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Trump in Georgia, singled out three people:
Janice Johnston
Rick Jeffares
Janelle King
Trump called them, “pitbulls fighting for honesty, transparency, and victory.”
Who are they?

They are three of the five members of Georgia’s State Election Board. Three days after Trump’s speech, this past Tuesday, those three Republicans approved a new rule requiring a “reasonable inquiry” prior to election certification that, while vague and undefined, could be

exploited to delay certification and threaten the statewide election certification deadline of November 22.
Let me be clear. There is a mission going on all over America to not certify the election. These people do not care about the law. They do not care about being prosecuted.

Trump knows he cannot legally win the election with votes. In his head, he can win, but only if he cheats. Cheating is still winning to a man like Trump. His ego is too fragile to lose, so he twists this whole process to assure he can never “lose.” He is far too insecure to lose.

In his head, he’s always been a winner. In reality he’s always been a corrupt, unlawful grifter. That’s still winning to him.
He has spread this idea to the Republican Party.
Trump will lose in 2024.

But that won’t happen, because Trump doesn’t lose. He beat Joe Biden in

2020, remember? So if he’s not the rightful victor on November 5, an entire army of Republicans is ready to block certification of the election at the local level.

No need to worry about mayhem on January 6, 2025 when Congress meets in joint session; the election deniers plan

to stop a result right away if it looks like Harris is winning. Their goal: Refuse to certify anywhere, even a county that Trump won, and prevent certification in that state, which prevents certification of the presidential election.
In the swing states of Arizona, Georgia,

Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania . . . at least 70 pro-Trump election conspiracists currently working as county election officials who have questioned the validity of elections or delayed or refused to certify results.” Of those 70, 22 of them already

have “refused or delayed certification” in recent past elections. Nationwide, Republicans have refused to certify results at least 25 times since 2020, in eight states, the most in Georgia.
There are more than enough such individuals in these key posts to bring us to a

constitutional crisis.
The law in Georgia, where Trump and fourteen1 others are charged with plotting to overturn the 2020 election result, requires county election boards to certify results “not later than 5:00 P.M. on the Monday following the date on which such election was

held” so this year, by the evening of November 11. The secretary of state is then to certify the statewide results “not later than 5:00 P.M. on the seventeenth day” after the election, so November 22.

This new rule could disrupt the entire process across the state by allowing

local partisans to reject results. And Georgia appears to be at the center of Trump’s plans. Casting doubt on Fulton County, which makes up the bulk of Democratic votes in the state, will help him claim he won the Peach State as the rest of the results come in red.

But even without an explicitly permitted “inquiry” like the new Georgia rule provides, Republicans in other swing states still plan on acting at the county level to slow or stop certification. Because questioning the outcome at the very start of the process will create delay.

Any doubt and confusion, and perhaps even violence, makes it easier to miss essential deadlines and can threaten the chance that the rightful winner prevails.
Election deniers also hope that sowing chaos might prompt GOP legislatures to intervene, in Georgia, Arizona, or

Wisconsin for example.
This time around, Trump isn’t just looking for thousands of votes in Georgia.
He’s hoping to purge Democratic votes here first.

Election-deniers in other swing states will be waiting to see how this goes and then will themselves refuse to certify.

Georgia is the play here. Because of the new laws that were put into place after 2020. The laws were put into place to assure that Georgia can “legally” nog certify.