See Loeffler’s answers about Trump and the Senate majority in her Sunday evening debate against Democrat Raphael Warnock ahead of the January 5 runoff.
During the debate, when asked about Trump’s continued insistence that the elections are “rigged” (he did not provide evidence), Loeffler said, “The president has the right to pursue all legal recourse to ensure that these are free and fair elections in Georgia.”
“The responsibility rests with the foreign minister. He has to run elections that the Georgians trust Everything is at stake on January 5th, The country’s future. We can take the path of supporting the American dream, of supporting the economy and bypassing this virus together. “
Spencer: Well, if everything was at stake on January 5th, that would assume President Trump lost. Is that what you say?
Loeffler: “You know, what is at stake is the majority in the Senate. That will determine who submits the bills to the Senate floor, and under the Republican Senate, we have been able to provide $ 3 trillion in relief to the hardworking Americans who have been hit hard by this.” Pandemic to frontline workers, hospitals and schools We must continue to make sure that we open up our economy.
“The Democrats want to maintain this lockdown. They want to change our country radically, and the agent of change is the radical liberal Rafael Warnock, someone who said he is reimagining the police approved by organizations whose primary goal is to stop funding the police.”
“We know which direction the country will take, and we will continue to make sure that Georgians understand that our way of life here in Georgia and across the country is under attack from the left.”
Spencer: Well, not to clarify this point, but all of those things you’re warning about won’t happen, probably with President Trump as President. So it’s like you’re acknowledging that this is part of it and now it’s important for Republicans to keep the majority in the Senate and that They have a divided government.
Loeffler: Well, I saw for myself that the Senate is the shock absorber in this country. I saw this for myself when I arrived in Washington, and the impeachment trial began. “
Loeffler’s responses above show that she knows she has been arrested. Because she cannot discuss these two matters simultaneously:
1) The Republican majority in the Senate is the only thing preventing Democrats from stopping funding for the police and beginning the march toward socialism.
And the
2) Donald Trump has already won the election and will hold office for another four years.
It is either / or a suggestion. If Trump actually wins, a Republican majority in the Senate would be a luxury – certainly – but it wouldn’t be necessary. This would not be the last blockade against the Democrats ’radical agenda.
Loeffler is trying to get both ways here. She is afraid of alienating even one of the state’s most loyal Trump supporters – thinking she needs them to win – by admitting what everyone knows: that he lost and won, Joe Biden. At the same time, it tries to redirect the urgency and risks of the repatriation race by making it clear that if Warnock wins, the Democrats will have the liberty to fundamentally change the country.
It is completely illogical. It is rooted in what underlies much of the current indifference of Republicans: unwillingness to admit that Trump lost because he and his most loyal supporters, without any facts supporting them, continue to say he has not lost. This makes Loeffler’s argument – this race will determine the country’s future for the next two years – impossible.
Which is what Loeffler seems to have realized – if only for a moment – on Sunday night.
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