ATLANTA – President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of last month’s election in Georgia have dominated much of the talk surrounding early next month’s Senate election, with Democrats largely pointing to those efforts as a CDO.
The president’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, told state legislators during a visit to the state capital on Thursday that Democratic Senate candidate John Osoff was telling supporters he no longer needed to use what the president was doing. . “It’s time to wait and see what Democrats can achieve with all three branches of government,” he said.
We said about Sophie Trump, now we don’t have to think about it. “We don’t need to talk about it anymore.”
Instead of choosing to focus on issues such as health care and Covid-19 relief, Democratic campaigns are not new to talking around the president for campaigning. But unlike Trump-centric matters such as former Special Adviser Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation or the president’s impeachment, Trump’s continued fight over election results is highly sensitive to Georgia. And his efforts to sway voters in Democratic-leaning areas are trying to sway voters – many of them black voters – whose two Democratic candidates, Osof and Rafael Warnock, are working to run for re-election in January.
Asked about Trump’s efforts to undermine the outcome of the election after Thursday’s campaign, Osof said he sees the effort as “an open attack on the voting rights of black Americans in Georgia.”
“Look, Republicans may not succeed around this time, but they are clearly supporting attacks on our democracy in the coming years, and that’s clearly very worrying,” an OCOF campaign spokesman told NBC News. “We’re not laughing at this. “But our campaign’s focus is on getting those who voted for Biden out.”
During a virtual rally the next day with 2018 Awakening candidate Stacey Abrams, the voting rights activist was credited as the key player to flip the Georgia Blue for the first time in decades, and former President Barack Obama, Democrats v. Democrats. The Republican-controlled Senate would mean for the administration of President-elect Biden.
“If anyone is listening right now, you need to understand that this is not just about Georgia,” Obama said. “This is about America and this is about the world. And it’s within your power, in fact, to have an impact.”
The idea was after Trump’s efforts to fight last month’s results.
In discussions on Sunday night, Osof and Vernon did not mention Trump’s ongoing campaign to change the outcome. Instead, Democratic candidates and allies have zeroed in on Republican Sense In the stock-trading controversies of David Perdue and Kelly Loffler, they said they preferred personal gain over their constituents during the epidemic.
Perdue, R-Ga. And Loffler, R-Ga., Both defended their actions, both repeatedly pointing to being cleared of wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, Trump’s efforts have dwindled, both nationally and in Georgia, where recent campaign efforts have called for the entire election to be disqualified and forcing Republican Gov. Brian Camp to call a special session of legislature to appoint pro-Trump elected officials. And order a signature audit of absentee ballots, which Kemp said he has no right to do.
On Sunday, Camp and Lieutenant Gov. Geoff Duncan said “there is no option allowed under state or federal law,” adding that “the judicial system is the only practical – and quick – option – in raising the results in dispute.”
For Republicans, Trump’s crusade has played a central role in the campaign so far, with Loffler and Perdue refusing to accept the limited results of how far they can go to promote themselves as the last line of defense against the Democratic agenda.
Loffler said during a discussion with Warner Bros. on Sunday that whether the significance of his election is an acknowledgment that Trump has lost.
When the president visited Georgia on Saturday, he pushed for a call from some allies who said Republicans should stay home next month in protest of last month’s election. But he still made baseless allegations that the election was rigged and that there could be a January election. And he continued to target Camp and Secretary of State Brad Rafenspગરger, but also Republicans.
“So don’t listen to my friends, just go out, just go out. And you know what they’re saying, they say, we want you to fix the system.” “We are going to fix the system. But when these people come in, the system will be fixed. They will log in and we will fix the system.”
The crowd at Saturday’s rally was tightly organized from the president’s point of view, chanting “Stop theft” and “Four more years.” When Parde took his turn to speak, the crowd drowned him with the slogan “Trump’s fight.”
Voters also faced Republicans in campaign programs in recent weeks about what they are doing to speed up Trump’s efforts.
“I don’t know if you all saw this rally yesterday, but David Perdu drowned and was just shouted off stage by supporters of the president in Valdosta,” Osof told reporters on Sunday. “This was supposed to be a rally. For Senator Perdue.”
Republicans in the state have expressed concern over whether continuing to focus on the election result will reduce turnout for the next one. Some Republicans just want to move on.
“This is a key issue for us as Republicans, right?” Duncan in an interview with NBC News. “This is a very important point.
“I think there are some lessons to be learned here as Republicans, and we should look into this,” he added. “We can’t get so emotionally wrapped up in the results that we lose the focus of learning from this.”
However, the G.O.P. on both sides of this division. Voters expressed an understanding of what’s in line next month. If Vernonck and Sussoff win, Democrats will control the Senate in split 0/50, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris serving as a tie-breaking vote. Whether Loffler or Perdue wins, Republicans will retain control.
And when the ongoing battle last month G.O.P. Can hurt the vote, happy with the big risk Democrats face after Biden’s election.
“And the frustrations I had during my presidency were often, people or even my supporters, saying, ‘Well, you know, now we’ve met with Barack,'” he said. “And Michelle, she’s the first woman. She looks so beautiful. She’s doing a great job and now we have faith in her and so we don’t have to do anything.”
Georgia G.O.P. No. Strategist Jay Williams told NBC News that the high stakes of the election would “override” any stay-home energy encouraged on the right.
Divided evenly with the state, any defect can make a significant difference in the result.
“I don’t know if all of this is a big motivator on Dimes’ side to make sure they have complete control over everything, ”he said. “I think they’re like some people will be like, ‘We got rid of Trump, and that’s what we wanted to do, and we’ll stay home.’
