President Trump lost Georgia to President-elect Joe Biden by 11,799 votes on Nov. 3. That same day, Sen. David Perdue received 88,098 more votes than Jon Ossoff, and in a special election, the combined votes of Republicans, including Kelly Loeffler and Doug Collins, received more votes than Rafael Warnock.
So, it’s nothing short of a catastrophe for Republicans that, two months later, Warnock and Ossoff appear victorious in the Georgia runoff elections.
In the two months leading up to the Georgia runoffs, Democrats ought to have been preoccupied by the transition to craft the Biden administration. By building on Perdue and Loeffler’s existing leads, Republicans should have secured the party’s control of the Senate — the only chamber of Congress with the possibility of reining in a Democrat-controlled House of Representatives and Biden’s White House. Instead, Trump and his coterie of conspiracy theorists spent the past two months trying to convince Republicans that their votes were stolen in elections.
Evidently, Republicans in Georgia believed them.
In countless counties, the same proportion of Democratic senatorial voters came out to support Ossoff and Warnock. But Republican support did not hold up. Biden has been handed a government that is nearly unified, and he was given it by Trump and the fools following him down his Pied Piper path to assuage his own ego.
Trump’s loss could have been simply celebrated as a remarkable 10-seat narrowing of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s caucus. It could have been taken as a monumental shift of Latino voters toward Republicans, and perhaps mourned as a sign that the Democratic Party under Biden had made extreme gains among women. A true leader of the Republican Party would have paid his people back by fighting to ensure that Loeffler and Perdue won the Senate seats to secure millions of conservatives a nation free from woke infringement on our civil liberties, economically destructive lockdowns, and basic law and order and the right to our children’s education.
Instead, Trump recruited kooks such as Sidney Powell (who would have you believe that Hugo Chavez was implicated in a contemporary voting machine company rigging the election) and Jenna Ellis (the self-described constitutional law professor who has never taught at a law school) to lie to the entire party that Trump’s election was actually stolen.
It was not stolen. The same election that gave Biden the White House gave the GOP 10 extra seats in the House and exactly half of the Senate, and a faithful leadership team of the GOP would have done everything in its power to obliterate any odds whatsoever that Vice President-elect Kamala Harris stood as the swing vote in the upper chamber.
Instead, Trump and his team lied to the public while waffling in court. Unfortunately for millions of gun owners, the unborn, and business owners praying that they aren’t shut down by Covidiots, that team lied to ensure the ego of their Dear Leader wasn’t offended. They stole the Georgia election in the most elementary way possible: by telling them the prior election had been stolen, so why bother voting at all?
They lied, giving Biden the keys to the castle. Every self-respecting conservative should now understand this paradox: Trump and his cabal of crazies must be forcefully repudiated in order to preserve what Trump accomplished as president — the judicial gains ensured by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, tax cuts brokered by former House Speaker Paul Ryan, and foreign policy feats achieved by Jared Kushner.
