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Stockman: 'We Have The Skill Set To Win Again, So We'll Be Back'

Rep. Steve Stockman lost badly in his primary election against Sen. John Cornyn yesterday, takingjust 19 percent of the vote(link is external). But the congressman told(link is external) WorldNetDaily that he only lost as a result of Cornyn’s hefty financial advantage and promised that he would be back:

“It’s not what we wanted, but he had $14 million,” Stockman told WND just minutes after polls closed. “I don’t think we could honestly compete with that. We tried, though.”

But he told WND, “Quite frankly, we took on a huge challenge, and we did fairly well. We still have the skill-set to win again, so we’ll be back.”

Stockman added, “I’m a fighter. I’m not going to stand down. The difference between a winner and a loser is whether you get back up. And I’m going to get back up.”

Of course, Stockman ran a pathetic race ridden with dishonest campaigning(link is external), bizarre legal threats(link is external) and fake(link is external) endorsements(link is external). One Tea Party group called(link is external) Stockman’s campaign the “laziest statewide campaign to date,” as the congressman didn’t seem to actually campaign(link is external) outside of Twitter(link is external) and misleading mailers(link is external).

The only real source of Stockman’s support seemed to be the far-right website WorldNetDaily.

When he announced his campaign, we dubbed Stockman ‘the congressman from WorldNetDaily’(link is external) -- he has embraced many right-wing conspiracy theories promoted by the site and sent copies of their book on President Obama’s impeachment(link is external) to every member of Congress.

WND, in turn, went above and beyond to help Stockman.

WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi endorsed Stockman(link is external) and produced a video attacking Cornyn as a “RINO(link is external).” He later wrote an article for WorldNetDaily called, “Famous Republican About To Fall Out Of Sight(link is external)?,” that praised Stockman and harshly criticized Cornyn as a phony conservative.

Other pro-Stockman articles in WorldNetDaily included “Titanic Republican Shift In Key Senate Race(link is external)” and “Conservative Launches ‘Cruz’ Missile To Torpedo GOP Bigwig(link is external).” And just look at how WorldNetDaily announced(link is external) Stockman’s defeat: “This time, Goliath beat David.”

Maybe Stockman was so confident about his chances against Cornyn(link is external) because his entire campaign seemed to exist in WorldNetDaily’s alternate reality.