Telling boisterous crowd at A campaign rally in Dalton, Georgia for Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, 74-year-old President said the Georgia was the last firewall to socialism, essentially admitting that his bid to reverse the Nov. 3 election comes to an end Jan. 6 in a joint session of Congress. While looking to 61-year-old Vice President Mike Pence to save the day, Trump knows that Pence has only a ceremonial role to notify Congress about the outcome of the Electoral College tally. As it stands today, President-elect Joe Biden has 306 votes to Trump 232, a decisive win since Biden only needed 270 to win the 2020 presidential election. Republicans, led by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) plan to object to the results but, at the end of the day, he doesn’t have the GOP votes to stop Biden’s inevitable victory. Trump played with the bubbly crowd last night giving them false hopes about Jan. 6.
Pence has played along with the madness surrounding of Trump’s protests over what he calls “massive voter fraud,” something he wasn’t able to prove in any federal court around the country. Democrats and their friends in the media want you to believe the protesting the Nov. 3 vote is “un-Americans, anti-Democratic and anti-Conservative,” according to 50-year-old former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), whose sentiments were echoed by Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Ut.), a favorites of Democrats for his anti-Trump rhetoric. Romney has nothing good to say about Trump or his protests about he Nov. 3 election. “I hope Mike Pence comes trough for us. I have to tell you. I hope that our great Vice President, comes through for us. He’s a great guy,” Trump said, pretending that Pence has any authority to reverse a national election, something he clearly won’t do when Congress meets tomorrow.
About 100 GOP House members and 13 GOP Senators will object to the Electoral College results, making their case in a joint session of Congress why they should not certify the Electoral College votes for Biden. Overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate accept the outcome that Biden won the election. Trump and his legal team could not prove to any federal court’s satisfaction, including the Supreme Court, that widespread election fraud tainted the No. 3 vote. “Of course, if he doesn’t come through, I won’t like him quite as much. No, Mike is a great guy,” Trump said tongue-in-cheek. Whether known in Democrat circles or not, tomorrow’s dog-and-pony show won’t change the inevitable outcome that Biden will be the next president. Even Loeffler, who could lose her race today, said she plans to voice her opposition to the Electoral College vote tomorrow in Congress.
Loeffler’s Senate colleague, David Perdue, has been missing from the campaign due to his quarantine from Covid-19. Perdue doesn’t plan to attend the joint session tomorrow when Congress meets to tally the Electoral College results. Trump told the Georgia crowd last night that he won Georgia by a big margin, even though the final tally had Biden up by 12,000 votes. “Maybe I’ll do it again sometime, or may I won’t and get back to life. But when you win in a landslide and the steal it and it’s rigged, that not acceptable,’ Trump told the crowd. Trump urged the audience to go out and vote tomorrow for Loeffler and Perdue, or watch the country fall by the wayside. “If these two don’t win and we don’t take the presidency, you have country that would b e run by Schumer, Pelosi and Biden,” Trump told the crowd, close to admitting that the election is no longer about him.
Trump denied reports by the Washington Post, citing a leaked telephone call, that he tried to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find 11.780 votes so he could win the Georgia vote. Raffensperger, himself, denied that Trump ever tried to pressure him to change any votes. Former 76-year-old Washington Post Journalist of Watergate fame Carl Bernstein called Trump’s call with Raffensperger, “the ultimate smoking gun.” Bernstein, and his 78-year-old former Washington Post partner Bob Woodward, have become Democrat political hacks, often appearing as pundits on anti-Trump CNN or MSNBC. Campaigning in Georgia yesterday for Senate candidates Warnock and Ossoff, Biden was more crass. “By electing Jon and the reverend, you can make an immediate difference in your own lives . . . telling voters that they’ll get a $2,000 stimulus check.
Trump all but conceded defeat last night in Georgia, urging his backers to go to the polls to prevent the Democrat takeover of the Senate. “It could be your last chance to save the American we love,” Trump, the White House and Senate were on the line. Judging by pre-election polls, both Senate races are toss-up, with momentum going in Democrats’ favor. When you’re told to vote Democrat for a $2,000 check, what’s left to Trump to say? Whether admitted to or not, Trump looks like he’s had the air let out of him, lacking to same bountiful energy he one had on the campaign trail. Admitting that tomorrow’s election is about the Senate, Trump knows that Pence cannot rescue him Jan. 6 in the joint session of Congress. Pence can only preside over the GOP’s dog-and-pony show before the inevitable Electoral College vote tally that hands the next four years to who Trump calls “Sleepy Joe.”
