Raffensperger, Who Wouldn’t Steal Election For Trump, Loses Governor Race to Two Election Denialists

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Originally published at: Raffensperger, Who Wouldn’t Steal Election For Trump, Loses Governor Race to Two Election Denialists - TPM – Talking Points Memo

In 2020, Georgia stood out: a red state in which top officials bucked President Trump’s demand to overturn his election loss.  Tuesday’s GOP primaries suggested Georgia’s relative independence from Trump’s reactionary movement may be coming to an end. Election deniers went one and two in the GOP primary for governor, ending the gubernatorial bid for…

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So this really looks like we have at least one purple state where the state government will go to the wall to fix the election for the GOP.

Will November be too late to rescue the Republic?

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Governor race. He was a long shot as it was. In the dumpy cult it’s a requisite. Dems can win this race. What do you think about Bottoms’s chances? I’m in tune to NJ politics but not GA’s.

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I am not surprised that Trump is winning all the Republican primaries. God knows Trump has run off all the principled Republicans like Raffensperger and Massie. .

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And Gabe Sterling, who is Raffensperger’s reasonably competent second in command, got curbstomped in the race to replace Raffensperger as SOS. The GOP is a cult–which we all knew, but which becomes clearer (and more frightening) every day.

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Raffensperger just found out doing the right thing holds no water for the MAGA GOP.

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So instead of laboratories for democracy states can be laboratories against it. It would appear our experiment with national political parties has reached its nadir; taking one over gives a monster a lot of leverage.

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In my opinion, Raffensperger and Kemp did the right thing primarily because kowtowing to Trump would leave them legally exposed. There simply wasn’t a pathway that allowed them to do Trump’s bidding without putting themselves in serious jeopardy. They only look good in comparison to other Republican politicians–and that’s saying damn little.

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Dixie: “Been there, done that.”

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