Sore loser Eric Hovde tries to sow doubt about his Wisconsin Senate loss
Wealthy California banker Eric Hovde is whining about the Senate race he lost in Wisconsin to Democrat Tammy Baldwin, posting an embarrassing video to X on Tuesday in which he tried to sow doubt in the outcome of the race by lying about “inconsistencies” in the count.
“Like many of my supporters, I was shocked by what unfolded on election night,” Hovde said in the video. “At 1 AM, I was receiving calls of congratulations, and based on the models, it appeared I would win the Senate race. Then, at 4 AM, Milwaukee reported approximately 108,000 absentee ballots, with Sen. Baldwin receiving nearly 90% of those ballots.”
Hovde is lying.
“Hovde's numbers in this statement are wrong,” said Craig Gilbert, a fellow at Marquette University Law School and former Washington bureau chief for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “He says Baldwin got ‘nearly 90%’ of the absentee ballots in city of [Milwaukee]. She actually got just over 80%, which is hardly shocking, since she got 74% of the election day vote in the city. Nothing strange about the [Milwaukee] vote!”