Rep. Buddy Carter, other Republicans, decry chaos but still oppose routine presidential transfer of power.
The U.S. Congress on Wednesday was supposed to hold a pro-forma Constitutionally mandated procedure: formal recognition of the states’ electoral votes for president.
U.S. Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter, R-Pooler, and other Georgia lawmakers were among a third of the country’s elected Republicans who had announced they would oppose the final stage in the handover of presidential power. Their quixotic maneuver to support President Donald Trump had no legal bearing and had been denounced by national security officials and Fortune 500 business leaders as a threat to national security.
With most of Georgia's votes counted in the Jan. 5 runoffs that will decide control of the U.S. Senate, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are leading the Republican incumbents above the .5% margin for a recount, according to unofficial election results.
Polls are officially closed in almost every corner of the state, the deadline for absentee ballots to be received has passed and now there’s just the wait for the final results to be tallied.
"What we what we witnessed, no matter what one could say about the criminality of it or the potential criminality of it, is that the president's browbeating of secretary of state is undermining the rule of law and it's an attack on democracy," GSU professor Anthony Kreis said. "And frankly, you know, it is shocking."
On this episode of Battleground: Ballot Box, we were going to ask Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger about challenges faced during 2020, but then we got audio of President Donald Trump angrily asking him to overturn the election instead.
Monday on Political Rewind: In an alarming hourlong phone call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, President Donald Trump cajoled, begged and threatened Raffensperger to find the votes to win him Georgia. Raffensperger pushed back on the president’s false claims and declined to meet with the president’s allies in person.
In another chapter of drama unfolding in the final week of Georgia’s Senate runoff elections, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger called out Sen. David Perdue on Fox News for demanding his resignation, which he said led to death threats towards his family.
If Democrats pick up both seats in Tuesday's Georgia runoff elections, they will wrest control of the U.S. Senate from Republicans. If Republicans win one, though, they will retain it.
An angry President Trump urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the election in the state, according to a call obtained by Georgia Public Broadcasting.
