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      Trump election fraud claims are hurting our state, says Georgia official – video

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      Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, warned that Donald Trump’s repeated claims the election had been stolen were causing damage, after two separate recounts confirmed Joe Biden had won the state. ‘We have now counted legally-cast ballots three times, and the results remain unchanged,’ Raffensperger said. ‘Disinformation regarding election administration should be rejected. Integrity matters. Truth matters.’
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      Georgia recertifies election results, confirming Biden's victory

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      Georgia has re-certified the state’s results in the 3 November presidential election after two separate recounts, confirming again that the Democratic president-elect, Joe Biden, had won the state.
      “It’s been a long 34 days since the election on November 3,” Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, said in a press release on Monday. “We have now counted legally cast ballots three times, and the results remain unchanged.”
      Georgia conducted a full hand recount shortly after the election, which showed Biden still leading by about 13,000 votes. Despite that hand recount, Donald Trump’s campaign still requested another recount because of the narrow margin of Biden’s victory.
      That recount has now confirmed Biden’s victory in Georgia, making the president-elect the first Democrat since Bill Clinton to carry the state.
      Shortly after that announcement was made, Trump once again lashed out against Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp. The president has repeatedly called for a special legislative session in the state to once again challenge the election results, a request that Kemp has reportedly declined.
      Raffensperger said on Sunday that a special session to overturn the state’s election results “would be then nullifying the will of the people”.
      Georgia’s lieutenant governor, Geoff Duncan, a Republican, told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that he did not support Trump’s call for a special legislative session.
      “Calling the general assembly back in at this point would almost be along the lines of a solution trying to find a problem,” Duncan said. “And we’re certainly not going to move the goalposts at this point in the election. We are going to continue to follow the letter of the law, which gives us a very clearcut direction as to how to execute an election.”
      The president staged a rally in Valdosta, Georgia, on Saturday night in which he repeatedly falsely claimed he won the state. Two Georgia Republicans face 5 January runoffs which will decide control of the Senate.
      “They cheated and they rigged our presidential election, but we will still win it,” Trump falsely insisted. “And they’re going to try and rig this [Senate] election too.” More

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      Georgia debate: Loeffler and Warnock spar over Trump election loss – video

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      Republican senator Kelly Loeffler repeatedly dodged questions about Donald Trump’s election defeat during her debate with Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock ahead of a crucial Senate runoff election in January. Declining to acknowledge Joe Biden had won after a direct question from Warnock, Loeffler said Trump had the right to ‘legal recourse’ . Warnock replied by attacking Loeffler’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Georgia.
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      Trump’s Pressure Campaign in Georgia

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      'A coward': Jon Ossoff addresses empty podium as Senator David Perdue skips Georgia debate – video

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      The Democratic challenger for a US Senate seat in Georgia debated against an empty lectern as Senator David Perdue, the Republican incumbent, declined to participate in the debate against Democrat Jon Ossoff ahead of the runoff election. ‘Your senator is refusing to answer questions and debate his opponent because he believes he shouldn’t have to,’ Ossoff said on the debate stage, standing beside Perdue’s empty lectern. ‘He believes the senate seat belongs to him. The senate seat belongs to the people’
      Georgia runoff debate: senator Kelly Loeffler refuses three times to accept Biden victory
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      Georgia runoff debate: senator Kelly Loeffler refuses multiple times to accept Biden victory

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      Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud dominated a tense debate in Georgia ahead of a crucial Senate runoff election as Republican senator Kelly Loeffler refused three times to acknowledge the result of the November ballot, which Trump lost by a convincing electoral college margin and by more than 7m votes.
      The future of the US senate hangs on the outcome of the 5 January election in Georgia with the two seats at stake determining whether Republicans or Democrats will hold an effective majority in the upper chamber. The result will play a major role in president-elect Joe Biden’s ability to legislate and govern during his tenure as the next president of the United States.
      Loeffler faces Democrat Raphael Warnock in the first race, while incumbent Republican David Perdue faces Democrat Jon Ossoff in the second.
      On Sunday Ossoff debated alone next to an empty podium as Perdue declined to partake in the televised debate amid allegations of corruption tied to his stock market trading during the pandemic.

      Ossoff argued that Perdue avoided the debate in Atlanta as he did not want to “incriminate himself” over his financial dealings, which include suspiciously timed investments in companies set to benefit from the pandemic.
      “It shows an astonishing arrogance and sense of entitlement for Georgia’s senior US senator to believe he shouldn’t have to debate at a moment like this in our history,” Ossoff said.
      Both Perdue and Loeffler appeared at a rally held by Donald Trump on Saturday night in south Georgia, ostensibly staged for the president to show his support for both senate candidates, but which saw the outgoing president make repeated baseless claims of election fraud and criticism of Republican state officials who certified a victory for Biden in Georgia.
      Although Loeffler and Perdue have not articulated the same baseless conspiracy theories as Trump, like the majority of their Republican colleagues they have not recognized Biden as the president-elect.
      On Sunday, Loeffler was asked on numerous occasions whether she believed Trump’s fictitious claims of election fraud and declined to answer directly each time.
      She argued that Trump, who has so far lost all meaningful decisions in his numerous legal attempts to subvert the results through the courts, had “every right to every legal recourse” in the election.
      Trump lost the state of Georgia, a long time Republican stronghold, by over 12,000 votes in a result that was certified by the Republican secretary of state over two weeks ago.
      Loeffler attempted to pivot away from the issue by arguing that Trump had also encouraged his supporters on Saturday to vote for her in January.
      “The president was also clear that Georgians need to come out and vote for David Perdue and myself because of what’s at stake,” she said.
      Both Republicans candidates face a rhetorical tightrope. On the one hand they are refusing to acknowledge that Biden has won, but on other framing the Georgia Senate race as crucial to prevent Democratic control of government, itself a tacit acknowledgement that Trump has lost the White House.
      Warnock, pastor of the historic Ebenezer baptist church in Atlanta, criticised Loeffler for her position, and used one of his own questions in the debate to ask: “Yes or no, Senator Loeffler: did Donald Trump lose the presidential election?”
      The senator dodged the answer again.
      Loeffler, who is a multi-millionaire, also faces allegations of shady stock market trading tied to the pandemic, hit back by branding Warnock, a centrist Democrat, as a “radical liberal” and at one point asked the pastor to renounce Marxism in public.
      Warnock did not engage, and concluded the debate by stating: “It’s dark right now. But morning is on the way. It’s our job, Georgia to put our shoes on and get ready because there are those engaged in the politics of division. They have no vision and so they engage in division.”
      Early voting in the Georgia runoff begins on 14 December with polls indicating an extremely tight election in both races. More