Democrat Marquita Bradshaw officially lost the U.S. Senate race to U.S. Sen.-Elect Bill Hagerty Tuesday by a landslide margin, but she said Tuesday that she refuses to accept the results.
Bradshaw also said she won’t address Hagerty as her new U.S. senator.
Bradshaw said this while addressing her supporters Tuesday night. This, after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett posted election results on that department’s website.
“In true South Memphis style we fight for everything that we have to get. This is not a concession speech. It is on the principle of democracy that we will fight until every last vote is counted,” Bradshaw told her followers Tuesday.
“I have already made history, and that was not my intention. But what I will do is make sure that you know that your vote will be counted in this United States Senate race. Because I know the antics that they’ve done in the past, and it goes no farther than here. So, in true South Memphis style, we will fight and we will go find my votes at the bottom of the basement.”
Bradshaw offered no evidence to support her accusations.
Bradshaw, according to election results, got 35 percent of the vote to Hagerty’s 62 percent.
As The Tennessee Star reported in August, Bradshaw is an environmental activist and former AFL-CIO organizer. Bradshaw’s campaign website describes her as “a lifelong environmentalist and activist for social & economic justice who has proudly fought alongside the people of Tennessee.”
The website also lists her as a community organizer who volunteers for, among other groups, the AFL-CIO, the left-leaning Sierra Club Executive Committee, and the Tennessee African American Environmental Justice Network.
Bradshaw said Tuesday that she is not going away.
“Bill Hagerty is not my U.S. senator and we will count the last vote,” Bradshaw said.
“My name is Marquita Bradshaw, and I will be your next United States senator.”
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Chris Butler is an investigative journalist at The Tennessee Star. Follow Chris on Facebook. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Marquita Bradshaw” by Marquita Bradshaw.
The Republicans held the Senate , increase their seats in House but somehow the President is slowly having his election win stolen by the Democratic machine in the States. This doesn’t bode well for our Republic.
Marquita Bradshaw needs to take it up with the DNC. I saw NO campaign ads for her, yet the her KY Senate candidate got $60 million to lose big to Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnel. She only hit 2% more of the vote than Marquita. They also funneled more than $100 million to the Democratic candidate in South Carolina to defeat Lindsey Graham. And a lot to a Democrat loser in Georgia. But the DNC ignored Marquita Bradshaw who apparently got NONE! It’s your own party’s fault, Marquita!
Another delusional leftist loser. Gets pummeled by voters and then claims she is for democracy unless she doesn’t like the results. She doesn’t have to accept the results for the results to be the results. I hope this delusional twit tries to go to the Senate, I am sure she won’t even be allowed into the building and if she insists she is a US senator she should be put in a funny farm
Funny she should mention the basement. I’m sure there are dem votes In somebody’s basement, just waiting to find a way to count.
BTW, South Memphis is nothing to brag about. Perhaps the environmental activist could work on cleaning that up instead.
What she needs to understand is Tennesseans REALLY hate this kind of thing–bad losers whining and refusing to lose with dignity and class.
Since she is now unemployed, it looks like she is angling to be the new “REAL gov of ga stacey abrams”…what a sad thing to aspire to be
what is it with these obnoxious PPP females that refuse to admit they got beat??
She can say what she wants and proclaim that Hagerty is not her senator. but that doesn’t mean anything. When the senate votes in the next six years, it will be Hagerty’s vote that will be counted.
Precisely.
Stacey Abrams, Jr?
She may not be going away but she sure is not going to be the next Senator from Tennessee. She only carried three counties.
dear marquita. no one really gives a hoot and as for you not going away, no one really gives a hoot. it is history that will erases you. the only one who remembers who finished in second place,is the one who finished in second place.
bye bye