MAJOR BREAKING: Trump Plans to Declare Georgia’s Senators “Illegitimate”
Donald Trump is reportedly about to attack an election he lost five years ago, and the receipts were waiting for him before he even opened his mouth.
On Monday night, the Washington Reporter, a conservative outlet founded by Republican political consultants, reported that Trump is planning to announce that Georgia Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are “illegitimate” because of fraud. The claim rests on a single unnamed source, and the announcement could reportedly come as soon as tonight.
Here is what actually happened in January 2021. Ossoff defeated David Perdue by roughly 55,000 votes. Warnock defeated Kelly Loeffler by roughly 93,000. Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, certified both results, and both Republican incumbents conceded within days.
Georgia elections reporter Stephen Fowler needed less than an hour to respond. He posted the 2021 turnout analysis showing the seats flipped because of “a larger decline in white rural turnout.”
And who kept those rural Republicans home? Trump did. He spent the weeks before the runoffs telling Georgia Republicans the election was rigged and their votes would not count. Enough of them believed him to stay home. He is now preparing to call two senators illegitimate over a loss his own lies delivered..
The timing is not a mystery. Ossoff is on the ballot this November in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country. If you are afraid you cannot beat a senator at the polls, you declare the polls fake in advance.
Georgia has seen this movie before. The state counted its 2020 votes three times. Court after court asked Trump’s lawyers to show the fraud, and they never could.
Trump is not contesting the last election. He is pre-writing his excuse for losing the next one.