The Georgia special election is on January 5th, a little more than a month away. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock have been asking Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to come down to Georgia and help them campaign a bit, and I bet Kamala gets sent down there. The Georgia GOP also wants Donald Trump to come down and campaign for their two corrupt AF senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. Trump is tentatively scheduled to go to Georgia this weekend, but considering how salty and tantrumy he still is about Georgia voting for Joe Biden, I feel like he might pull out. He also won’t shut up about his dumb conspiracies involving hacked voting machines and “massive dumps” of Democratic votes. All of which has led to Georgia Republicans believing like their votes won’t count, so why should they even bother showing up for the special election? They badgered GOP chairwoman Ronna McDaniel about this over the weekend:

In Georgia today, @GOPChairwoman Ronna (seriously, that’s her name) McDaniel was having a hard time convincing MAGAs to vote after @realDonaldTrump already convinced them that the election was rigged using machines that REPUBLICANS WANTED. pic.twitter.com/UMNTePf1Ha

— michaelharriot (@michaelharriot) November 29, 2020

Yes, this is all the last gasp of the Trump era: he sowed division and baseless conspiracies for years, and now his millions of supporters hang on his every word and every tweet, and they only believe what comes from him. Which means that everything is all about Trump:

“The president has basically taken hostage this race,” said Brendan Buck, once a top adviser to former House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Especially fraught are Trump’s continued attacks on Georgia’s Republican state officials and the state’s election system, potentially taking away from his public praise of Loeffler and Perdue.

“Trump’s comments are damaging the Republican brand,” argued Republican donor Dan Eberhart, who added that the president is “acting in bad sportsmanship and bad faith” instead of emphasizing Republicans’ need to maintain Senate control.

The GOP needs one more seat for a majority. Democrats need Jon Ossoff to defeat Perdue and Raphael Warnock to defeat Loeffler to force a 50-50 Senate, positioning Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as the tie-breaking majority vote.

Trump on Monday blasted Gov. Brian Kemp as “hapless” for not intervening to “overrule” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s certification of Biden’s win. A day earlier, Trump told Fox News he was “ashamed” he’d endorsed Kemp in his 2018 GOP primary for governor. Kemp’s office noted in response that state law gives Kemp no authority to overturn election results, despite Trump’s contention that Kemp could “easily” invoke “emergency powers.” Meanwhile, Raffensperger, a Trump supporter like Kemp, has accused the president of throwing him “under the bus” for doing his job.

[From AP]

I think it was Chris Hayes who argued that Trump never really had an agenda for his administration, and that Mitch McConnell basically imposed HIS agenda and Moscow Mitch got everything he wanted. And now the Georgia Senate runoff is the only thing left for Moscow Mitch to retain the Senate Majority and Trump is basically trying to screw Mitch over. I honestly don’t think Trump even sees it that way – it’s too complicated for Trump’s peabrain. All Trump knows is that he’s bigly aggrieved and he wants to take everyone down with his administration.

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