility I brought up not too long ago, although I view it as a near-certainty:
But MAGA [in North Carolina] chose to go with Mark Robinson, a minister who had a weird kinky fetish history online and is among the walking dead of candidates now.
The drip, drip, drip of scandal is now going to continue because Robinson will not step aside by midnight. He will lose. He is ten points behind the Democrat in the polls right now.
The question now is, with the drip, drip, drip of scandal, does Robinson’s baggage have other ballot ramifications and open a path for Kamala Harris and the state’s 16 electoral college votes?
Those sixteen votes, as someone on Daily Kos pointed out, are located on the Eastern seaboard, which means the lean of North Carolina may become known to other would-be Republican voters in Middle-America before their polls close, and discourage them from otherwise voting
And thus does an electoral tsunami begin.
And while a lot of people – rightly – worry about “know-nothing” electoral officials refusing to certify results because of an unsubstantiated belief that the election is corrupt, a big enough wave of Democratic victories may motivate most of them to quietly do their jobs and avoid the possible prison sentences that might otherwise apply.
Erickson is in the process of pinning future blame on MAGA. What he doesn’t understand is that the Republican Party team politics toxic culture will most likely lead to another crisis in the Republican Party in the not too distant future. Until Gingrichian dictates are explicitly rejected as immature foolishness, the Republican Party will be at risk – or at sea.
