Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is not blaming the scandal-plagued impeached president for his loss to Joe Biden. Instead, Graham is blaming voting rights activist Stacey Abrams — and it’s weird because former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said something similar this week. Republicans have to “turn out more votes than Stacey Abrams can steal” in Georgia’s Senate runoffs, Gingrich said on Monday. I see a pattern here.
The Hill reports that Graham said on ‘The Mike Gallagher Show’ that Abrams “conned” Republicans in Georgia into a consent decree. The state agreed to standardized rules about judging signatures on mail-in ballots and notifying voters if there were problems, but Republicans insist that that tainted the election somehow.
“Stacey Abrams conned the Republican leadership in Georgia into a consent decree that basically adulterated the signature verification system so that you’re comparing the ballot signature to the application signature,” Graham said. “They’re the same person who did the fraud. You should be comparing the ballot signature, the envelope signature on the ballot, to a signature that existed before the application was made. She changed that.”
And Kayleigh McEnany, of course:
Right now, Governor Brian Kemp is no different than failed gubernatorial leftist Stacey Abrams.
It’s quite simple: Call a special legislative session to demand SIGNATURE MATCH — an electoral safeguard for 11/3/20 & for 1/5/21.
Sad to see INDISCERNIBLE RINOs & Dems!
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) December 8, 2020
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Trump has made the same accusation, too, and it’s been debunked by the Associated Press.
“There is nothing in the consent decree that prevents Georgia election clerks from scrutinizing signatures,” the AP reported. The legal settlement signed in March addresses accusations about a lack of statewide standards for judging signatures on absentee ballot envelopes.”
Republicans are just mad that Abrams successfully encouraged people to vote.
🚨BREAKING: More than 750,000 Georgians have requested their ballots for the January 5 runoff elections. Have you? Request yours today and let’s get it done… again: https://t.co/xCyh7BhY3o. 🗳👏🏿 #gapol pic.twitter.com/q1xSybczXg
— Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) November 23, 2020
According to a new survey, nearly 90 percent of Black female voters in Georgia said they are likely to vote in the Senate runoff elections next month, determining which party controls the upper chamber. If Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff win, the Senate will be tied, giving Vice President-elect Kamala Harris the tie-breaking vote. And that would demote Senator Mitch McConnell from his role as majority leader.
So, there’s a lot of stake, and Republicans are losing their shit after Trump was defeated by a landslide, and now McConnell might lose his power as Senate majority leader.
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