Republicans self-cannibalize in Georgia over Trump’s election fraud venture

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We have moved into the unforeseen, political self-cannibalization phase of the 2020 election cycle. Republican infighting over the merits of President Trump’s rigged election theories has escalated, and at the worst possible time, as the party is tasked with holding on to the two remaining Senate seats.

The two Republicans vying for those seats, Georgia Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, have called on Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to resign. They put out a statement last Monday saying that he “failed to deliver honest and transparent elections.”

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