As is typical for Donald Trump?
He’s attacking someone that did NOT bend to do his wishes ….
This isn’t gonna make Georgia Governor Kemp try to throw the upcoming TWO US Senate runoff races going on in his state, nor is it gonna make the people counting and certifying the race bend either….
It might even depress the Republican turnout for the January election and help the Democrats gain a Tie/Majority in the US Senate…
But then Trump really isn’t change even after ‘his’ way of doing things cost him his job….
President Trump on Sunday said he regretted endorsing Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), taking a swipe at the top Republicans in the state ahead of two critical Senate runoff elections.
The president decried the use of Dominion Voting Systems machines in Georgia, which are the subject of unproven conspiracies among some conservatives. He placed blame at the feet of Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for approving the rules of the election.
“Everything has to be approved by the legislature, and they had judges making deals, and they had electoral officials making deals like this character in Georgia who’s a disaster,” Trump said of Raffensperger, who has defended the integrity of the presidential election in Georgia, where President-elect Joe Biden defeated Trump by just more than 12,000 votes…
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Trump’s rhetoric has raised alarm among some in the GOP who worry that the president will discourage his supporters from voting in the Senate races in January.
Sens. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) are facing Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, respectively. Both Perdue and Loeffler have called for Raffensperger to step down….
Good. Maybe these Georgia Republicans won’t vote for these Kemp puppets who aren’t MAGA enough–aka Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
Yes!
Scott, your Senator Blunt was on ABC This Week this morning with Dana Bash, and while acknowledging the substance, wouldn’t state flatly that Joe Biden had won the Presidency.
Jack might be interested to know that newly-elected Cong.-elect Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) was also on one of the morning talk shows (I think Fox News Sunday with Brett Baier). together with someone James would know well, Cong.-elect Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) The female proportion of the House Republican Conference in the next Congress will be more than double today’s. And someone said or wrote that (despite the Base),none of the 8 or 9 new Republican members are white Anglo men (like most of us here).
Blunt is a MAGA bootlicker as Jack would call him. Not surprised.
Here’s the clip (it was on CNN’s State of the Union, usually hosted by Jake Tapper):
GOP Senator: Biden ‘likely’ to be sworn in as president
State of the Union
Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri tells CNN’s Dana Bash that he is moving forward on inauguration planning with the “likely” Biden administration.
Source: CNN
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/11/29/sotu-biden-likely.cnn
POLITICO
Sen. Blunt deflects on calling Biden ‘president-elect’
By Evan Semones 5 hrs ago
Sen. Roy Blunt repeatedly declined to refer to Joe Biden as the “president-elect” on Sunday, despite acknowledgments from some fellow Senate Republicans colleagues who have recognized the former vice president’s electoral win.
Roy Blunt wearing a suit and tie smiling and looking at the camera: Sen. Roy Blunt called Donald Trump “president-elect” the day after the 2016 election. © Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo Sen. Roy Blunt called Donald Trump “president-elect” the day after the 2016 election.
“Well, we’re certainly moving forward as if that what is going to happen on January the 20th,” the Missouri Republican said when asked by CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” whether Biden was the president-elect. “We are working with the Biden administration, likely administration, on both the transition and the inauguration as if we are moving forward.”
But Blunt, who chairs the Senate Rules Committee that is responsible for overseeing the election, demurred when pressed again by Bash on whether Biden was indeed the president-elect, saying the title should only be applied after the Electoral College meets in its states in mid-December.
“Well, the president-elect will be the president-elect when the electors vote for him. There is no official job of president-elect,” the Missouri Republican said.
Blunt referred to President Donald Trump as “president-elect” in a statement released the day after the 2016 election where he congratulated Trump on his win over Hillary Clinton.
A small but growing number of Republican senators, including Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) and Pat Toomey (Pa.), have publicly conceded in recent weeks that Trump lost, even though Trump’s campaign has continued to mount — and lose — legal fights challenging states’ election results with claims of widespread voter fraud. Many other Republican leaders have not acknowledged Biden’s win, drawing criticism from those who say they’re enabling the president as he undermines confidence in American institutions.
Blunt, who previously oversaw elections when he was Missouri’s secretary of state, declined to say if he had seen evidence of fraud in November’s election, but said Trump’s team of lawyers had failed to present evidence “that was acceptable to any court.”
“I think the system, frankly, was more secure than it’s ever been before. And the president deserves some credit for that,” Blunt said.
Blunt said that while he hasn’t had any conversations with Trump about Biden’s inauguration ceremony in January 2021, he hopes the president will attend.
“I have certainly encouraged his staff to look at the transition now, look at the opportunity in Georgia to help us win these Senate seats, look at what the president can do, if the president is leaving the White House, as he says he will do if he loses the Electoral College vote, to help us win back the House in 2022,” Blunt said. “I think there is a big role for President Trump. And I hope he embraces that and looks at how you move to whatever comes next for him, assuming that this election works out the way it appears it will.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/blunt-deflects-on-calling-biden-president-elect/ar-BB1bsLaL
I hope Trump doesn’t appear at the Inauguration.
Better that he slink out of town(ala John Adams prior to Jefferson’s inaugural in 1801).
If he shows up it’s going to be a spectacle with him making crude comments and still claiming he won.
Tradition be gone.
Get this gangster out of town and let’s try to move on.
Yup Jack….
Let the low lifer just crawl away….
I don’t know Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.), but I have met my House guy Rep. Meeks several times….
He ran unopposed after rolling over an ill-advised primary challenge ….
Meeks is up for the Foreign Relations House chair job…
Although I know very little about her, I was familiar with Nicole Malliotakis’ unusual name because she won over 300,000 votes on the Republican & Conservative tickets trying to unseat Mayor Bill de Blasio (Democratic & Working Families, just over 725,000 votes) in the last New York City mayoral election (Nov. 2017).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_New_York_City_mayoral_election
https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/new-york-general-elections
Since you’re so close to the City, I’m surprised that you don’t at least recognize the name.
Before running for Mayor, she represented Brooklyn and Staten Island at the New York State Assembly in Albany.
She’s not quite a Dreamer, but her mother (like Marco Rubio’s father) was a refugee immigrant from Cuba. She says she’s considering a Freedom Squad of GOP women to oppose the Squad of one of her campaign targets, AOC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Malliotakis
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/nyregion/nicole-malliotakis-defeat-max-rose.html
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-nicole-malliotakis-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-squad-20201129-nmg2en7u5rednfjrrg5gw53jcu-story.html
I live next to Queens…..
Meeks, Rice, Suozzi are ALL people I have actually spent time in the presence of….
No De Blasio or even Cuomo