Someone on Lemmy said that using his death to mislead the public, stymie democracy and play procedural shenanigans against the Democrats is definitely how he would have wanted to go.

I do want to clarify as a Kentuckian, we do not want a dead man representing us. The republican party officials don't want someone else. Most of Kentucky Dems and reps are getting pissed that he's basically been pulling a "Weekend at Bernie's" for 40+ days. It's likely even with a special election that another Republican would still get elected. But people are still pissed this farce is happening