POLITICO: “Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue of Georgia called on the state’s GOP secretary of state to resign … citing ‘failures’ in the election process but not providing any specific evidence to support their claims.”
Both facing runoff elections, these GOP senators were so terrified of losing their seats -- and being responsible for their party’s loss of the Senate -- that they turned on one of their own last month.
And they SHOULD be scared -- millions of Georgians already cast their ballots against these two on November 3 thanks to years of grassroots organizing from Stacey Abrams and others in Georgia. And both Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are formidable, progressive candidates who will turn those same voters out (and then some) on January 5. Once they win, Mitch McConnell will no longer have majority control of the Senate, ending his ability to unilaterally kill progressive bills.
But this desperation must also serve as a warning. The GOP in Georgia is notorious for their dirty voter suppression tricks -- frequently ranking worst in the nation -- and when those measures failed, they resorted to trying to dispose of one Republican in favor of another who would wield their power as Georgia’s Secretary of State to hand them victory.
Permitting Sen. Loeffler and Sen. Perdue to fire someone who wasn't willing to do their evil doings wouldn’t just have been disastrous for our democracy -- it would have ensured that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic House would be blocked from passing any kind of meaningful legislation. We cannot allow them to attempt any more attacks against our democracy in the days leading up to their election.
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