His tirade against the popular governor and secretary of state was highly unwise. Maga is not a majority in Georgia
  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    58·
    5 months ago

    Pointless fight? Did we already forget the Raffensperger call? Trump’s still pissed he couldn’t find a few thousand more votes. Then Kemp is one of the few Republicans that won their reelection without kissing the ring.

    Edit- and this little detail.

    Trump in a November 2020 Fox News interview said he was “ashamed” of having supported Kemp and that Kemp had “done absolutely nothing” to challenge the result of the 2020 election in Georgia.

    It’s not pointless, it’s personal for trump.

  • paf0@lemmy.world
    361·
    5 months ago

    I’m starting to think he wants to lose. This concerns me more than him winning, he could be planning January 6th on a larger scale .

    • demizerone@lemmy.world
      211·
      5 months ago

      Probably more likely he was “winning” against Biden for months and had no plan for if he dropped out. Now he’s flailing. He could very well end the Republican party as is it currently. Hopefully they return to not being freaks.

      • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        5 months ago

        Hopefully they return to not being freaks.

        As long as we’re hoping, why not hope they fracture permanently into two or three parties that hate each other too much to ever work together and never have enough votes alone to ever win another seat anywhere.

      • Funderpants
        4·
        5 months ago

        Sorry, no rose colour glasses here, they’ve always been freaks, racist, misogynist, xenophobic, petty. Have a listen to Slow Burn The Nixon season to see how little they’ve changed.

      • paf0@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 months ago

        Predicable Republican Fuckery for 2028! I miss when the Monopoly man hung out with the Jesus freaks. They should make a sequel.

    • n1ckn4m3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      5 months ago

      He doesn’t intend to win this election by votes and his plan doesn’t need votes in the future.

      Johnson will refuse to certify the results of the election that put Democrats in the House, claiming some kind of bullshit irregularities with no proof, leaving the House controlled by the Republicans. They’ll then claim irregularities in the presidential election and force a contingent election where they have a 100% chance of electing Trump no matter what the public votes. The worse that Dipshit Don loses, the stronger his argument about the vote being stolen will be, and the more his ravenous shitheel base will eat it up.

      More people need to be made aware that this is 100% legal for them to do, and more people need to be aware that it is almost certainly what they will try. The only thing that can possibly stop it is significant awareness by the mass population of Americans and significant publicity (similar to how mass awareness of Project 2025 turned it into a poison pill).

      EDIT: Oh look, they’ve already started making it super-legal in battleground states: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/06/georgia-local-election-boards-allowed-withhold-vote-certification

      • paf0@lemmy.world
        5·
        5 months ago

        Time will tell. I didn’t have faith in McConnell or Pence to protect our institutions on January 6th but they did the right thing in the end.

        • n1ckn4m3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          5 months ago

          There is nothing in this world I would love more than to be wrong about this, that’s for sure.

      • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        If they do that I hope we rise up and revolt. Are we really going sit back and have fascism literally steal the election? Biden going just roll over with this?

  • Em Adespoton
    21·
    5 months ago

    Trump attacked Governor Brian Kemp, who is substantially more popular in Georgia than he is. Early in his comments, Trump pointed to a few recent high-profile murders in Atlanta, saying: “Atlanta is like a killing field, and your governor should get off his ass and do something about it.”

    Trump was just warming up. In between praising three Republicans on the election board who are supposed to be neutral arbiters of election practices, and repeating a bizarre, false and previously debunked claim that Al Capone faced fewer indictments than he did, Trump went on an 11-minute tirade about Kemp and the secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, with a side jab at the attorney general, Chris Carr, for spite. None of them attended the rally.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Trump pointed to a few recent high-profile murders in Atlanta, saying: “Atlanta is like a killing field, and your governor should get off his ass and do something about it.”

      LOL. LMAO, even.

      — an Atlantan

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      They could stay home altogether if they are not enthusiastic about either guy, or vote for the brain worm guy instead. I think those Braves fans would share RFK Jr.'s opinion about the Cubs.