Election Denier Vernon Jones Fails in Bid to Become Georgia's Secretary of State

Originally published at: Election Denier Vernon Jones Fails in Bid to Become Georgia’s Secretary of State

As Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger (R) famously fought to protect the 2020 presidential election from Trump’s attempt to steal it. The events of December 2020 and January 2021, when Trump demanded the state “find” the votes he needed to win, prompted a host of Trump-aligned conspiracy theorists to attempt to seek Raffensperger’s office…

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Jones, who calls himself the “Black Donald Trump,

It’s a wonder he’s never tried to strangle himself, a la Dr. Strangelove.

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Copy editor PLEASE! He toed the line, he didn’t tow it, like a broken down vehicle.

For goodness sake, at least run your story through Grammarly. Yes, I know it’s AI, but I would hope it would catch something like this

No one will know the difference if you say it out loud, but tow the line is wrong. Tow means to drag or pull. While you can theoretically pull a line of rope or cord, doing so doesn’t really capture the sense of this expression, which is fundamentally about alignment: either with a starting point or boundary, or with a standard or norm. Tow the line is a common mistake

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I wonder if he hates himself.

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Nah, just a scum bag traitor to his race like Uncle Clarence.

The common thread that binds Vernon Jones to Donald Trump (as with so many others orbiting around Trumpland) is that they’re both rapists.

https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/vernon-jones-2005-rape-allegation-public-records-evidence-eef0b9

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