Trump’s Georgia Pressure Campaign Is Still Poisoning the Party
The Georgia election crisis was not over on January 5. Trump’s allies were still pushing claims and pressure tactics aimed at overturning the 2020 result, even as the state’s certified outcome stood and the party faced the wreckage of its own election lies. The problem was no longer just the original phone call or the original falsehood; it was the way the whole operation kept metastasizing into new threats, new conspiracies, and new demands on Republican officials.
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Trump’s Georgia Pressure Campaign Is Still Poisoning the Party
The Georgia election crisis was not over on January 5. Trump’s allies were still pushing claims and pressure tactics aimed at overturning the 2020 result, even as the state’s certified outcome stood and the party faced the wreckage of its own election lies. The problem was no longer just the original phone call or the original falsehood; it was the way the whole operation kept metastasizing into new threats, new conspiracies, and new demands on Republican officials.
The Georgia election crisis was not over on January 5. Trump’s allies were still pushing claims and pressure tactics aimed at overturning the 2020 result, even as the state’s certified outcome stood and the party faced the wreckage of its own election lies. The problem was no longer just the original phone call or the original falsehood; it was the way the whole operation kept metastasizing into new threats, new con…
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