Donald Trump has boasted about the ability of Make America Great Again supporters to take control of the Georgia Board of Elections, as part of his team's efforts to corrupt future elections.
“I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the Georgia Board of Elections is in a very positive position,” Trump said Saturday night at a rally in Atlanta. “They’re doing a great job, they’re doing a great job.”
The former president went on to call out the three MAGA Republicans currently on the five-member council — Dr. Janice Johnston, Rick Jeffares, and Janelle King — “bullfighting for honesty, transparency, and victory.”
According to the state Board of Elections website, their mission is not to fight for Trump’s “victory.” The board is “charged with a variety of responsibilities and powers to protect the right of all Georgians to vote.”
At the rally, Trump also promoted his big lie about election fraud, claiming, “I won this state twice in my opinion.”
like rolling stone As previously reported, the Trump team is behind efforts to undermine voter integrity in Georgia, and Trump notably pushed state lawmakers to remove a Republican from the state Board of Elections who was not sufficiently committed to the “Make America Great Again” slogan. The official resigned and was replaced by King.
Trump allies in the state have also been working to purge voter rolls and put in place policies that make it easier to challenge election results, a source close to Trump said. rolling stone “Georgia is our laboratory”
“If you can get this done in Georgia, you'll have a roadmap for other states, and perhaps the country as a whole,” the source continued.
Trump on Saturday hailed a rule requiring hand counts to verify the total number of votes counted by machines, which has yet to be finalized and is now up for public comment.
“[The State Election Board] “We just passed a rule for Georgia elections that requires three people in each precinct to independently count the total number of ballots cast before they are certified,” Trump said Saturday. “Who would oppose that?”
Sarah Tyndall-Ghazal, the only Democrat appointed to the state Board of Elections, opposed the rule. “The reason this rule is not enforced is because when it was tested in 2019, it failed,” she said. “Other counties have tried and failed. I don’t want to set our counties up for failure.”
Trump also criticized Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, calling him “a bad man, a traitor and a very average governor — Governor Little Brian.” Kemp, along with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, refused Trump’s demand that they “find 11,780 votes” for him after he lost the state in 2020. In other words, they illegally blocked Trump’s demands to overturn a free and fair election — something the former president clearly never forgave them for.
“Your Governor Kemp and Raffensperger are doing everything they can to make 2024 difficult for Republicans,” Trump complained.
Trump also called Kemp “very bad for the Republican Party” because he “wouldn’t do anything” to create a special legislative session to “review” the results of the 2020 election. “We want to review the election. We want to look at it because there’s so many things,” Trump said, blaming Kemp for refusing to sign Trump-backed legislation that would examine the 2020 votes.
“The governor didn’t sign the bill, and I knew he would because I helped get him elected,” Trump said. “I sent a young man to his office… The young man came back and said, ‘Sir, he’s not going to sign the bill.’… And then I said, ‘Come back here and tell him it’s for me.’ It’s a good thing, not a bad thing. They want to investigate possible voter fraud.”
Kemp has not signed the legislation, so Trump and his allies in the state plan to try to force Kemp and Raffensperger to run in 2024.
Regardless of the outcome of the election in Georgia, Trump's allies are preparing to claim fraud in the election, rolling stone Trump’s work in the state could provide him with an advantage, especially if the election results are particularly close. The latest Georgia polls show Trump and Harris tied or separated by just a point or two.
Trump is not just focusing his efforts on Georgia. According to media reports, nearly 70 pro-Trump election officials have been appointed in key counties across the country. rolling stone And American destruction.
“I think we’re going to see a mass refusal to certify the election” in November, said Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias. rolling stone “All we see in this election is that the other side has become more organized, more ruthless, and more prepared.”
