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"LET'S VOTE HER OUT," SAYS WARNOCK AFTER LOEFFLER VOWS ON EVE OF
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Jake Johnson
January 5, 2021
Common Dreams
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_ "Let's show her that Georgia voters will not be silenced or
ignored." _

Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) speaks as she is flanked by lame-duck
President Donald Trump during the Victory Rally by the Republican
National Committee in Dalton, Georgia, United States on January 4,
2021. , Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

 

At a campaign rally with lame-duck President Donald Trump just hours
before Georgians were set to head to the polls for the pivotal U.S.
Senate runoffs, incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler vowed late
Monday to object when Congress meets this week to certify
President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory, joining a
last-ditch mass disenfranchisement effort
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by the GOP that is doomed to fail.

While the Dalton, Georgia rally was intended to boost Republican
enthusiasm for the Tuesday runoffs, Trump and Loeffler spent much of
their time on stage railing against the integrity of the November
presidential election, with the outgoing president rehashing his
now-familiar and false claims of widespread voter fraud and defending
his possibly criminal
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call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

"Everyone liked my phone call," the outgoing president said.

Trump didn't mention
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pandemic during his 90-minute speech, which came as the U.S. reported
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2,800 new coronavirus-related hospitalizations Monday, bringing the
total number of people currently hospitalized to a record 128,000.

Loeffler, for her part, opened her brief remarks with an announcement
that was met with enthusiastic applause: "On January 6th, I will
object to the Electoral College vote. That's right, that's right.
Thank you. We're gonna get this done!"

Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock, Loeffler's opponent,
immediately seized upon the appointed
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Georgia Republican's vow as further proof of her disregard for the
will of the state's voters, who chose Biden by a narrow margin in
November.

"Unelected Senator Kelly Loeffler wants to undermine your vote and
overturn Georgia's election," Warnock tweeted
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Monday. "Let's show her that Georgia voters will not be silenced or
ignored. Tomorrow, let's vote her out."

Because his Senate term ended on January 3 with the beginning of the
new Congress, David Perdue—who is facing off against Democrat Jon
Ossoff on Tuesday—will not be able to vote for or against the
certification of Biden's decisive victory when Congress meets
Wednesday.

But during a recorded video speech played at Monday's rally in Dalton,
Perdue joined Loeffler in attacking the November election results. "If
you're as mad as I am about November, then rise up with us and fight,"
said Perdue, who is quarantining after being exposed to the
coronavirus last week. "Fight by doing the only thing you can do right
now, and that is to vote tomorrow."

"If we don't all get out and vote tomorrow," Perdue added, "everything
President Trump has done to make America great again is gone."

As _The Nation_'s John Nichols noted in a column
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last month, both Loeffler and Perdue "endorsed a bizarre legal scheme
by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
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to overturn the results from four battleground states that played a
pivotal role in deciding the 2020 election for President-elect Joe
Biden: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, _and_ Georgia." The Texas
lawsuit was ultimately rejected
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by the U.S. Supreme Court.

"That's right," Nichols wrote, "Loeffler, an appointed senator seeking
to win a January 5 special-election runoff, and Perdue, an incumbent
seeking to win a second term in a regular runoff on the same day,
proposed to disenfranchise their constituents, all five million
Georgians who voted for a presidential candidate in the November 3
election—the 2,475,141 who backed Biden and 2,462,857 who backed
Trump, the roughly 62,000 who voted for Libertarian Jo Jorgensen and
everyone who cast a write-in ballot for the Greens or another party or
Mickey Mouse."

"Unfortunately," Nichols added, "courtroom failures have not dimmed
Loeffler and Perdue's determination to diminish, dismantle, and, if
necessary, overturn democracy."

A record-shattering three million Georgians cast their ballots before
early voting for the two runoffs ended last week, turnout
that—according to
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the _Atlanta Journal-Constitution_—appeared to favor the Democratic
candidates. If Democrats win both runoff contests, the party will
effectively take control of the Senate, stripping Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) of much of his power to stonewall
much-needed coronavirus relief
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"We can pass $2,000 relief checks for the people, but we have to win
this Senate election," Ossoff tweeted
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echoing a message Biden delivered
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during an Atlanta rally earlier in the day.

"If you send Sens. Perdue and Loeffler back to Washington, those
checks will never get there. It's just that simple," said the
president-elect. "The power is literally in your hands."

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