Michael Peroutka, the Republican candidate for Maryland attorney general, is refusing to concede even though he lost his election by 20 points.
Without providing any evidence, Peroutka alleged that there were “many odd and suspicious incidents” reported by poll watchers and that “more reports are being gathered today.”
“I plan to investigate these strange occurrences and I do not plan to concede the race,” he said.
Peroutka is projected to lose the attorney general race to Democrat Anthony Brown in a landslide. Brown received 60.1 percent of the vote to Peroutka’s 39.9 percent with an estimated 88% of the vote in.
“Perhaps, like many others, you found it presumptuous that Wes Moore and Anthony Brown claimed victory before any results were posted on the official website,” Peroutka said in a statement. “The local media obligingly concurred even though the first tallies were not yet reported.”
Both Moore and Brown made history in Maryland on Tuesday. Moore became the state’s first Black governor and only the third Black governor to ever be elected in the country. Brown became Maryland’s first Black attorney general.
