Trump Campaign Officials Started Pressuring Georgia’s Secretary of State Long Before the Election | Talking Points Memo

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$7.9 million, in advance.

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Whoever fronted them the money for this better make sure it actually goes to Wisconsin and not to “retire campaign debt”. $7.9 million.

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Meanwhile, what the Tepubs didn’t notice is Stacy Abram’s work for last 10 years.

Now she’s working to secure two Dem Senate seats.

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The privates ones, too.

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When reached by phone, Kirkland directed the request for comment to the Trump campaign, which did not respond. The White House and the Georgia Republican Party also did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

How strange. They’re usually so eager to express their point of view.

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All of them, Katie.

Those blowouts in Florida and Texas didn’t come from nowhere.

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I guess when a political party can recruit a quality candidate… if not they have to go with the weasels that they have on the bench.

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True that. The fine print in the “retire the debt” fund would indicate that $4.74 million would go into Trump’s pocket if that were the case.

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Wait a minute, if Trump’s campaign has to pay for the recount that’s good? And by the way who does the campaign make the check out to?

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This all makes me extremely suspicious of the Jon Ossoff vote in GA. Anyone checking on that?

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@castor_troy. $7.9 million buys a lot of beer.

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I’ve been sayin…

I knew they weren’t going to let Texas go without cheating to keep it. Look at the criminals and sleezeballs running the state.

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He lied when he said he was a crook.

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Don’t forget the pretzels.

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Funny how social and regular media is getting plastered by ‘concerned above the fray’ people saying that the important thing though is that Democrats need to put this all behind us to heal the nation and let these GOP shenanigans just slide.

(as if that’s going to placate republicans in the first place and not just incentives them even more…)

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Truly. And Florida’s been knife-edge for 20 years, all of a sudden gets a significant red margin.

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I think there will be a loud and long outcry if they just let things go. It’s already started:

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People are saying Graham pays for what he wants. He is also serves as an example of terminology:

“Sexual preference is what Lindsey Graham wants his male prostitutes to do to him.
Sexual orientation is why he wants them to do it.”

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Partial recount in selected counties -in other words big cities where black people live.

UPDATE TO BREAKING: The @realDonaldTrump WI recount request will NOT be statewide - it will be a PARTIAL recount in several key counties. No word on WHICH counties yet.

— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) November 18, 2020
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When Lindsay advertises for help with “odd jobs around the house,” he really means odd.

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