At the time of this writing, a number of prominent Republicans are refusing to accept their declared or potentially looming defeats.
From candidates for governor like Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania, Lee Zeldin in New York and Kari Lake in Arizona to a former president with a lot on the line (Donald Trump himself), the party of Abraham Lincoln continues to buck the previously unbroken American tradition of conceding after losing an election. Yet after consulting several polling experts, Salon repeatedly heard the same view expressed over and over again, with some variation but little meaningful deviation. In the words of one of those experts, Joshua Dyck, who is a political science professor and Director of the Center for Public Opinion at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell:
