Original air date: Sept. 10, 2023
Nowhere is the controversy over the 2020 election hotter than in Georgia. Multiple voting irregularities stoked accusations from Trump’s side that the election was stolen. Democrat prosecutors are pursuing criminal charges accusing Trump of illegally trying to overturn the results. Today, national polls show Trump is far and away the Republican frontrunner. Now the Republican Party in Georgia is trying to present a united front heading into 2024. Scott Thuman reports from Atlanta.
The following is a transcript of a report from “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson.” Watch the video by clicking the link at the end of the page.
At the next election, this southern state — until recently a Republican stronghold — could determine the entire country’s direction.
Josh McKoon: Our path to the White House runs through Georgia. A Republican, to get elected president, Georgia is a must-win state. You look at the map — Republicans can’t get to 270 without Georgia.
Josh McKoon has one of the tougher jobs in politics. As the new chairman of the Georgia GOP, he’s trying to move his state more firmly into Republican hands.
When Joe Biden won here in 2020, he became the first Democrat presidential candidate to do so in 28 years. And the left didn’t just carry the White House; two first-time politicians, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock — both Democrats — beat two incumbent Republicans in the U.S. Senate in a rare double runoff.
2020 left deep divisions among Republicans here. Biden won by less than 12,000 votes, a razor-thin margin of just 0.2%.
And Trump’s campaign pointed to scores of irregularities. Most turned out to be false, but a handful were real. There were tabulation errors originally favoring Biden. And counting was paused because of a pipe break, only to be quickly resumed after Republican election observers left the room.
But the state’s Republican governor and secretary of state, who ran the election, repeatedly defended its integrity against Trump’s attacks.
Scott: What about the biggest x-factor, perhaps in all of this, being former President Trump. Does he help you or hurt you these days?
McKoon: Look, I think there are a lot of people that I’ve seen get involved in the Georgia Republican Party because of their excitement around the Trump administration, the president’s policies, the America First agenda. And I think that the key in the general election is, while keeping our base motivated and out to the polls, that we do keep a focus on the Biden administration’s failures and how a Republican president, whoever that is, is going to put America in a position to lead the world again.
Though Atlanta’s suburbs have become less Republican, the Democrats face challenges here too. Case in point: State Representative Mesha Mainor, elected on the Democrats’ ticket three years ago.
She recently made the bold move to switch to the Republican Party.
What is it about the Democratic Party that you think has changed so dramatically that it just was no longer home for you?
Mainor: Think about what the Democrats are promoting. Right now, they are promoting, we need to get this antisemitism law passed. I am supporting all ethnic and religious groups, but that is their priority. The other priority — transgender rights. I support everybody, but that is their priority.
Mainor says her focus now, as a Republican, will remain education.
McKoon: One of the things I’m most proud of in this short tenure I’ve had as Republican Party chairman is to convince Representative Mesha Mainor to switch parties, become the first black female Republican in the history of the Georgia General Assembly.
While McKoon sees Mainor’s switch as a win for the party, it is contrasted by some looming concerns. Nineteen defendants in Trump’s circle, headlined by Trump himself, were indicted in August for allegedly scheming to overturn his 2020 loss there. McKoon admits his party is spending an inordinate amount of time, energy, and money to defend members fighting to now stay out of jail.
He hopes that 2020 was the party’s low point in the Peach State, reminding Republicans to stick to core conservative issues, like the economy.
McKoon: I would just ask people to ask themselves, between 2017, 2021, how was the economy doing? What was your, you know, personal feeling of public safety like? It’s the age-old question. Do you feel better off today than you did before Joe Biden was elected? Everyone I ask that question to, it’s a resounding answer; the answer is no.
But aware the days when an R next to the name on the ballot would guarantee a Republican win are long gone.
For Full Measure, I’m Scott Thuman in Georgia.
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Five states (AZ,GA,PA,MI,WI) had voting anomalies in 2020. Those states have done nothing but started “investigations”. Delay and obfuscation is the weapon used over the people.
I am skeptical of those states doing anything to ensure “true” votes.
I believe the elections in Georgia were as honest and free of taint as any ever held in Chicago or NYC.
Sharyl and Full Measure Team,
How much to bet—Trump and TEAM
are clueless about where America’s
present-day troubles began (( Trump
may become too broke to make that
bet with this student of world history )).
Forwarded Message :
Alexandra,
Re :How Elitists Get Away with Their Criminality
“They” get away with it,
partly—because few
know the history of the
POWER of Secret, Satanic
Cabals Running Macro-
World Events.
Where/When Today’s
troubles began ? :
in Europe, in 1829 :
– Juxtaposition : Baron Rothschild 1829 Quote and Quotes from Helena’s Page –
”From The Asiatic Journal and
Monthly Miscellany (Vol 29),
Dec 1829, pg 79
“Restoration Of The Jews.
“Baron Rothschild has engaged to fur-
nish to the Turkish Sultan the enormous
sum of 35,000,000 piastres, at three instal-
ments, without interest, on condition of
the Sultan’s engaging, for himself and his
successors, to yield to Baron Rothschild
for ever the sovereignty of Jerusalem, and
the territory of ANCIENT PALESTINE [ this
reporters emphasis ], which was occupied
by the twelve tribes. The Baron’s intention
is to grant TO THE RICH Israelites [ my
emohasis ] who are scattered about in dif-
ferent parts of the world, portions of that
fine country [ land ], where he proposes to
establish seigniories, and to give them, as
far as possible, their ancient and sacred
laws.—Letter from Smyrna “
Calling upon readers’
C O M P R E H E N S I O N
ability :
Word-search, “History of
Rothschild bank and wars”:
e.g., :
“ A Rothschild family biography mentions a London meeting where
an ‘International Banking Syndicate’ decided to pit the American
North against the South as part of a ‘divide and conquer’ strategy.
German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck once stated, ‘The division of
the United States into federations of equal force was decided long
before the Civil War. These bankers were afraid that the United States…
would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the
Rothschilds prevailed.’ ”—paragraph is found in DuckDuckGo dot com.
-Rick
The bottom line is that there is a faction within the republican party (the Bush faction) that cares less about a republican winning the White House (or Senate) than it cares about regaining control OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY back from MAGA republicans.
Control of the PARTY is more important to this faction than control of the COUNTRY, and Georgia is home base to that republican faction.
So very simply, they would PREFER to lose the White House (and Senate) if it helps them get back control of the republican party, because control of the party is their money-making machine. Anyone that doesn’t understand that doesn’t understand politics in the USA.
William Bayer,
Exactly Correct !
/R
William Bayer,
Exactly Correct !
/R
We the American people (Dems, Republicans, independents) care about America before any party. We will overwhelmingly vote for Trump this coming election. Hopefully this will bring the Dem party to the middle and totally reject the communists section of the party.
“We will overwhelmingly vote for Trump this coming election.”
I guess Mitt Romney didn’t get the memo, since he’s ANNOUNCED that he will vote democrat (again) in 2024.
Democrats aren’t the problem. Joetard has been SO disastrous that even many democrats will be voting for Trump. RINOs are the problem, because they want control of the party back and don’t really care who is president, as long as it isn’t Trump.