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DEMOLITION CREW: Many of the 19 defendants in Trump’s new indictment are now surnames of his tireless efforts to push false allegations of voter fraud or nullify the effects of the 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.
But there are a handful who are well-known outside the state, and together they reveal another aspect of Georgia’s history: how Donald Trump destroyed one of the country’s most successful statewide parties in just a few years.
First, let’s go back to the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
At that time, Georgia was as red as possible. In 2012, the final results of the presidential race seemed so predetermined that no polls were even conducted in Georgia.
For more than a decade, the Republican Party controlled the legislative chambers and the offices of the governor, attorney general and secretary of state. He also held a maximum of 14 seats in the House of Representatives and two seats in the United States Senate.
But in the seven years since Trump made his first impression on the Georgia ballot, the GOP’s fortunes have worsened dramatically.
On the surface, little has changed: Republicans are still state governments. But Cobb and Gwinnett counties, once the reliable and fast-growing Republican suburban giants of the Atlanta area, have blocked the Republican camp. Joe Biden won the state in 2020, marking only the moment in 28 years when Georgia voted for Democrats for president. And Republicans lost any of the seats in the U. S. Senate. In the US, in elections in which Trump can be seen as the proximate cause of defeat.
In 2024, Georgia is listed as one of the leading states on the presidential battlefield.
Meanwhile, the state party is at war with itself, a conflagration provoked by Trump after top Republicans refused to heed his demands to overturn the 2020 results. Trump attacked and strongly backed the main rivals of Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger any of whom were thrown under the bus through David Shafer, the former state party chairman now facing 8 charges.
Shafer is one of 3 false Trump voters charged in the Fulton County case; the others are state Sen. Shawn Still and former Republican Coffee County Speaker Cathleen Latham, an influential player in South Georgia Republican politics. Latham named in the indictment for his involvement in an alleged scheme to help pro-Trump activists gain unauthorized access to voting structures in his county.
To what extent is the state apparatus of the Republican Party sunk?The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported last month that the Georgia Republican Party spent more than $520,000 in legal fees in the first six months of 2023 to constitute the so-called Republican proxy electorate in the Fulton County investigation.
Regardless of the final outcome of the case, the State party will never be the same again. In Georgia’s 2022 Republican primary, nearly every candidate approved by Trump was defeated at the polls. base activist and leads Georgia’s presidential primary in early 2024. The divisions between radical pro-Trump factions and the status quo aren’t going away anytime soon.
This is transparent today after Trump continued to make unsubstantiated claims on social media, promising to release “an important, complex, detailed but irrefutable report on presidential election fraud that took a stand in Georgia. “
Kemp, now a second-term governor who is being discussed as a presidential candidate, had a prepared answer.
“The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen,” he wrote on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. in court. Our elections in Georgia are safe, available, and fair and will remain so as long as I am governor. The long term of our country is at stake in 2024 and this will have to be our priority.
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— Biden plans to stop in Maui “as soon as we can” as death toll from wildfires rises: President Joe Biden and first child Jill Biden will travel to Maui, Hawaii, “as soon as we can,” he said Tuesday in the wake of wildfires sweeping across the island to become the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century.
Wildfires killed another 99 people Monday since the fires began last week in the historic town of Lahaina on the island of Maui. The catastrophic fire prompted mass evacuations and widespread power outages, affecting thousands more. On Thursday, Biden approved a primary crisis declaration that Hawaii will lose federal aid to the island.
Trump will most likely try to take the Georgia case to federal court: One of the first major battles in the new extortion case against Donald Trump is likely imminent: Should the former president face a jury in state or federal court?
Although the charges were filed in state court in Fulton County, Georgia, Trump will surely try to “return the case” to federal court, where he would potentially have a friendlier jury group and the ability to decide on a trial in which he appointed to The Bench.
In an attempt to take the case to federal court, Trump would have to argue that much of the conduct he is accused of was committed in his capacity as a federal government official, as he was still president in the critical era in which he and his allies tried to overturn the effects of the 2020 election. A federal law, known as the “impeachment law,” sometimes allows any “U. S. official” prosecuted or prosecuted in state court to transfer the case to federal court if the matter arises from the official’s governmental duties.
Why the new charges opposing Trump are different: Earlier this week, Donald Trump faced 78 felony charges in 3 prosecutions of criminals. Then, around Monday in Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis added a fourth case along with thirteen others.
In some respects, the new tariffs resemble the previous ones. However, beyond the similarities, the case of Georgia stands out. In terms of the scope of the alleged wrongdoing, the 98-page indictment is far broader than any of the previous allegations against Trump. Some of the fees carry a mandatory minimum sentence. And for the first time, a number of senior aides, lawyers and allies have been named as co-defendants alongside Trump.
Trump says he plans news conference in reaction to Georgia impeachment: Former President Donald Trump said he will attend a news conference next Monday in reaction to a Georgia grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 allies for extortion.
Trump claimed Tuesday in a Truth Social article that a report had been made through his team on “presidential election fraud” and that all fees deserve to be eliminated based on the report’s findings. Willis says Trump and his co-defendants are expected to do so on Aug. 25.
– Third defendant in classified documents case Trump pleads guilty: Carlos De Oliveira, the Mar-a-Lago asset manager and third defendant in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump in Florida, pleaded “guilty” on Tuesday.
This is De Oliveira’s third court appearance for impeachment and guilty plea, following delays when he was unable to locate a local attorney, as required by regulations in the Southern District of Florida.
CHRISTIE: GORE CURRENTLY CONCEDED: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie rejected former President Donald Trump’s claim that he behaved with Al Gore after the 2020 election. “When Al Gore lost his legal challenges, he conceded the election,” said Republican Christie. Donald Trump has been very different. “
The Messenger writes that the GOP presidential hopeful also rejected Trump’s claims that the Justice Department is armed to oppose him. “Running for president is your choice,” Christie said. But that’s no excuse for justice to keep working. “
He says he may not signal the commitment required to participate, yet former President Donald Trump’s Republican rivals are actively preparing as if he is up to the task for the GOP’s first presidential debate of 2024 next week, writes the Associated Press.
Former Vice President Mike Pence holds mock debate sessions in which the role of the former president is played. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been participating in weekly debate preparation sessions for several weeks in an effort to create transparent contrasts with Trump. And Nikki Haley, the former ambassador to the United Nations, plans to prove she can stand up to bullies.
Republican officials in and around Trump’s rival campaigns will be at the debate level, regardless of the drama in the days leading up to the high-stakes case.
The UN Security Council has scheduled an emergency assembly to discuss the worsening humanitarian scenario in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, after Armenia suggested that the foreign network end Azerbaijan’s blockade of remote territory for months, writes Gabriel Gavin.
A Security Council work schedule, released late Monday night, showed the call would be discussed on Wednesday. the breaking point of a humanitarian disaster in its own right. “
With warnings that famine is approaching and reports that the rate of miscarriages of pregnant women has nearly tripled due to malnutrition, the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, released a report last week saying there is “a moderate basis to that genocide being committed. If the foreign network doesn’t act, he told POLITICO, then they are “complicit in genocide. “
Oenologists in the prestigious Bordeaux region are poised to uproot thousands of hectares of vineyards as conversion consumption behavior and warming hit one of the crown jewels of the French agricultural industry, writes Giorgio Leali.
Given Bordeaux’s flagship prestige in the public’s mind, this might seem surprising. However, a combination of factors, adding a decline in red wine consumption, a drop in demand from China and difficulties in producing wine in a warm environment, is markedly transforming wine. production in France.
Red wine consumption has declined particularly in recent decades as French drinkers turn to other, more refreshing beverages such as beer. While high-end Bordeaux bottles such as grands crus still have plenty of buyers, demand for entry-level red wines for the mass market is declining.
The tantalizing theory that a fifth force of nature can exist has been strengthened by the unforeseen oscillation of a subatomic particle, physicists have revealed.
According to existing knowledge, there are 4 basic forces in nature, 3 of which, the electromagnetic force and the strong and weak nuclear forces, are ed through the standard model of particle physics. However, the style does not include the other known basic force, gravity or dark matter: an idea of strange and mysterious substance that makes up about 27% of the universe.
Now, writes The Guardian, researchers have said there may be a fifth basic force of nature. The knowledge comes from experiments at the American particle accelerator Fermilab, which explored how subatomic debris called muons, similar to electrons but about 200 times heavier, moves through a magnetic field.
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