MAGA House Candidate In Ohio Makes Embarrassing Concession Blunder
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Derek Myers' timing was a bit off in congratulating his primary opponent.
A Trump loyalist running for Congress in Ohio’s Republican primary on Tuesday accidentally conceded defeat four hours before the polls closed. (Watch the video below.)
Derek Myers issued an email with a statement and video at 3:19 p.m., well in advance of the state’s 7:30 p.m. closing time, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
“Tonight did not go as we had hoped, but as we know, this race is decided in the primary. so I want to give my congratulations to the congressman-elect,” he said in the video. “I’m looking forward to uniting behind him and working with him to get President Trump re-elected into the White House in November and evicting Joe Biden.”
Myers sent a statement 10 minutes later urging recipients to “DISREGARD CONCESSION EMAIL,” the Daily Beast reported.
The House of Representatives candidate explained that he had both a victory and defeat statement prepared on such an “impotent night” and one of them was sent in error, the Columbus Dispatch noted.
