Does Stacey Abrams know something we don’t?
The Democrat community organizer and failed 2018 gubernatorial candidate expressed confidence that her party will win both U.S. Senate seats in the upcoming January runoff election in her state of Georgia.
The two races see Republican incumbent Senators David Perdue (R-Ga.) and Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) competing against Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, respectively.
On CNN’s State of the Union, anchor Jake Tapper said, “Democrats have won just one of the eight statewide runoff elections held in Georgia since 1988. Some Republicans are worried that President Trump’s continued baseless claims of a rigged election might discourage their voters from showing up this time. Do you think that is real or Democratic wishful thinking?”
Abrams responded:
Democrats are prepared to win this election. This is the first runoff where we have the level of investment and engagement that it takes to win a runoff. We know from the numbers we are in a good place. 1.2 million absentee ballots have been requested thus far, and just to put that into context, 1.3 million were requested for all of the general election. Of that 1.2 million, 85,000 of those applications are from voters who did not vote in the general election and disproportionately between 18 and 29 and disproportionately people of color. That signals that we understand that we may need to make a plan to vote and deliver this election.
The anti-”voter suppression” activist added: “What Donald Trump is doing, the disinformation is deeply problematic. I don’t know if he is going to help or harm his team. But we know that on our side of the conversation, we are pushing for leaders who will actually do the work of delivering COVID relief to Georgia.”
Abrams has earned praise from Democrats since the election for her work in “voter registration” and “getting out the vote,” in part through a group known as The New Georgia Project— which was founded by Abrams and previously chaired by Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock. The New Georgia Project is currently being investigated by the Georgia secretary of state for seeking to “aggressively” register “ineligible, out-of-state, or deceased voters” before the January 5 runoff elections.
Abrams also belongs to several globalist insider organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg group.
According to the official tally, Joe Biden leads President Trump by less than 12,000 votes in Georgia. The New American has extensively covered the evidence of voter fraud in the Peach State and elsewhere that the Trump team claims was responsible for turning a Trump victory into a Biden win.
While Democrats claim victory after the Electoral College on Monday pushed Biden over the 270 threshold, the results have yet to be certified, and maneuverings by Republican lawmakers in states Biden “won” offer a glimmer of hope. There are now dual sets of electors for Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. These Republican electors cast their votes for President Trump in case his legal challenges succeed.
“We took this procedural vote to preserve any legal claims that may be presented going forward,” Trump campaign Pennsylvania chair Bernie Comfort said in a statement. “This was in no way an effort to usurp or contest the will of the Pennsylvania voters.”
The Pennsylvania Republican party said they drew inspiration from the 1960 election, during which Democrats challenged President Richard Nixon’s victory in Hawaii. Democratic electors submitted a conditional vote for John F. Kennedy. After a recount, Kennedy was declared the winner of the state.
Once the electors complete their constitutionally designated role, states send their “Certificates of the Vote,” signed by the electors of each state, to the president of the Senate (the vice president of the United States), the secretary of state, the archivist of the United States, and the federal district court with jurisdiction over where each set of electors convened. It is then up to Congress to certify the results in a joint session.
The deck appears stacked against the president, but could there, in fact, be substance to his and his allies’ assurances that he will prevail?
On Saturday, Lt. General Michael Flynn told a crowd: “When people ask me … on a scale of 1 to 10, who’s going to be the next president of the United States? I say: 10, Donald J. Trump … without hesitation.”
