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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!”
