Donald Trump's attorney Lin Wood asks Georgia Republicans to 'withhold votes' if GOP senate candidates don't back the president's attempts to overturn the election
Why Georgia runoff elections are important
Perdue and Loeffler have so far remained silent on the issue of voter fraud which Trump and his aides have not succeeded in establishing. The GOP duo has instead focused more on their January 5 elections. The balance of the Senate will be decided by the outcomes of the Georgia elections. Till now, the Republicans have clinched 50 seats while the Democrats and their associates have bagged 48 (46 plus two). If the Blue party bags both the seats from Georgia, it will come down to a 50-50 tie but the Dems will be effectively in control of the chamber since Biden is poised to win the White House and Democratic Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will have the power to cast votes to break the stalemate. The Republicans currently have a 53-47 lead in the Senate and will be keenly hoping the Georgia seats go to it to maintain the majority, even if slender.
Both Loeffler and Perdue are in extremely tight contests with neither able to bag more than 50 percent of the votes in the election held earlier this month. Georgia requires the winner to get at least 50 percent of the voters to emerge the winner.
In the case of Loeffler who contested in the special election, her
Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock won nearly 33 percent of the votes
in the November election while the former trailed him with 26 percent.
Perdue, on the other hand, got 49.8 percent of the votes while his
opponent Jon Ossoff got 47.9 percent.
Wood has also filed a
suit against Raffensperger and called into question some of his actions
that he believed undermined the integrity of the recently held election.
While the former argued that Georgia’s election should not be certified
and a hand recount should be held, the latter refused to entertain the
emergency motion. He also alleged recently that his fellow Republicans were putting pressure on him to find ways to exclude ballots.
2 comments:
Lin Wood's bank account and that of his clients dispute your claim of idiocy. Let's see, CNN and WA-PO paid him millions this year. Idiots don't win cases like that but they do sue for slander.
I don't give a rat's ass about how successful Wood has been. What he is suggesting for the Georgia run-off election is as idiotic as it can get.
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