In Sept. 2021 Trump told a Georgia rally it would be fine with him if Democrat candidate Stacey Abrams won instead of GOP Gov. Kemp: ““Stacey-would you like to take his (Kemp’s) place? It’s OK with me,” Trump told supporters at Georgia State Fairgrounds. “We don’t want her!” someone yelled from the crowd."…9/25/2021…(image, Stacey Abrams)
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4/23/2020, On national television, Trump strongly rebuked Georgia Republican Governor Kemp for daring to open a tiny bit of his state during ongoing Trump supported Covid “social distancing” and lockdowns. “I told the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, that I disagree strongly with his decision to open certain facilities which are in violation of the phase one guidelines.” image, CNN
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“In the two years prior to [Nov. 2020] election day, Trump repeatedly announced that Democrats were going to try to rig the 2020 election against him. He said it at rallies. He said it in interviews and tweets. If we take him at his word, he knew perfectly well an attempt was coming. And so I ask: What was Team Trump’s fraud prevention plan? What did he actually do to reduce the chances of ballot-stuffing, voting machine manipulation, fraudulent mail-in ballots, Chinese election-tampering, etc.? From what anyone can tell, the answer is: nothing. It should have pushed for the abolition of computerized vote-counting machines altogether, since their vulnerability to error has been amply documented for decades...Add to all this...an odd passivity underneath all the vituperative language.”…2/9/2021, “Tal Bachman: A Quick Post-Mortem,” The Bachman Beat
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11/9/22, “A Nation Rejoices! A Humiliating Defeat for Trump,” Ann Coulter
“On an otherwise disastrous night for Republicans, who were the biggest winners?
ANSWER: Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida and Gov. Brian Kemp in Georgia—the two Republicans Donald Trump hates with the hot, hot hate of a thousand suns.
Which Republicans most underperformed?
ANSWER: Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania and Herschel Walker in Georgia —
two nominees hand-picked by Trump.
The first horror of a long Tuesday night came soon after the polls closed
in Pennsylvania,
with the GOP gubernatorial nominee,
Some of the tipoffs that Mastriano might not have been the strongest candidate for the GOP were:
—A week before the primary, he spoke at a QAnon rally, featuring a film claiming 9/11 was an inside job [the wrong time for the topic but showing a film about it is even worse; if instead he’d shown a live stream of millions of illegals crossing the wide open US border he’d probably have won in a landslide] and that John F. Kennedy Jr. was assassinated because he “knew too much.”
––He called abortion the “No. 1 issue” [54% of abortions today are by taking a pill, shouldn’t have been a political or Supreme Ct. issue] and promised to ban all abortions with no exceptions even for rape, incest or the life of the mother. He also said women who violated the ban should be charged with murder.
–-He vowed to de-register all Pennsylvania voters and make them re-register to vote and said that, as governor,
he would choose who was allowed to certify elections.
Naturally, Trump endorsed him. After all, Mastriano had slavishly supported the ex-president’s stolen election claims–convening slates of fake electors and even showing up at the Capitol on Jan. 6. That’s just the ticket for a purple state, no?
On Tuesday night, Mastriano lost 42% to 55%. That can’t have helped Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican running for Senate, who was still hanging on the next day,
conceding with 47% of the vote to John Fetterman’s 50%.
In Georgia, we got both types of Trump’s electoral wizardry: the bad and the horrendously bad.
First, after narrowly losing the state in 2020,
he went on a jihad against the Republican governor, Brian Kemp, and secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger.
Still enraged with Kemp, he recruited and funded a primary opponent to the popular governor.
Luckily, Trump’s designated candidate, former Sen. David Perdue, was available,
having lost his own reelection to the Senate
entirely because of Trump.
In case you’ve forgotten, Trump held rallies in Georgia leading up to the runoff between Perdue and Raphael Warnock,…
[12/21/2020, Now a Lame Duck, Trump in late Dec. 2020 held a “rally” in Georgia supposedly to support his selected candidate in the Georgia US Senate runoff. But Trump put his beloved daughter, lifelong New York Democrat, Ivanka, on the stage in Georgia, where she urged voters to “fight for Trump,” which had to be confusing or those who thought they’d come to a “rally” for David Perdue or Kelly Loeffler.
“Ivanka Trump urges voters to ‘fight for Trump’ at Georgia Senate run-off campaign rally,” UK Independent, Oliver O’Connell...“Ivanka Trump speaks during a campaign rally for Republican Georgia Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue on 21 December 2020, AP]
(continuing): “denouncing the popular Republican governor and telling people not to bother voting
because the system was rigged.
[Democrat] Warnock won and Perdue was unemployed,
so [next,] Trump got him [Perdue] to run against [sitting Republican Governor] Kemp.
Trump so hated Kemp that he finally dipped into his $100 million political PAC
to fund something other than his own businesses and rallies,
giving a half-million dollars to Perdue.
Primary election results: Kemp trounced Perdue 74% to 22%
Raffensperger–the Georgia secretary of state who Trump bullied because he refused to scare up 11,780 more Trump votes in 2020
and who he accused of committing “a criminal offense” —
won his primary by nearly 20 points.
I think Georgia voters were trying to send a message: Please just give us a normal Republican.
Trump: Message not received!
Having already caused the loss of
Trump’s second great idea was to hand-pick a candidate for the Senate based on stupid, narcissistic reasons having
nothing to do with strategy or the state, but
just because he knows the guy.
In March 2021 he put out a statement: “Wouldn’t it be fantastic if the legendary Herschel Walker ran for the United States Senate in Georgia? He would be unstoppable, just like he was when he played for the Georgia Bulldogs, and in the NFL. He is also a GREAT person. Run Herschel, run!”
Senate candidate Herschel Walker is 100% Trump’s baby.
It’s not as if running for the Senate had been Walker’s lifelong dream. It was Trump who decided he would be the nominee simply because he’d played for Trump’s (now-defunct) United States Football League and had appeared as a contestant on “Celebrity Apprentice.”
This is how Trump picks candidates.
Still, the race should have been a cakewalk. On Tuesday night [11/8/22], Kemp and Raffensperger each won their elections by about 8 points. It’s reasonable to conclude that
any other Republican would have beaten Warnock by the same healthy margin. Same state, same election, same political party.
Instead, the Georgia Senate race ended up being the most expensive in the country--money that Republicans really could have used in other races. Walker, as of this writing, appears to be headed for a runoff. Trump is on track to screw that one up too, by announcing that he’s running for president,
so he can make it all about himself again.
That’s exactly what he did at his campaign rallies this week,
showing up where he wasn’t wanted
and doing the same old schtick about the Russia investigation,
his “perfect” call to Zelensky, “Shifty Schiff” (Rep. Adam Schiff)
and what an awesome president he was–
including what a badass he’d be on crime. [Yet again, Trump actions are exact opposite of his “tough talk:” Trump and Jared reversed “tough on crime” laws in 2018, proudly passing “Criminal justice reform” via “First Step Act,” with “bipartisan” support. “[Proponents] secured a powerful ally early on in Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner....Under intense pressure from his own party and the White House, [GOP leader Mitch] Mr. McConnell relented…
By winning the support of a tough-talking, [supposedly] anticrime president
who enjoys deep loyalty among Republican voters [who sadly believe Trump when he says he’s “a badass on crime”] the groups believe they have shifted the debate in a way that could set the stage for additional changes and elevate the criminal justice debate before the 2020 Democratic primaries.” 12/18/2018, NY Times].
(continuing): “(Trump during the first debate with Biden: “You called them ‘super-predators.’ African Americans are super-predators.
I’m letting people out of jail now!”)
If Walker loses, let the record show that this will be the third consecutive Georgia Senate seat Trump has lost for Republicans.
When the Republican governor of the second-largest state wins his reelection by 55%
and the Republican governor of the third-largest state wins by 60%,
the GOP doesn’t need another one of its moronic “autopsies” of the party,
promising to be just like the Democrats.
The only thing we need now is an autopsy of Trump.”
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Above, Jan. 16, 2020, Time cover: “The Family Business: The Unusual Power of Jared Kushner”
“Above the door [in Kushner’s office] is a commemorative poster for the criminal-justice bill Kushner shepherded, signed by the rapper Kanye West. (To Jared from your friend Ye.)”]
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My comment: It was never supposed to be about Trump. It was supposed to be about us. But all you hear is 24/7 Trump.
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