Katie Porter cries “rigged” after losing out in her bid for Californi…

In election years past, we’ve come to associate the term “rigged” with Republican candidates such as Donald Trump, who has established a pattern of attributing losses to this, that and the other, as the word is conveniently nebulous. But Democrats can lean on that crutch too.

In a recent analysis from The Washington Post, they illustrate this using Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) as an example. After losing her bid for the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s primary elections — coming in third (by a lot) behind Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former baseball star Steve Garvey (R) — she issued a statement to X (formerly Twitter) singing a familiar tune:

Thank you to everyone who supported our campaign and voted to shake up the status quo in Washington. Because of you, we had the establishment running scared — withstanding 3 to 1 in TV spending and an onslaught of billionaires spending millions to rig this election.

When criticized for her use of…