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The Left’s hypocrisy on accepting election results

By Ashe Schow
Published November 10, 2016 7:39pm ET
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The Left’s hypocrisy on accepting election results
Since the election Tuesday night, we've had two days (and counting) of leftists literally taking to the streets to shout and cry and burn flags because their preferred candidate lost. (AP Photo) | Keith Birmingham

Remember just a couple weeks ago when the Left went apoplectic when Donald Trump said he would “accept the election results … if I win”?

How many angry think-pieces and tweets were written by journalists and lefties foaming at the mouth over Trump’s comments? At the time, these writers assumed Hillary Clinton would win, and worried Trump would try to contest the election a la Democrat Al Gore in 2000 or congressional Democrats in 2004 (sure seems like Democrats are the ones who try to officially contest elections when they lose).

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