A squeaker

Pennsylvania's 18th.

The wife and I voted for Lamb, who claimed victory on a lead of some 600 votes, this morning, though there is no official result.

There remain enough absentee ballots to count to theoretically give the victory to Saccone.

Bozo's tariff announcements and visits probably explain why Lamb's victory, if he has had one, was not by a larger margin.

Update.

Lamb officially the winner

By 627 votes, they say, with all votes counted.

The Trumpist GOP cannot accept defeat at all, let alone with grace.

GOP gearing up to challenge District 18 results, impound all voting machines used in special election

Republican officials are alleging voting irregularities in the District 18 special election, and say they plan to go to court seeking to impound all the voting machines used Tuesday.

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A Republican source familiar with the campaign said that the GOP planned to petition for the voting machines used in all four counties to be impounded, pending a recount.

It is not yet clear where such a petition would be filed. But Republicans are investigating a number of purported Election Day irregularities including problems with the machines, voters being told to go to the wrong polling places, and Republican attorneys being barred from overseeing the counting of absentee ballots in Allegheny County.

Yeah, sure.

Well, Trump did claim that he could not lose and Hillary could get the nod only if the rigged system stole the election from him.

And in that case his followers should take it to the streets.

He is a pig, a blowhard, an ignoramus, and a thug, and his voters say they love him because he is just like them.

Update.

Right up to the day before the election GOP propaganda, including Trump's own loud voice, tried to paint Lamb as the wildest of wild-eyed liberals and suckups for Nancy Pelosi.

Beginning on election day when it started to dawn on them their guy had lost, they started to paint him as a way conservative guy, nearly a DINO, not at all typical of the Democrats and no harbinger of things to come in November, at all.

Ryan took to a podium in the capitol to try to drive that message home.