A socialist congressional candidate in Washington's 10th district was less popular with voters than a guy who died in April.
Joshua Collins, a socialist affiliated with the Essential Workers Party, received less votes than Richard Boyce of the Congress Sucks Platform.
Collins received 969 votes, while Boyce received 1,075. The winner of the primary, Marilyn Strickland, won with 21.4 percent of the vote, or 22,105 total ballots cast in her favour.
Boyce, who ran on a platform most Americans could get behind on the Congress Sucks Party ticket, was primarily interested in curtailing unconstitutional government actions. He is reported to have said "I'm not 'woke.' I understand postmodernism, critical theory and their tear down culture." May he rest in peace.
Boyce said that "the only rights in America are the rights found in the Constitution." He had pledged to donate $10,000 of his salary to charity per month.
Collins, on the other hand, raised over $200,000 for his congressional bid before he had filed the paperwork to run. Then he deleted his social media accounts. When he came back, he had revamped his image.
Collins ran on the platforms of federal rent control, the green new deal, and anti-racism.