For cryin' out loud, you two, the last thing either of you ought to be doing facing runoffs in January is projecting the tone of the yay-hoo Trumpist crowd.
Do you understand that this is not just about your personal political careers? Republican control of the Senate is going to be the only bulwark the country is going to have against the imposition of a hard-left vision.
Your call to Georgia attorney general Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, is about as boneheaded a move as you could make. He comes off looking like the clear-eyed adult and you come off looking like Kurt Schlichter clones:
In Georgia, a new level of intraparty hostility burst into view between Republicans who have questioned the election's integrity and those who have publicly defended it.
Trump allies seized on the news that a small number of ballots had not been rescanned over the weekend in Fulton County, home of Atlanta. The news prompted a story from the conservative website Breitbart News - and a tweet from the president - suggesting that the additional ballots might alter the outcome. Critics also falsely accused Fulton County election officials of not allowing Republicans to watch the process.
In fact, only 342 ballots were affected, and the county invited members of both political parties to Atlanta's State Farm Arena, the elections headquarters, to observe. Raffensperger, the secretary of state, also attended.
A Raffensperger adviser also rejected broader claims of voter fraud.
Gabriel Sterling, the voting system implementation manager at the Georgia secretary of state's office, said claims of widespread illegal activity were false, declaring Election Day "an amazing success" and chastising those "trying to undermine the system that was put together" by state and county officials.
Later in the day, Georgia's two Republican senators, both headed to runoff elections Jan. 5, demanded that Raffensperger resign.
"There have been too many failures in Georgia elections this year and the most recent election has shined a national light on the problems," Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue said in the statement, which did not list a single example of a problem. "The Secretary of State has failed to deliver honest and transparent elections."
In a fiery response, Raffensperger said he would not step down and defended the election process as orderly and transparent.
"I know emotions are running high," Raffensperger said. "Politics are involved in everything right now. If I was Senator Perdue, I'd be irritated I was in a runoff. And both Senators and I are all unhappy with the potential outcome for our President."
Biden's 11,595-vote lead in Georgia means the race is eligible for a recount, but Raffensperger emphasized that it was unlikely to change the outcome of the election.
It likewise makes it easy for your opponents to come off like the level-headed ones in this:
“This just demonstrates the total lack of competence, coherence, and momentum among GOP politicians in Georgia right now,” says Jon Ossoff. “They felt entitled to a cake walk, and instead they’re getting the fights of their lives. They’re not liking it, and they’re taking out their rage on one another.”
Think strategically, you knuckleheads. Disassociate yourselves from the stop-the-steal crowd. Talk about conservative solutions to Georgia issues.
You have about seven weeks to make the most compelling cases of your lives. History will not look kindly on you if you squander it.
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