Wednesday on Political Rewind: The schism between Georgia Republicans intensifies. State party chairman David Shafer is suing Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a last-ditch effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory here.
Georgia’s state Senate Republicans conceded Tuesday they don’t have the votes to call for a special legislative session or the authority to overturn the Nov. 3 presidential election, but they vowed to restrict access to mail-in voting when they return next month for the new legislative session.
Tuesday on Political Rewind: President Donald Trump and his allies continue to spin conspiracy theories aimed at overturning the outcome of the vote. Georgia continues to be a prime target, despite repeated failures to change the results here.
Meanwhile, the Senate runoff election continues to be dominated by the president’s refusal to concede defeat.
Back in September, when election fever was running high in Savannah, angry conversations erupted around town about outside money trying to sway the race for district attorney.
Local Facebook groups with conservative leanings, Republican Party stalwarts and self-described patriot organizations were outraged over the Justice & Public Safety PAC, a Washington, D.C.-based political action committee with a track record of supporting progressive politicians. In the Democratic primary, the group had supported Shalena Cook Jones, a former assistant district attorney challenging incumbent Meg Daly Heap.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Trump-affiliated lawyer Sidney Powell seeking to overturn Georgia's election results for lacking standing, being filed too late and for requesting "the most extraordinary relief ever sought" in an election case.
Today on Political Rewind: Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Democratic challenger the Rev. Raphael Warnock traded attacks in the runoff debates. Loeffler dodged questions about President Donald Trump’s false election claims while Warnock worked to fend off accusations that his liberal policies are out of step with Georgia values.
Georgia's election results were recertified Monday to show President-elect Joe Biden still won the state, as election officials continue to forcefully debunk misinformation pushed by top Republicans seeking to cast doubt on election integrity.
"I support a strong public option that's free for the poor, that's affordable for everybody, and that's comprehensive," Senate candidate Jon Ossoff told GPB News' Sarah Rose in a wide-ranging interview.
An empty lectern, a "radical liberal" and a pledge to take a coronavirus vaccine were among the highlights of a pair of U.S. Senate debates in Georgia on Sunday ahead of a Jan. 5 runoff that will decide control of the chamber.
Since Joe Biden turned Georgia blue, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has become enemy No. 1 in his own party. As his critics level malicious attacks against him, Raffensperger is adamant: The election was sound, and the results stand.
The president's legal team came to a Georgia State Senate hearing Thursday to share allegations of fraud and misconduct with Georgia's election. Most of the claims were false, misleading or lacking actual evidence.
Friday on Political Rewind: Wherever they turn, Georgians have been inundated with political ads in the leadup to the Jan. 5 runoff.
An unprecedented $300 million has been spent on ads on television, radio and online as Senate-appointee Kelly Loeffler faces Democrat challenger Raphael Warnock while Republican Sen. David Perdue faces Jon Ossoff.
Some Georgia Republicans have continued the president's crusade to seek to have the state's election results overturned following Trump's White House loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
Conspiracy theorists falsely claimed that a video of an election worker during the Georgia machine recount revealed fraud in the 2020 election. All it showed was an election worker performing a routine part of the process, according to election officials.
