January 13, 2021 at 2:20 PM
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Following the Democratic sweep at the ballot box in Georgia, Republican officials are racing to tighten election laws to prevent a repeat of the purported massive electoral fraud they claim took place this cycle. At the same time, Trump’s handpicked Peach State fraud buster, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Bobby Christine, is admitting privately to his staff that
actually there isn’t any fraud at all. Ooopsie!
“Quite frankly, just watching television you would assume that you got election cases stacked from the floor to the ceiling,” Christine said Monday on a call with lawyers from the Northern District Office which was leaked to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I am so happy to find out that’s not the case, but I didn’t know coming in.”
WASHINGTON • The White House pressured the United States Attorney in Atlanta to quit because President Donald Trump was unhappy with a lack of cooperation from officials there on his unproven allegations of election fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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The Daily 202: GOP looks to win back Senate in 2022, as new NRSC chairman defends vote to reject Pa. results James Hohmann
with Mariana Alfaro Democrats taking control of the Senate after winning upsets in both Georgia runoffs would have been the biggest political story of any ordinary week, but the seismic news was quickly overshadowed when a pro-Trump mob took over the Capitol. House Democrats formally introduced an article of impeachment this morning against President Trump, charging him with “incitement of insurrection.” The House could vote as early as Wednesday. In a brief session, House Republicans blocked a measure calling on Vice President Pence and the Cabinet to remove Trump under the 25th Amendment, ensuring a vote in the full House on Tuesday.