Perfect.
Next weekend’s rally in Georgia is, or was, supposed to unite the party before the January 5 runoffs. Good luck with that after he inevitably spends 45 minutes at the mic ranting about how Kemp and his deputies are “enemies of the people” who rigged the election against him. Here’s the clip: pic.twitter.com/TMt3jpOaS6 Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) November 29,2020 “Many Trump aides and many GA senate folks are uneasy he’s going to GA and see potential downside. Here’s why,” said Maggie Haberman of the clip above. I’m morbidly excited to see what sort of fringe crank ends up successfully primarying Kemp in 2022 after this. Stacey Abrams must be overjoyed at her good luck upon realizing that she won’t have an uphill battle against an incumbent governor two years from now after all. Probably she’ll be facing election-truther Doug Collins or some QAnon crank handpicked by Trump for his endorsement. Trump’s specific grievance against Kemp is unclear but I think it’s supposed to be. There’s no thought-through theory of malfeasance here; it’s as simple as Trump having lost a state he was supposed to win and being a child about it by trying to blame others for his failure. Kemp failed him and secretary of state Brad Raffensperger failed him because they… didn’t rig the election in his favor when they realized the vote would be close, I guess? The nearest thing he has to a concrete allegation is ye olde Dominion software conspiracy, which ironically was debunked by Georgia’s own hand recount of paper ballots. (Trump has never explained how he was able to win battlegrounds like Iowa and Ohio comfortably even though they used Dominion software too.) Amazingly, he went out of his way in his interview this morning to remind Georgia Republicans that Dominion machines will also be used in the Senate runoff elections: “Look at the election you have coming up [in Georgia] right now. You’re using the same garbage machinery, Dominion” — Trump demoralizes Republicans by suggesting their votes don’t matter because the upcoming Senate runoffs in Georgia are rigged pic.twitter.com/aYM6KcGaos — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 29,2020 If you’re an election truther who’s convinced himself that the fix is in with Dominion, why would you turn out for another election in which Dominion machines will be used? Also, where’s Trump getting the idea that Abrams has “collected” 850,000 votes from people? She’s been posting updates on her Twitter feed about how many Georgians have *requested* mail-in ballots for the runoff.
