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1 Dec, 4 tweets, 4 min read
It's getting ugly in Georgia. Republicans are now openly begging Trump to stop lying about the voting being fraudulent. What's disgusting is that they happily told these same lies, and only now want him to stop due to fear of flat GOP turnout. New piece:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Amazing: An adviser to @KLoeffler is now calling on Trump to stop undermining the integrity of Georgia elections. But Loeffler herself is doing exactly that!

Telling the truth to GOP voters -- that Trump legitimately lost -- is simply not permitted:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@KLoeffler Here's where it gets even crazier.

Both Loeffler and Perdue want to run as a check on a Biden presidency.

But they can't so much as *hint* that Biden won the election, because it angers Trump voters.

Again, telling them the truth is not an option:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@KLoeffler Here's what's really terrible:

If the lie that the election was stolen from Trump ends up juicing GOP turnout and Republicans win one or both Georgia runoffs, the wholesale delegitimization of our elections will be validated as a mobilization tactic:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

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Greg Sargent Profile picture
30 Nov
The stakes in the Georgia runoffs couldn't be higher.

GOP Senate means:

* More economic misery

* More illness and death from Covid

* Validation for declaring elections illegitimate as a weaponizable political tactic

I talked to @ossoff about all this:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@ossoff A GOP Senate means no ambitious stimulus, a far less coordinated response to coronavirus' latest rampage, and a death knell for popular policies that will secure our future.

“We have to make sure voters understand the stakes," @ossoff tells me:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@ossoff Lies from Trump and Perdue about the election "are a direct attack on Black voters, whose turnout powered Biden’s victory in Georgia,” says @ossoff.

They are "having a public tantrum" because they weren't saved by “the apparatus of voter suppression."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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Greg Sargent Profile picture
27 Nov
Why did Dems lose at least 12 House seats -- despite Biden getting 80 million votes against Trump and winning the popular vote by as much as 7 million?

I had a great chat with @Redistrict about what really happened. Some surprises you won't want to miss:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@Redistrict A few highlights from our talk. First, massive Trump base turnout lifted downballot Republican congressional candidates in surprising ways: They could pocket that turnout while winning anti-Trump swing voters on top of it.

(cc @DamonLinker @lkatfield)

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@Redistrict @DamonLinker @lkatfield What's more, it's not clear how much of an impact Democrats' woes among blue collar whites hurt them down-ballot. It's complicated.

Fascinating suggestions from @Redistrict on this:

(citing @EricLevitz and @davidshor)

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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Greg Sargent Profile picture
25 Nov
Michigan Republicans were offered a stark choice: Stand for the rule of law and the legitimacy of our election, or stand with Trump's efforts to overturn it. It's a bad sign for the future that so many of them felt obliged to act out the latter. New piece:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Trump will leave office. But what's so infuriating is that he will never once tell his supporters that the system has operated lawfully -- that the verdict it rendered is a legitimate one:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Awful, from @TimAlberta's report on Michigan:

The two GOP leg leaders brought counsel to meeting with Trump. They knew this scheme was on thin legal ice but went anyway.

Why? Because they worried spurning him would hurt their careers. That bodes badly:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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Greg Sargent Profile picture
23 Nov
Is this how it's gonna be? Is it now a fact of our political life that Democrats must win presidential elections by cheat-proof margins to prevail? What if the rogue-elector scheme comes to be seen as just another tool of political warfare? My latest:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
To an unsettling degree, the idea that Republicans must refrain from criticizing Trump's efforts to steal the election in order to **keep the base energized** is getting treated as just another immutable fact of life about our politics:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
I talked to expert @Nedfoley about what reforms might preclude a state legislature from appointing rogue electors.

It's unclear how, as long as we have the electoral college. That leaves us relying in part on fair play.

(cc @jessewegman @julia_azari)

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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Greg Sargent Profile picture
20 Nov
1) Here's a question for legal experts about Trump's ongoing efforts to steal the election.

This @SangerNYT piece gets at a key point. Trump would need *multiple* GOP state legislatures to all appoint electors in defiance of their state's popular vote:

nytimes.com/2020/11/19/us/…
@SangerNYT 2) If Trump got MI and PA to do this (which he won't), it wouldn't necessarily help him. In those states, governors (both Dems) appoint the electors.

If so, you'd have competing slates sent to Congress. As I wrote the other day, that doesn't help Trump:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@SangerNYT 3) So @SangerNYT says Trump's only way forward it to get GA and AZ to do it (both have GOP governors). But even then he'd still need at least 1 more from a state with a Dem governor.

He needs at least 3 states to do this to get Biden's total below 270:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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Greg Sargent Profile picture
19 Nov
Now that Trump is actively trying to put in motion his scheme to get GOP legislatures to help steal the election, I'm reupping this piece explaining how this whole process works and just how insanely corrupt and autocratic such an effort would have to be:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
As I note in my piece, the GOP-controlled state legislature in Pennsylvania has no current role in appointing electors. None. By state law, the governor (a Democrat) appoints them.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/… ImageImage
And GOP officials in Michigan have also explicitly clarified that they also don't have a current role in appointing electors, as @tripgabriel and @stefsaul reported:

nytimes.com/article/electo… Image
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