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Georgia deciding US Senate control in election’s final day
“Georgians cast their ballots Tuesday in two critical races that will determine control of the U.S. Senate and, in turn, the fate of President-elect Joe Biden’s legislative agenda. Two months after Election Day 2020, the voting will also impact Donald Trump’s final days in the White House,” according to the Associated Press.
“Even with the high stakes, state election officials reported light turnout early in the day, including across the deeply conservative region where Trump held a rally Monday night to encourage GOP voters to turn out in force.
“At issue were two Senate runoff elections, leftovers from the November general election when none of the candidates hit the 50% threshold. Democrats needed to win both races to seize Senate control — and with it control of the new Congress when Biden takes office in two weeks.”
Experts: Trump’s call could put president in legal jeopardy
“Experienced prosecutors, election lawyers and some public officials have piled on calling for criminal investigations into whether President Donald Trump broke election fraud when he pressured Georgia officials on a phone call Saturday to ‘find’ 11,870 votes that would reverse his loss in the state,” reported CNN.
The explosive audio from Trump’s call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was first published by the Washington Post. Read a transcript or hear the entire call here.
Fact check: Trump’s made-up claims on the Georgia call
The AP published an annotated transcript of the call, which refutes falsehoods Trump peddled on the call point by point. Among the false statements made by Trump: “If we can go over some of the numbers, I think it’s pretty clear we won, we won very substantially in Georgia.”
Trump urges Pence to ‘come through for us.’ Here’s his latest scheme.
Trump did not stop there. CNN lays out exactly what Vice President Mike Pence can and cannot do to aid Trump’s mission to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
According to CNN: “The president explained on Twitter on Tuesday: ‘The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.’
“What he’s talking about is the counting of electoral votes during a joint session of Congress that will convene (at 10 a.m. PST) on Wednesday to accept the votes cast by the Electoral College in December.
