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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,766 posts)
Fri Mar 19, 2021, 08:50 PM Mar 2021

Biden: Georgia officials 'helped save our democracy' by standing up to 2020 pressure

President Biden on Friday credited Georgia officials with helping to "save our democracy" by standing up to pressure from former President Trump and his allies over the 2020 election.

Biden delivered remarks in Atlanta condemning violence and discrimination against the Asian American community after eight people, six of whom were Asian, were shot and killed there Tuesday evening. But he used the second half of his speech to credit Georgia with both securing his victory and delivering Democrats the majority in the Senate.

The president took a thinly veiled swipe at his predecessor, who spent weeks challenging Georgia's election results, making unproven claims of fraud and pressuring state officials to overturn the result.

"The people of Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry. And there's nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you've recalculated," Trump said in a January phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-georgia-officials-helped-save-our-democracy-by-standing-up-to-2020-pressure/ar-BB1eLRUH?li=BB141NW3

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Biden: Georgia officials 'helped save our democracy' by standing up to 2020 pressure (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2021 OP
The question I keep asking is whether there were officials in other states ecstatic Mar 2021 #1
Consider this PJMcK Mar 2021 #3
Florida worked. North Carolina worked. Laelth Mar 2021 #4
Thank you for pointing that Cha Mar 2021 #2

ecstatic

(32,653 posts)
1. The question I keep asking is whether there were officials in other states
Fri Mar 19, 2021, 08:55 PM
Mar 2021

who folded to "2020 pressure" from lyin' lindsey and dump?

PJMcK

(21,998 posts)
3. Consider this
Fri Mar 19, 2021, 09:00 PM
Mar 2021

No state changed their vote totals after they were counted and certified.

I have no doubt that Trump tried everything he and his crew could think of but none of it worked.

Trump probably thought that Georgia was his best chance to change the vote total. It had a Republican-dominated state government and if Trump could flip one state, then he could challenge the results in other pivotal states.

Thankfully, there are some people who still understand the Constitution and American values who withstood Trump's corruption.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
4. Florida worked. North Carolina worked.
Fri Mar 19, 2021, 09:23 PM
Mar 2021

I don’t trust the results out of either of those states. Trump cheated. That’s why he was so sure he would win. He just didn’t cheat enough, and he definitely wasn’t counting on a fair election in Georgia.

So, here we are.

-Laelth

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