Why they chose Georgia?

[kentuck]

It was mostly the decision of Trump and Giuliani, in my opinion. Georgia was the most "Republican" of all the contested states, with a Republican Governor, Secretary of State, and State House.

Although Georgia, or no one state, would give Trump the votes he needed to win the electoral votes for the presidency, it would cast doubt on the other states in question, or so they hoped.

They believed Georgia would be the catalyst to challenging the votes in the other states and moving their legislators to act in their behalf.

It was a conspiracy from the beginning. Few, if any, of the conspirators actually believed that Trump won the election, but they were willing to go along with the crazy, illegal scheme.

Now, it has come almost full circle.

All that is left is the trial and the verdict.

[Johnny2X2X]

1. They tried the same stuff elsewhere

Michigan , Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania all had similar plots.

In Michigan they also illegally seized voting machines and tried to break into it. They had a voting machine in a hotel room. They have charged a bunch of GOP in Michigan, just haven’t linked it to Trump directly yet, but I think that day is coming.

[llmart]

10. Michigan

We are so fortunate that voters went full on Democrat and flipped our State House.

And, a big shout out to Dana Nessel!! Love that woman.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. Agree

So proud of what Michigan democrats have accomplished here since 2016. A total take over of the state and the results we're seeing are amazing.

I do think Nessel may charge Trump.

[James48]

16. Re: Michigan

A good deal of that “ takeover”is owed to the change in redistributive cringe law we passed in 2018. If the republicans had sole control of distracting, instead of the neutral citizens panel, we’d still be under R control with 46% of the voters.

Every state needs to model our vote and change in redistricting law.

[Johnny2X2X]

23. Wisconsin is about to go through this

Controllinig state supreme courts is huge. Michigan had non partisan redistricting that the state supreme court allowed on the ballot when the GOP tried to remove it. This was actually made possible by a GOP judge going against her party. So we redistricted. Then other ballot initiatives like legal weed, protecting voter rights, and protecting women's body autonomy rights made the ballot and drove lberal turnout.

[Bluethroughu]

19. I thought trump had invited them to the White House before

1/6? For a dinner, Mcdonald's, and a meeting to discuss their electoral votes.

[Hortensis]

24. And failed in all 7 states -- 3 in the SW, 3 in the NE, 1 in the south.

[malaise]

2. The arrogant fools had no idea about Georgia's RICO laws and further that Raffensperger was recordin

Sweet.

[kentuck]

4. Yes.

The Republicans in Georgia did not act as they thought they would.

[malaise]

5. Precisely

😀

[jaxexpat]

3. You got it right, kentuck.

Geographically speaking, of course, Georgia was the slipknot in the noose for this confederacy of conspirators. If it wouldn't play, Trump couldn't count on any of the others. Poor lonely Donald....... Who, now, will make America great again?

[DemocraticPatriot]

6. I think the devil is going to lose another one...

For some reason, all this reminded me of an old song.... lol

[onetexan]

7. THIS!!☝️

[lastlib]

9. ...and this time, he ran into Fani, not Johnny....

And Fani is by far the better "fiddler," as it were.

For which we are ALL grateful beyond measure!

[Unwind Your Mind]

15. Opening song on Stephanie Miller this morning

[Traildogbob]

17. Daniels was a hard right trump humper.

Are there not better Georgia songs? On the other hand, Maybe there is irony in tying ole Charlie right to the wagon of trumps fall from “Grace”.

[SilverDawg]

8. I was considering

This very question late last night while anticipating indictments. I’m a citizen of Fulton County, Atlanta and I’m taking this very personally. Georgia has
been a reliable red state in Presidential and Governor elections since Bill Clinton and Gov. Roy Barnes. So a shock when the State went for Biden in 2020. I believe DJT and co conspirators thought we were stupid Southerners who could be intimidated and run over. WRONG.

[Dulcinea]

26. I'm in DeKalb County.

Plenty of us here worked hard to make sure Biden was elected in this state. We're fully prepared to do it again. That includes native Georgians & transplants alike. None of us are stupid or intimidated by these losers.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

11. Georgia republicans were...insulted by the notion they couldn't run a fair election.

Gerrymandering they can do fine and without regret or remorse… and are prepared to take the flak…but incompetence allegations??…is…too far a reach. That’s personal.

[LiberalFighter]

13. The Perfect crime.

[SYFROYH]

14. True, GA Gov. Kemp ran on a Trump-like campaign.

Trump probably thought they would be agreeable.

Kemp is very conservative and it shows in the laws he signs, but he is not a MAGAt.

[leftieNanner]

18. Plus

Georgia is in the Appeals Court under Clarence Thomas. They planned to push it up to him (and Ginni, of course).

[Bluethroughu]

21. Ah-ha! That's the ticket!

[Wounded Bear]

20. They also thought they could flip the Senate back...

but it seems them being in the spotlight for those weeks in Dec/Jan motivated the Democratic base to make sure the Senate seats went Dem. trump is a loser, and races that spotlight him tend to be bad for repubs.

[CaptainTruth]

22. Trials, verdicts, & sentences!

And I'm hoping the verdicts & sentences aren't disappointing.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. They were picking states that were either trifecta GOP or with GOP-controlled state legislatures

(with a couple "backups" for good measure)

In the case of GA, with a (R) Governor & (R) legislature, when they saw that Ossoff had actually come close enough to Purdue to have to do a run-off, and Warnock's first special election run that Nov. 2020, also required him to do a run-off, those 2 circumstances seemed to be the canary in the coal mine there (and that's not counting the Stacy Abrams factor although she couldn't break through the Kemp wall).

Similarly, AZ had a (R) Governor and (R) legislature (although a (D) SOS) and then you suddenly had a " (D) " (in quotes) - Kyrsten Sinema, flip Jeff Flake's (R) seat in 2018 and another (D) - Mark Kelly - eventually flip McCain's seat the following year in 2020. More alarm bells to start attacking the elections.

So with the above 2, they were hoping their GOP buddies would "go along".

Here in PA, we had a (D) Governor and SOS but a (R)-controlled state legislature, so they wanted to try to do their shenanigans with Ghouliani's help by throwing lawsuit after lawsuit against us here, while attempting to rally the legislature to do anything in their power to reverse what was looking like a flip back to blue - possibly thanks to the-then brand new "no excuse absentee ballots" that the (R) legislature almost unanimously enacted (save for 1 GOP legislator). Before 2020, the last time PA voted (R) for President was 1988. What helped here thwarting some of the lawsuits was that PA had a (D)-majority state Supreme Court.

WI and MI both had trifectas at the time but they also had some (D) Senators (Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters in MI & Tammy Baldwin in WI), so that was more "warning signs" for them that those states could flip back.

NV and NM were odd borderline ones for them but NM had a (R) Governor at least through 2018 as did NV.