Assault on U.S. Capitol was sparked by elected leaders
President Trump and Republican lawmakers have made the unthinkable a reality: America is now a place where sore losers storm the seat of government.
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President Trump and Republican lawmakers have made the unthinkable a reality: America is now a place where sore losers storm the seat of government.
Savannah Morning News UPDATE (1:22 p.m., Wed.): On Wednesday afternoon, the Chatham County Board of Elections announced that 33,000 of the 34,576 absentee ballots had been processed. The count was as of 1 p.m. They added that a delivery of 4,000 ballots were expected this afternoon and they expect to complete all remaining ballots by the end of Wednesday. Once updated, these results will include all Election Day in-poll ballots, all Advanced Voting in-poll ballots, and all Absentee-By-Mail ballots received to date, the elections board said in a statement. Earlier story: Chatham County's el...
By her telling, a teenage Kelly Loeffler’s first job was pulling weeds in a soybean field. Decades later, Sen. Loeffler now toils in the warped crop circle that is national politics. Except today, she is the weed. Georgia voters will decide whether to pull her from her place Tuesday in the U.S. Senate runoffs. Her prospects of victory are good, a telling narrative on this moment in the history of American politics. Put simply, her competition is as flawed as an outlet-mall diamond and the electorate as gullible as a toddler. Add to the equation conspiracy theories about election fraud and...
In a sternly worded letter, a group of religious leaders urged U.S. Sen Kelly Loeffler to stop attacking the Rev. Raphael Warnock’s activism work and religion. “We call upon you, Kelly Loeffler, to cease your false attacks on Reverend Warnock’s social justice theological and faith traditions which visualizes a just and ardent world where love, fairness and equal justice under the law for marginalized people of all races is not only accepted as an authentic prophetic message in the tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King, but also a central message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” read the ...
Georgia is sick this holiday season, and not just with COVID-19. The whole state is infected with a malady no mask or social distance can prevent, and no vaccine or antibody cocktail treatment can curb. We’re sick of the 2020 election. Sick of unsubstantiated voter fraud claims. Sick of kick-him-on-the-way-out attacks on a president a month away from irrelevance. Most of all, though, we’re sick of Kelly Loeffler, Jon Ossoff, David Perdue and Raphael Warnock. Sick of their talking points. Sick of their rallies. Sick of them misrepresenting their opponents and their opponents’ reco...