Trump opens his #gasen rally with a lie: “You know we won Georgia, just so you understand.” A crowd of thousands chants “four more years.” #gapol
Trump gives the #gasen candidates what they want: “We are in the most important congressional runoff, probably in American history ...” Calls it a battle between “extreme far left” Democrats and conservative Republicans. “We’ve been cheated but we will still win.” #gapol
Now he’s devoting his speech to his election grievances, claiming that Biden couldn’t have won because, among other reasons, he drew a small crowd to a recent speech. #gapol
Rob Henderson, awaiting Pence’s arrival: “The election should be the most secure thing ever. I don’t know if it’s rigged or what, but it needs to be more secure than your iPhone. But I’m still voting in January. There are problems in gvt, but we still participate in it.” #gasen
Steven Janus hopes Trump reassures Republicans.
“It’s hard to ignore these allegations. The issue here is that none of the core problems have been addressed. The confidence in the election is shaken. But I think the president and @VP coming here will help.” #gapol#gasen
Cassie Conway plans to vote despite her misgivings.
“I just want my vote to count. I’m worried it’s not. I’m going to vote in the runoffs, but I’m very concerned. I just don’t want Biden to win and for us to be a Communist country.” #gapol#gasen
A crowd of hundreds is gathered at an Alpharetta park to hear from Sidney Powell, the attorney disavowed by the Trump campaign, and others push his false narrative of a “stolen” election.
Listen to that roar of applause as Powell is introduced ...
Lin Wood is invoking MLK’s legacy and urging Trump supporters to hound @GovKemp until he orders a special session to overturn Biden’s victory. Chants of “LOCK HIM UP” follow. #gapol
“Senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions ... I’m talking about Sen. David Perdue and Sen. Kelly Loeffler, two people whom I still support. But they need to step up.”
The two Republicans have yet to respond. #gapol#gasen
.@sendavidperdue spokeswoman @CaseyBlackTN: “Senator Perdue condemns violence of any kind, against anybody. Period. We won’t apologize for addressing the obvious issues with the way our state conducts its elections.” #gapol#gasen
Former rivals Doug Collins and Kelly Loeffler hit the campaign trail together for the first time this morning at a gun range in north Georgia. He endorsed her on election night, putting an end to a bitter yearlong Republican-on-Republican feud between the two. #gapol#gasen
Collins opens with a swipe at @ReverendWarnock: “There is no such thing as a pro-choice pastor. What you have is a lie from the bed of Hell. It is time to send it back to Ebenezer Baptist Church.” #gapol#gasen
He closes by predicting “Republicans rising up again from the ashes” in the runoffs.
“This was not a defeat — this was a victory. Because come January 5, the nation and the world is gonna see Georgia stand up” and elect Perdue & Loeffler. #gapol#gasen
Happy Thanksgiving. Misspelling “district” twice right out the gate,
Trump’s ex-lawyer Sidney Powell filed a lawsuit alleging that as many as 96,000 votes were illegally counted in Georgia without showing substantiated evidence of her claims. #gapolbloomberg.com/news/articles/…
It claims w/o evidence “old-fashioned ballot-stuffing” through computer software and “egregious” conduct in five of the most GOP counties in Georgia, but never bothers to specify what allegedly happened in each. #gapol
It was brought on behalf of five Georgia Republicans who would have been electors had Trump won, and two party officials: Jason Shepherd of the Cobb GOP and B.J. Van Gundy, assistant secretary of the state party. #gapol