Day 1003: trounce

Which one is going to trounce thief rivals in the election, in France?

Artwork of the day
The County Election
George Caleb Bingham
Date: 1846
Style: Romanticism, Naïve Art (Primitivism)
Genre: genre painting

Word of the day
trounce: to defeat a competitor by a large amount

Quote of the day 
“He was defeated. Competitive him, who'd spent most of his life perfecting the art of winning. He'd been trounced by a woman. Killed with one look from those hazel eyes.”
― Becky Wade, My Stubborn Heart