This is what he has wrought:
Failed far-right Nevada Republican gubernatorial candidate Joey Gilbert filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn his primary defeat, citing an “analysis” that found his loss to be a “mathematical impossibility” even after a recount he requested confirmed the results.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo last month defeated Gilbert, who attended former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 rally ahead of the Capitol riot, by double-digits, 38-27. But Gilbert, a voter fraud conspiracy theorist, refused to concede the race.
Gilbert on Friday filed a lawsuit on Friday in Carson City seeking to overturn his loss. The suit claims that Lombardo’s win is a “mathematical impossibility.” Once the results are “statistically corrected,” said a copy of the complaint obtained by The Nevada Independent, will show “with irrefutable geometric finality” that Gilbert won by more than 55,000 votes.
Nevada counties already completed a recount sought by Gilbert, which confirmed that he lost to Lombardo by more than 20,000 votes.
The suit raises questions about Gilbert’s differing vote shares among early, mail-in and Election Day ballots, which the suit argues is a “geometric impossibility” derived through an “illegal formula.”
The lawsuit cites an analysis by an “expert mathematician” to claim that thousands of Gilbert votes were “drawn illegally” into Gov. Steve Sisolak’s pool of voters in the Democratic primary and, once “corrected,” would show that Gilbert defeated Lombardo by more than 50,000 votes.
The “expert mathematician” cited by Gilbert is infamous election conspiracy theorist Edward Solomon, who falsely claimed to have found evidence that the 2020 presidential election was rigged using an algorithm — a claim repeatedly debunked by expert fact-checkers, who noted that Solomon’s claims show a “basic misunderstanding of how vote counts work.”
I don’t know if these people are so dumb that they actually believe this stuff or if, like Trump, they are just sore losers who can’t admit they lost. Whatever it is, it’s indicative of something more disturbing than just some cranks and crackpots running for office which has always happened. These people are modeling themselves after the once and future president and it has great currency on the right, contributing to the notion that elections are rigged and that Republicans can’t lose. It’s bad.