The 2020 election has already been a doozy, so why shouldn’t things continue to get shaken up as we approach the final days of the contest.
In Georgia, two runoff races are poised to determine the balance of the US Senate, and the situation has pushed a number of prominent political operatives to focus on The Peach State voters who will be deciding the fate of the race.
But not everyone is encouraging these voters to act rationally, including a Super PAC tied to Roger Stone, who has suggested that Georgia residents punish the GOP for not doing more to help Donald Trump win the presidential election.
Conservative operatives and a super PAC with ties to infamous GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone are calling for Trump supporters to punish Republicans by sitting out Georgia’s crucial Senate runoffs or writing in Trump’s name instead. And though their efforts remain on the party’s fringes, the trajectory of the movement has Republicans fearful that it could cost the GOP control of the Senate.
The most aggressive call to boycott or cast protest ballots in the two runoff races has, so far, come from a dormant pro-Trump super PAC with ties to Stone that unveiled a new initiative to retaliate against the Republican Party’s supposed turncoats by handing Democrats control of the U.S. Senate.
The group, dubbed the Committee for American Sovereignty, unveiled a new website encouraging Georgia Republicans to write in Trump’s name in both of the upcoming Senate runoff elections, which could determine the party that controls the upper chamber during President-elect Joe Biden’s first two years in office. The PAC argued that doing so will show support for the president in addition to forcing Republicans to address the wild election-fraud conspiracy theories floated by Trump supporters and members of his own legal team.
This particular Super PAC was created in 2016 to push the theory that former President Bill Clinton had fathered a biracial son out of wedlock, and has been dormant since the end of that year’s election.
