President Joe Biden warned Wednesday that Republican candidates who are already threatening to not accept the results of next week’s elections are a threat to democracy.

"As I stand here today, there are candidates running for every level of office in America -- for governor, for Congress, for attorney general, for secretary of state -- who won’t commit to accepting the results of the elections they’re in," he said.

In Alaska, Kelly Tshibaka leads the list of candidates following Trump’s lead who won’t commit themselves to accepting the results of the election and continue to spread lies about the 2020 election.

Former Gov. Sarah Palin is also in that camp, though she has never put a coherent sentence together to back up her false claim that untold numbers of dead people voted in 2020 and the election was stolen from Trump.

Her standard technique is to never stop talking or slow down, creating a river of nonsense as unstoppable as a Class V rapid on the Susitna River.

There is no evidence to back up any of Palin’s claims about what she calls “shenanigans.” She began ranting about dead people voting in 2016, echoing Trump’s lies and promoting her own brand of baloney. If she loses, she may claim she is a victim of fraud, based on her grab bag of complaints so far.

Kelly Tshibaka, who professes to believe in Trump’s lies, created a cringe-worthy video last winter as she pretended to pack for a fundraising trip to Mar-a-Lago, with one of her young kids chiming in: “Once you meet him can you tell him everyone needs to call me ‘Tiny Trump’ because I thought he was cool.”

“I’ll absolutely tell him that. I think he’s gonna really like that,” Tshibaka said.

The three Alaska candidates Trump has endorsed—Tshibaka, Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Palin—accept all of Trump’s lies about the 2020 election without question and his steady stream of lies and insults about Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

That no leaders of the Alaska Republican Party have the courage to counter Trump’s lies—including Sen. Dan Sullivan, who claims to be a friend and supporter of Murkowski—is shameful.

While Alaska Public Media reported this week that Tshibaka now says she “would accept” the results of next week’s vote, Tshibaka is not saying that at all.

She said she would accept the results “If we think that the election was done in a way where we don’t believe that there was something that went super-wrong,” which is another way of saying she will not commit to accept the election results.

Her Outside staff told the New York Times in September that she would “not commit to honoring the race’s outcome” because of ranked choice voting.

Look at the false claims still being repeated by Tshibaka about the 2020 vote.

She has regularly mentioned fraud in Arizona, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, despite repeated investigations and declarations by responsible entities that have proven she is wrong.

On the Steve Bannon podcast in December, Tshibaka repeated her usual line of claptrap that no one knows if Biden really won the election.

"So Steve, we also have Democrats, common-sense Democrats who don’t line up with this leftist Biden administration, who wonder about the 2020 election. And whether we ever actually get to the bottom of it, I don’t know, this might be a question we all have on our deathbeds, what actually happened,” she said.

“Here’s what we do know. The Cyber Ninja report from Arizona’s audit said that the Arizona audit never, or the Arizona election never should have been certified. That’s not what fake news mainstream media tells you. They tell you oh they find that Biden won. No they didn’t. They use what appear to be generally accepted auditing standards, remember I have an audit background. I read the report, I think they assume most Americans won’t because again, they think America’s stupid.”

Here’s what we really know. Tshibaka’s campaign fable, which she delivers as fast as possible in a tone of outrage to suggest secret conspiracies, falls apart upon examination.

The Cyber Ninjas praised by Tshibaka last December are no longer in business, their work exposed as a partisan farce.

In the end, the partisan Arizona election report showed Biden picking up votes in Arizona. Even key Republicans in Arizona recognized it as a con job that uncovered no evidence of a fraudulent election.

The story is the same in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where there is also nothing to back up Tshibaka’s claims and plenty to discount them.

The 65 project, named for the 65 baseless lawsuits brought by lawyers across the country to overturn the election results, is trying to disbar lawyers who took part in Trump’s election lies.

Tshibaka is a lawyer, licensed to practice in Maryland, she deserves the scrutiny of the 65 project.

Biden won the election. Trump wants to overthrow the elected leader of the country. Tshibaka is OK with that.

She has turned her back on the rule of law and chosen to put flattery of Trump above all else, while spreading dangerous lies that put our nation at risk. She is positioning herself to challenge the election next week if she loses.

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