Thread by @daveweigel

Rep. Austin Scott kicks off Pence rally by noting that Obama and Clinton get less than 100,000 absentee votes in Georgia, while Biden got many more.

"Something's not right with that. Now, he may end up getting sworn in as president..."

There are shouts of "no!" from the crowd.

But Scott ads that Biden is "less scary to me" if Perdue holds his Senate seat.

Rep. Drew Ferguson says that the Democratic agenda is straight of out "Communist China," citing "defund the police" (not part of the actual agenda) etc.

"How many of you think that sending children to colleges for indoctrination right now is a good idea?" he asks.

A guy in crowd yells "DEMON RATS" and Ferguson repeats the phrase from behind the lectern.

What I mean is that there *is* a House bill that grew out of the BLM protests and would "defund" as the term is commonly understood. But it has a handful of co-sponsors and isn't supported by Biden/Pelosi/Schumer. breatheact.org

The pastor here points out that the vote to defund Planned Parenthood depended on former Sen. Johnny Isakson, so Rs can't lose this seat. I point this out bc there's a lot of unrealistic scary stuff in these speeches but this one is legit!

"It's a pleasure to be at a church that believes in prayer," Pence says, which makes me wonder if he accidentally got booked to talk to Unitarians yesterday.

"We’re going to fight for all we’ve done. We’re going to fight for all we have left to do. We’re going to fight to send Sen. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler back to DC," Pence says. The senate "could be the last line of defense," a subtle reference to refusing to concede.

Pence calls the effort to combat the covid-19 pandemic “the greatest national mobilization since World War II,” marked by the quick arrival of “not one, but two safe and effective vaccines.” (Georgia is one of the states lagging in administrating the vax.)

Pence has more reality-based attacks on Warnock and Ossoff than you've been hearing here: They'd raise taxes (yes), they want a smaller defense budget (yes), Warnock has criticized Israel (also yes).

Pence evokes Biden's line about the GOP senators just "getting in the way": “That’s exactly what we need in the United States Senate! We need Sen. David Perdue and Sen. Kelly Loeffler to get in the way of the radical left’s agenda.”