Day 1,447: Trump predictably leans into baseless election fraud claims in Georgia senate races

Two Georgia runoff elections took place Tuesday, with control of the Senate hanging in the balance.

As results continue to pour in, the margin is razor tight. If Democrats win both seats, they’ll control the upper chamber for the next two years. If Republicans win even one of runoffs, Mitch McConnell will remain majority leader.

Donald Trump is watching, knowing that the results are, at least to some extent, an indictment of him and the rest of the GOP.

Seemingly hedging against a Democratic sweep — with urban, traditionally Democratic areas having more outstanding votes than rural, traditionally Republican areas — Trump leaned into the same baseless election fraud theories he’s claimed for months about his own election.

Since the presidential race was called for Joe Biden, Trump claimed votes counted later must have been fraudulent in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia.

He’s running the same playbook again.

Trump is continuing to argue that a Democratic victory, no matter what, is impossible. Never mind that the governor, lieutenant governor and secretary of state are all Republicans. Never mind that the votes are counted by sworn election officials, with multiple points of oversight. Never mind that millions of Georgians have turned out to vote.

Trump has already showed he’s willing to commit criminal acts and lean on elected officials to “find” votes for him that were never cast. So to throw democracy on the bus for a few of his cronies is not even a second thought to him.

1,447 days in, 15 to go

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