In Georgia Runoffs Trump is Reaping What He Has Sown

Donald Trump has been beating the bass drum of election fraud for the entirety of his presidential campaign, stating that the only way he would lose is if the election were rigged. Early on he came out in criticism of states’ allowing absentee ballots to be cast by mail, claiming without any proof that such a system was vulnerable to massive fraud. And when the state of Georgia was called for Joe Biden he claimed that the entire Georgia election infrastructure was corrupt, disregarding the fact that it was entirely run by the Republican party. Now we have a significant portion of Trump-supporting Republicans encouraging other Trump supporters to boycott the January Senate runoff races; some are claiming that the races are rigged and that voting in them will only help enable even more fraud, others are saying the Republican candidates Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue have not done enough to support Trump in his efforts to overturn the state’s election results and hand the victory to Trump. Even with full participation by voters from both parties these races are expected to be very competitive; if a significant number of Republican voters heed the calls to boycott the elections it will likely hand the victories to Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, giving them a 50/50 split in the senate, which would allow Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to cast the deciding vote on any ties. It would appear that for the Republican party in Georgia, Trump’s attempts to discredit the election system in the state has succeeded a tiny bit too well.