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tomorrowusa · 1 year

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Republicans don’t like it when students vote. In red states, the GOP makes voting as difficult as possible for students living on campus or in college towns. And they would like to make it even more difficult.

One Trump Republican was particularly blatant about saying so at a gathering of filthy rich GOP donors.

A top Republican legal strategist told a roomful of GOP donors over the weekend that conservatives must band together to limit voting on college campuses, same-day voter registration and automatic mailing of ballots to registered voters, according to a copy of her presentation reviewed by The Washington Post.

Cleta Mitchell, a longtime GOP lawyer and fundraiser who worked closely with former president Donald Trump to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, gave the presentation at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Nashville on Saturday.

Just to clarify, that was Saturday April 15th.

The presentation — which had more than 50 slides and was labeled “A Level Playing Field for 2024” — offered a window into a strategy that seems designed to reduce voter access and turnout among certain groups, including students and those who vote by mail, both of which tend to skew Democratic.

Mitchell did not respond to a request for comment, and it is unclear whether she delivered the presentation exactly as it was prepared on her PowerPoint slides. But in addition to the presentation, The Post listened to audio of portions of the presentation obtained by liberal journalist Lauren Windsor in which Mitchell discussed limiting campus and early voting.

Brace yourself for some idiotic GOP attempt at stereotyping.

“What are these college campus locations?” she asked, according to the audio. “What is this young people effort that they do? They basically put the polling place next to the student dorm so they just have to roll out of bed, vote, and go back to bed.”

Personally, I’ve always felt energized – empowered – when I’ve voted. And since polls don’t close anywhere in the US before 6 PM (at the very earliest), the thought of waking up to go to vote and going back to bed right afterwards seems like Republican asininity in the extreme.

Basically Cleta admitted that this isn’t about winning elections. It’s part of a greater blueprint to keep people the GOP doesn’t like from voting at all.

Mitchell told her RNC audience that her organization, the Election Integrity Network, “is NOT about winning campaigns,” according to the text of the presentation. But the slides gave little other rationale for why campus or mail voting should be curtailed. At another point in the presentation, she said the nation’s electoral systems must be saved “for any candidate other than a leftist to have a chance to WIN in 2024.”

Pumpkin Face himself weighed in.

In Trump’s private comments to donors at the event, he said that he eventually wants to end all mail and early voting, according to audio obtained by The Post. But until that happens, he said, Republicans had to get better at it.

Remember Trump’s infamous call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger? Apparently ol’ Cleta had something to do with that.

Mitchell advised Trump and was on the call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021 when Trump asked Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn the result.

“All we have to do, Cleta, is find 11,000-plus votes,” Trump said on the call, which is now under investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as part of a broader inquiry into efforts to overturn the 2020 result in Georgia.

No matter how inconvenient it may be, we need to vote in every single election and for every office. There’s no such thing as an unimportant election. Voting consistently is the only way to preserve democracy.

People on the far right have been successful because they’ve taken the long view. It took them 49 years but by never missing an election they paved the way for the repeal of Roe v. Wade. And they’re still not finished trying to drag us back to the pre-Enlightenment dark ages.

Do whatever it takes to register and vote – in EVERY single election and for every office.

Be A Voter - Vote Save America

A friendly reminder that voter registration is done by address. If you’ve moved since the last election, even just down the street, you must register at your new address.

An archived copy of the linked article.

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vomitdodger · 1 year

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Exactly why you should give to individual patriotic candidates and NOT the RNC. The GOP as a whole is just as corrupted as the commie Dems. The GOP just happens to have a handful of patriots fighting the good fight. And ALL the leadership of the GOP and RNC has to go.

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gwydionmisha · 1 year

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#RNC #War on Voting #Voter Suppression #Republican Agenda #News

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the-sayuri-rin · 1 year

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Trump coup attorney Cleta Mitchell wants to "combat" voting on college campuses, citing North Carolina and Wisconsin, and says that when Republicans win the state Senate in Virginia, they can eliminate 45 days of early voting and same day voter registration.

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO here

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kp777 · 1 year

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#voter suppression #republicans #republican national committee #rnc

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pscottm · 1 year

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“A top Republican legal strategist told a roomful of GOP donors over the weekend that conservatives must band together to limit voting on college campuses, same-day voter registration and automatic mailing of ballots to registered voters,” the Washington Post reports.

“Cleta Mitchell, a longtime GOP lawyer and fundraiser who worked closely with former president Donald Trump to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, gave the presentation at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Nashville on Saturday.”

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truck-fump · 1 year

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<b>Trump</b>, facing probes, seeks to assert dominance over GOP at donor retreat

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Trump, facing probes, seeks to assert dominance over GOP at donor retreat

The former president’s speech came after other Republicans urged the party to move on to other candidates in 2024.

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kayla1993-world · 1 year

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Trump Arrives in Tennessee as Republicans Under Pressure

Trump and other high-profile Republicans are traveling to the Tennessee capital this weekend for the Republican National Committee's (RNC) donor retreat in hopes of wooing major GOP donors to support their potential presidential bids. Other potential candidates attending the event include former Vice President Mike Pence, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, and New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu. This is according to a Tennessean report. The event comes as the Tennessee Republican Party faces national scrutiny over recent state legislature actions. Youth-led protests ensued following the mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville last month, with more than 1,000 protesters gathering at the Tennessee state Capitol building to call for gun control measures. Three Democratic state lawmakers—Representatives Justin Jones, Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson—protested on the floor of the state house over the legislature's inaction on gun violence. Republican lawmakers then voted to expel Representatives Jones and Pearson from the state House, though they have both now been reinstated. Republicans then faced accusations of racism over the vote, as Jones and Pearson are Black. Johnson, who was not expelled, is white. However, Reuters previously reported that Johnson may not have been removed because, unlike Jones and Pearson, she did not use a megaphone to lead chants during the protest. Republicans have said the two lawmakers were expelled for breaching legislature rules and violating decorum. However, Democrats have argued the expulsions were not only racist, but anti-democratic. According to Reuters, the state's House, controlled by Republicans, voted 72-25 along party lines to remove Jones and 69-26 to remove Pearson. When Johnson was expelled, the vote was 65-30. Sixty-six votes are needed for expulsion. Their expulsions were met with nationwide rebuke, with many high-profile Democrats voicing outrage over the move. Vice President Kamala Harris visited Nashville earlier in April to meet with lawmakers, known as the "Tennessee Three." Tennessee Republicans have also faced backlash for their latest drag laws. Last month, Governor Bill Lee signed into law a bill restricting drag shows across the state. However, a judge last week halted this law from taking effect, citing free speech issues. Critics have called out Tennessee Republicans for focusing on hot-button culture war issues such as banning drag shows rather than banning assault weapons frequently used in mass shootings. Meanwhile, Trump himself continues to face legal pressure in several cases. Just weeks prior, he became the first former U.S. president to be charged in a criminal case. Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 charges of falsifying business records earlier this month. The charges stem from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's investigation into an alleged hush money payment made during his 2016 presidential campaign. The payment was made for an alleged affair between Trump and adult film actor Stormy Daniels. The former president denied the affair and maintained his innocence in the case. He also faces two investigations from the Justice Department—one into his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and the other into classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago residence by the FBI last August. Trump is also under investigation in Georgia over his conduct surrounding the 2020 presidential election. He denied wrongdoing in each case. Despite legal troubles, Trump remains the frontrunner to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, as he remains deeply popular with large swaths of conservative voters. FiveThirtyEight aggregates recent polls and shows Trump leading the GOP field with 49.6 percent GOP voter support. His next top opponent, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has not yet announced if he plans to run in 2024, polls at 25.9 percent.

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seymour-butz-stuff · 3 years

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Wealthy Republican donors were reportedly ready for a big weekend in Palm Beach with the Republican National Committee, chock full of strategizing, power points, and a clear vision to regaining congressional majorities in 2022.

Instead, they received a weekend of misdirection and deflation courtesy of Donald Trump, who delivered the keynote address Saturday night at his Mar-a-Lago resort. But Trump effectively hung over the entire getaway like a dark cloud of grievance, always at the ready to rain on Republicans’ revival parade after he cost them the House, the Senate, and the White House.

In fact, the best framework for assessing the complicating factor of Trump as Republicans try to retake the House and the Senate is viewing it through the lens of the shadow he cast over the January runoff bids of Georgia's two GOP senators. Try as they might, Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue couldn't escape the pall of Trump's capriciousness and endless grousing long enough to generate a coherent message that stood separate from Dear Loser.

Already, Trump is serving as the same foil to GOP efforts in the midterms. He's competing with them for fundraising, urging his cultists to send their donations to his own Save America PAC instead of "RINOS," or Republicans in Name Only. Trump currently has $85 million cash on hand to the RNC's $84 million. He's bent on making his perceived detractors pay for their disloyalty and demanding primaries that could hobble the GOP in the general election. And he simply cannot get past the fact that he was 2020's biggest loser long enough to let anyone reimagine the future because, goddess forbid, what if he didn't dominate that vision.

Politico Playbook reports that the GOP's top donors went to Palm Beach this weekend "excited to be schmoozed," eager to Trump, most importantly, expecting to learn how their largesse would help Republicans recapture Congress and ultimately the White House.

"Trump’s speech didn’t do any of that," writes Politico. One attendee offered this shocker about Trump's keynote on the final night of the retreat: “It was horrible, it was long and negative.” Gee, never saw that coming. “It was dour. He didn’t talk about the positive things that his administration has done.” Like kill over half a million Americans and counting, we presume.

Trump praised the GOP's most sociopathic governors, like Florida's Ron DeSantis and South Dakota's Kristi Noem. He fawned over one of the GOP's most prolific disinformation spreaders, Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. Naturally, he also kneecapped his own sycophantic vice president, Mike Pence; lashed out at Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp for failing to deliver the state; and skewered Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as a "dumb son of a bitch" and a "stone cold loser." McConnell is loathsome, to be sure, but he did manage to win his reelect—a fact that must leave Trump seething with jealousy.

Anyway, very uplifting stuff. So uplifting that Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, chief of the GOP Senate campaign arm, delivered a newly conceived award to Trump over the weekend amid his anti-McConnell rant—the NRSC’s “Champion for Freedom Award.” Oh, and speaking of freedom, who could forget to shower praise and adulation on attendees of Trump’s Jan. 6 rally, which preceded the deadly Capitol siege? According to The New York Times, Trump waxed nostalgic about the crowd, "admiring how large it was." LOL. That crowd was estimated at tens of thousands at most—some 15,000 gathered south of the White House, with another 10,000 assembled outside the formal rally. The 800 or so who ultimately stormed the Capitol wreaked enormous havoc, but as Washington rallies go, the crowd that assembled at Trump's urging was about as overwhelming as the attendance at his 2016 inauguration.

But bottom line, Trump's diatribe was just a pitch perfect kickoff to the 2022 cycle. Perhaps not surprisingly, a lot of GOP mega donors are pretty sick of it. Party officials are clearly desperate to reap the benefits of Trump's cult following among working-class Americans, but many of the party's well-heeled donor class are itching to move on.

“It is very important the Republican Party puts Donald Trump as far into the past as possible,” William Oberndorf, a California investor who has lavished millions on GOP candidates in the past told the Times. Oberndorf pledged that moving forward he was only giving to Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach Trump, which will certainly ease up the pace of his donations. But he also put the onus of Trump's demise on President Joe Biden, saying Biden would "bear more responsibility than any group of Republican donors" for resurrecting Trump's future if he fails to win bipartisan support for his legislative initiatives.

Others tried to put some happy spin on the party's efforts to pick up the pieces following Trump's loss. “When you lose the White House, you kind of figure it’s going to take a little bit of healing, and I think probably first quarter has hopefully got us moving on a better path,” said Henry Barbour, an influential RNC member from Mississippi. Barbour admitted Trump is still a "big force" in the GOP. "But the party is bigger than any one candidate including Donald Trump,” he added.

Tell that to former Sens. Loeffler and Perdue, who alienated the Georgia suburbs while trying to turn out Trump's fervent followers in rural swaths of the state. There was just no good way for them to ride Trump's coattails without getting mired in his crap on the backend.

Now the Republican Party is rerunning that entire experiment in 2022, hoping that it will somehow get better with age. More power to 'em.

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hummingzone · 3 years

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RNC paid Trump's Mar-a-Lago over $175,000 for donor retreat

RNC paid Trump’s Mar-a-Lago over $175,000 for donor retreat

Former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort is in Palm Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle The Republican National Committee paid just over $175,000 to former President Donald Trump’s private club to host part of its spring donor retreat. Federal Election Commission filings show that the six-figure sum was paid in May to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, a month after the April donor event at the private club in…

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 3 years

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

March 8, 2021

Heather Cox Richardson

Lots of stuff simmering, but nothing you can’t miss if you want to take a break from the news today.

There are two stories I’m following.

The first is the fight between former president Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC). Last Friday, Trump’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to the RNC, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee—the three biggest Republican fundraising bodies—demanding they stop using his name and his photo to raise money. The former president is allegedly angry at the Republicans who failed to support him after the January 6 insurrection—especially Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)-- and would like to cut them out of the money he can raise.

Friday night, Trump released a series of endorsements for candidates he supports in 2022. He has warned the RNC that he will back primary candidates that support him rather than those whom he considers insufficiently loyal.

Today, the RNC rejected Trump’s attempt to protect his brand. A letter from the chief counsel of the RNC said the Republican Party ““has every right to refer to public figures as it engages in core, First Amendment-protected political speech, and it will continue to do so in pursuit of these common goals.”

Also today, the RNC moved part of its spring donor retreat, held in early April, to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, paying the former president for the use of his club and for meals. While most of the event will take place at a different hotel, Trump will address the organization at Mar-a-Lago.

At stake here, of course, is control of the Republican Party. Trump would like to be the party’s kingmaker; many Republicans would like to move him off center stage. But Trump is the party’s biggest fundraiser, so the RNC cannot simply toss him overboard, and he is determined to protect his brand.

How this plays out will say a lot about the future of the party.

The second story I’m following is that of the Senate filibuster.

A filibuster permits a senator to stop popular legislation. Initially, it required a senator to hold the floor by refusing to stop talking, which took many, many hours and was exhausting, so it was a last resort to stop something that otherwise would pass (and was almost always used to stop civil rights legislation). But, rules changes over time changed the filibuster to permit a senator to stop legislation simply by threatening to create such a roadblock.

This has meant that the burden of passing legislation has fallen on the majority, which needs to find 60 votes to stop a filibuster rather than a simple majority of 51 to pass a bill, while the role of the minority has simply been to refuse to entertain action. The Senate has largely ceased to legislate. This development has served the Republicans, who are happy not to pass legislation because they would like to turn the functions of government over to private interests, but frustrates the Democrats, who think that bills that pass the House of Representatives should get a hearing in the Senate and, if they get a yes vote from a majority of senators, should pass.

There has been resistance to ending the filibuster—including resistance from President Joe Biden—but there is increasing talk of returning the filibuster to its original form, requiring those opposed to a popular measure not simply to register their disapproval in order to take it off the calendar, but actually to hold the floor to talk a measure to death. When they give up, the measure can pass by a simple majority vote.

Reinstating the old system, in which a minority eager to stop passage of a bill must hold the floor and continue debate, has begun to win adherents, including Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV). “The filibuster should be painful, it really should be painful and we've made it more comfortable over the years,” Manchin said yesterday on the Fox News Channel. “Maybe it has to be more painful.”

At stake in this issue in the immediate future is the passage of H.R. 1, the For the People Act, a sweeping voting rights bill passed last week by the House of Representatives. Senate Republicans have vowed to kill the bill. Increasingly unpopular, Republicans are dependent on voter suppression techniques and gerrymandering—both addressed in the bill-- to continue to have a shot at winning elections. In illustration of that need, Republican legislatures across the country are currently trying to pass a slew of voter suppression measures.

For their part, Democrats recognize that if the Republicans’ voter suppression and gerrymandering techniques are allowed to go forward unchallenged, Democrats will be hard pressed ever again to win control of the government. The nation will, in effect, become a one-party state not unlike the one that controlled the American South from the 1870s to the 1960s.

So H.R. 1 spells the future of the American political system: with it, Republicans will have to reform and win elections on a level playing field; without it, Democrats will be unlikely to be able to compete against Republican rigging of the system.

The future of the nation depends on H.R. 1; the future of H.R. 1 depends on the filibuster.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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go-redgirl · 3 years

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***Live Updates*** Trump Holds Georgia Rally for Sens. Loeffler, Perdu

President Donald Trump will hold a Saturday evening rally in Valdosta, Georgia, for GOP Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue ahead of next month’s critical run-off elections that will determine control of the U.S. Senate.

Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates.

All times Eastern.

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9:01 PM: Trump says our fight to drain the Washington Swamp and reclaim our destiny has just begun. “We will never, ever surrender,” Trump says.

8:58 PM: Trump says everything they have achieved is on the line on January 5th and talks about the right to bear arms and religious liberty.

8:55 PM: Trump says he has built the greatest political movement in history over the last four years and he doesn’t want others to “rip it apart” after talking about his ally Ronna McDaniel being back at the RNC. Trump now listing off all of his accomplishments like he did during his campaign rallies. No new material.

8:50 PM: Trump asks supporters to vote in the runoff to show the radical left that they don’t surrender. Trump talks about winning back the White House in 2024 and says hopefully he won’t have to be a candidate again.

Trump now praises Doug Collins and asks if he wants to run for governor of Georgia in two years.

8:48 PM: Trump says Democrats are trying to take away the country and says “we’re going to be watching… every element of what they do” on January 5th and will watch the runoff election more closely than any election in history.

8:46 PM: Trump talking about glitches that went in favor of Biden. He says the left lies, cheats, and steals and are “ruthless” and “hellbent on getting power.” Trump says the left beats you down, shuts you up, and makes you retreat.

8:45 PM: Trump airing grievances about vote dumps in the middle of the night and wee hours in the morning in Midwestern states.

8:31 PM: Trump says Democrats can only win the Georgia runoff if they cheat. Trump says nobody cheats better than Democrats. Trump says “we have to hold the line” in Georgia and says Georgians need to register to vote before Monday.

He says Voter ID laws need to be passed after the runoff along with citizen confirmation.

8:30 PM: Trump asks Perder and Loeffler to come up and say a few words. Loeffler says Trump made America great again because he put America first. She says Trump created the strongest economy because he put the American worker first while standing up to cancel culture, Big Tech, China. Crowd chants “fight for Trump” as Perdue speaks.

Trump now talking about voter fraud in Georgia. He says he is deeply disturbed by the lying and cheating and he says Democrats will have dead people, illegal aliens, and people from out of state voting.

8:19 PM: Trump praises Loeffler for “standing up to the marxists” when law enforcement officials were attacked. He says she also introduced legislation to block gun-grabbing Democrats like Beto O’Rourke. Trump says Warnock has called police officers gangsters and wants to abolish cash bail.

“This is not for Georgia,” Trump says. He says Warnock should move to another state and try again. He hits Warnock for also being “anti-Israel.” Video plays of “dangerous” Warnock and his past statements, reminding voters he even defended Reverend “God Damn America” Wright.

8:15 PM: Trump says Ossoff is a “radical zealot” who supports “defunding the police” and the “Green New Deal” that Trump says will cost $100 trillion. He says Ossoff supports a government takeover of health care and nationwide lockdowns. He says Ossoff will be a “complete tool” of the radical left and their donors.

Trump then lets it slip that he raised $250 million dollars in the last couple of weeks.

8:07 PM: Trump talking up the brilliance of “America first” and he wonders how people can say they are opposed to “America first.” Trump now back to listing the accomplishments of Perdue and Loeffler.

8:06 PM: Trump says the happiest people right now are the Chinese and the Iranians because he lost.

8:03 PM: Trump says the “radical left” will win if Georgians don’t vote in protest.

“If you don’t vote, the socialists and the communists win,” Trump says.

8:02 PM: Trump now says he calls it “fake news” and “suppression news.” Trump says his attacks on Hunter Biden were hurting Joe Biden so Big Tech and the media decided, “under no circumstances will we ever talk about him again.”

He says it’s hard to have a scandal when nobody talks about it.

8:00 PM: Trump says Democrats want to take away borders and freedom and even Christmas as Melania looks on…. He says he has to be careful when he is “sarcastic.”

7:58 PM: Trump says the Georgia Senate seats are the “last line of defense” against all that his administration accomplished.

7:56 PM: Trump now talking about how experts said he was going to lose Texas and he won the state big. He says these are “suppression polls.”

7:53 PM: Trump talks up the Dow Jones and breaking “30,000, a number that was unthinkable.” Trump says states and cities should open up.

7:52 PM: Trump again warning Democrats will end the filibuster the first day they Chuck Schumer becomes majority leader. He now talks about the great justices he has appointed to the Supreme Court and the 300 judges he has appointed to the federal bench.

7:50 PM: Trump says the extreme left will pack the Supreme Court with “24 radical justices.” He says they want them to “revolve up and down the court system.” Trump says they want to “hurt the Supreme Court and they want to hurt it badly.”

7:45 PM: Trump says Democrats will open voters and give illegal immigrants free health care and welfare and allow them to vote so Republicans never win another election. He says they will also take down the wall, which Trump says he built despite…having Democrats oppose him. Trump says Democrats want sanctuary cities across the nation and release criminals and MS-13 gangsters. Trump says he has removed thousands out of the country.

Trump says Democrats will confiscate privately-owned firearms. He says they will also “cut up” the Second Amendment and will make D.C. a state. He says Democrats want six more senators and 40 House members from places you have never heard of. He says they will vote against Georgia and “cancel out your voice.”

7:42 PM: Trump rips “cryin’ Chuck Schumer” and says Democrats have been investigating him since he came down the escalator. Trump says if Democrats win Georgia, Democrats will take over farms and radical Democrats will abolish the Senate filibuster and ram through the most left-wing agenda while destroying our military through lack of funding. He says tell Senators to end Section 230. He says that’s the only thing Big Tech fears.

7:38 PM: Trump claims Georgia’s governor and secretary of state are afraid of Stacey Abrams. Trump now talking about getting to know a lot of legislators and having some in his “pocket” as he pulls out a list. Trump now asking for signature verification before name-checking more legislators.

7:37 PM: Trump says he won all over the place except in swing states. He claims the election was rigged and says we can’t let it happen to Loeffler, Perdue. Trump now claiming “hundreds of thousands” of illegal votes were cast and poll watchers were thrown out.

7:35 PM: Trump talks about receiving the highest percentage of non-white votes for a Republican since the 1960s. He talks about winning 18 of 19 bellwether counties. Trump wonders how Joe Biden got 80 million votes but only gets 1,000 people online to watch his Thanksgiving address.

7:31 PM: Trump says he got the most votes for a sitting U.S. president and insists he didn’t lose. He says they found a lot more ballots. Trump says he received most votes than any other incumbent in history and “we lost.”

7:27 PM: Trump says he is here to ensure that Loeffer, Perdue win the most important election runoff in American history.

Trump says you have to make sure Georgia’s governor “gets a lot tougher” and he says people have to make sure votes are counted and ballots aren’t thrown away.

He talks about the importance of Senate committees and Georgians will decide whether their children will grow up under socialism or freedom. He says Democrats want to go further than socialism and usher in a “communistic” type of system.

He says Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are the two most radical candidates. Trump says they rigged the presidential election and insists he is still going to win it. He says they are going to try and rig the runoff.

“We continue to fight,” Trump says. “We’ve had some great moments.”

7:25 PM: Melania introduces Trump. Crowd chants “four more years.” Trump claims he won Georgia and “lots of other places.” Trump talks about being five down in Florida and winning by “a lot.” Trump says this has to be the first time someone lost the election after winning Florida and Ohio before saying he’s still fighting. He talks about numbers coming out of “ceilings and leather bags” that makes you wonder what’s going on. He says he’s thrilled to be back in Georgia and wishes everyone “Merry Christmas.”

Trump sends along prayers to Loeffler’s staffer who passed away in a car accident yesterday.

He also expresses warmest wishes to people suffering from COVID before talking about the vaccine. He says even some of his “enemies” are calling it a “medical miracle.” He says his administration should “always get credit” for the vaccine.

7:20 PM: Melania Trump thanks the crowd for coming out to support Trump, and she says “we must keep our seats in the Senate.” She says it is more important than ever for Georgians to exercise their right to vote in the runoff.

7:15 PM: President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump get off Air Force One. Rally about to get started. “Defund Democracy” signs in the crowd.

7:05 PM: Loud cheers for Air Force One. Rally should be starting shortly.

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OPINION: “He says Voter ID laws need to be passed after the runoff along with citizen confirmation.

Yes, Americans agree with that statement from President Trump 1000%.

The President is teaching our Country to be proud and never allow anyone from the ‘inside’ or ‘outside’ of our country to destroy our great country for the sake of power over American freedom of democracy and speech.

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