We need to focus less on GA and more on other states that are winnable without the extra hurdles.
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> Two weeks after that vote, the Georgia Republican Party passed a resolution banning lobbyists from serving on the state election board. (As a former representative and a lawyer, Mr. Lindsey was a registered lobbyist for multiple counties in the state.)
Meanwhile, the new, clean election board:
> Mr. Jeffares has told multiple people in Georgia government that he had a job in a future Trump administration, according to three people familiar with the conversations. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Mr. Jeffares clarified that he had pitched himself as a potential candidate for a regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency in a conversation with Brian Jack, the former White House political director in the Trump administration.
Honestly, I wish Democrats were better mobilized on this issue. The messaging about how Trump and his cohorts threaten democracy has been long on generalization and short on specifics. That lets Trump and his allies portray their moves to subvert free and fair elections as moves that actually reinforce them. The “election integrity” argument is persuasive to many independents on a surface level. Countering it requires clear messaging in response.
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We need to focus less on GA and more on other states that are winnable without the extra hurdles.
> Two weeks after that vote, the Georgia Republican Party passed a resolution banning lobbyists from serving on the state election board. (As a former representative and a lawyer, Mr. Lindsey was a registered lobbyist for multiple counties in the state.)
Meanwhile, the new, clean election board:
> Mr. Jeffares has told multiple people in Georgia government that he had a job in a future Trump administration, according to three people familiar with the conversations. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Mr. Jeffares clarified that he had pitched himself as a potential candidate for a regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency in a conversation with Brian Jack, the former White House political director in the Trump administration.
Honestly, I wish Democrats were better mobilized on this issue. The messaging about how Trump and his cohorts threaten democracy has been long on generalization and short on specifics. That lets Trump and his allies portray their moves to subvert free and fair elections as moves that actually reinforce them. The “election integrity” argument is persuasive to many independents on a surface level. Countering it requires clear messaging in response.