I haven’t seen this noted elsewhere, though no doubt it has. It is a somewhat delicious irony that Brian Kemp, who most assuredly stole his own election, has been rather up-front about leaking the fact that he told Trump to shove it when Trump asked for similar treatment.Trump, after all, must be aware of Kemp’s previous transgressions, so that must make Kemp’s refusal all the more difficult to take.
Of course the times are a bit different. Kemp stole the governorship in plain sight, but with enough deniability that a cooperative judicial system, had the results been legally challenged, would have found a way to minimize Kemp’s criminality. No so this time, as the avalanche of adverse decisions against Trump’s almost comedic series of lawsuits has demonstrated.
This time around, the theft would have had to be both open and retroactive, and apparently that’s where Kemp drew the line. And after all, why should he take any risks for Trump, who is on his way out anyway? The fact is, they should have put some effort into stealing the election prior to the vote, like Kemp did when it was his turn. But whether it was due to Stacey Abrams work, or complaisance on the part of Republicans about their prospects in Georgia, they just didn’t do enough spadework to enable an Election Day theft. Don’t be surprised if some gerrymandered legislatures start looking at their current method of selecting electors to see if it might be a good idea to write in a method of overriding the popular state vote if the legislature is so inclined.
Notice: Not that many are likely to care, but comments are not working on this blog at the moment. I’ll be putting this notice on posts until I get the problem cleared up. That will involve attempting to contact someone at my web hosting service, which is both time consuming and aggravating in the extreme, so I’ve been putting it off until I have a few hours I can spend on hold waiting for someone to talk to me.
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