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On Tuesday, the Fulton County District Attorney’s office opened a criminal investigation into actions taken by former President Donald Trump in an attempt to influence the election results in Georgia, as reported by NPR. The efforts include a phone call made by Trump during which he requested Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “find” enough […]

In an interview with Fox New on Friday, Republican Party Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida praised Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for holding a fiery press conference, Mediaite reported. Greene held the conference in response to House Democrats voting to remove her from House Education and Labor and Budget committees. She was ousted for repeatedly […]

On Friday, controversial Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia slammed Democratic Party politicians for voting to remove her from House committees. In a tweet, Greene called Democrats “morons” and said that she she doesn’t mind being removed from her posts because conservatives “have no say on committees anyway.” “I woke up early this morning […]

In a statement released on Friday, the Republican Jewish Coalition condemned GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, saying it was “offended and appalled” by her words and actions. The group began by noting it has never hesitated to condemn anti-Semitic comments, whether from Democrats or Republicans, and said that the same has to be […]

Republican strategists in Georgia are revealing their frustrations about working with former President Donald Trump during the senate run-offs that ended in upset Democratic victories. According to NPR, GOP insiders said that convincing Trump to campaign on behalf of candidates David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler was “like a hostage situation every day” due to the […]

Raphael Warnock has won the U.S. Senate runoff race in Georgia against Republican Kelly Loeffler, according to a leading pollster. Dave Wasserman took to Twitter at just after 9:30 p.m. EST to call the race in Warnock’s favor. Wasserman serves as editor for The Cook Political Report, analyzing congressional contests. He is considered one of […]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she believes Donald Trump should be impeached again after the release of an audio recording of him pressuring Georgia state officials into finding the votes necessary to overturn his loss in the state. On Sunday, The Washington Post released a full audio recording of the discussion between Trump, other senior White House […]

Joe Biden’s team issued a statement blasting Donald Trump for an “assault on American democracy” after an audio tape released on Sunday showed him pressuring Georgia state officials to overturn the election results there. As The Associated Press reported, the conversation recorded on Saturday showed Trump pleading with Georgia’s secretary of state, Republican Brad Raffensperger, […]

President Donald Trump wants the Republican candidates to lose the upcoming U.S. Senate runoff races in Georgia just to spite Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, a Democrat claims. Trump has been publicly at odds with McConnell for the past week, ever since the president’s surprise announcement that he did not support the bipartisan coronavirus stimulus […]

Lin Wood’s latest lawsuit seeking to challenge Georgia’s upcoming election is earning some mockery online. The lawyer, who has supported President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim the presidential election was stolen from him by filing a series of unsuccessful lawsuits, filed a new legal action that sought to challenge signature verification procedures and mail ballots […]

In his failed quest to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, President Donald Trump has relied on spreading evidence-free theories about widespread voter fraud. He also taken aim at prominent Republican politicians, especially governors who refused to intervene in the electoral process on his behalf. Two of them, Governors Brian Kemp of Georgia […]

A close confidante of former vice-presidential hopeful Keisha Lance Bottoms has revealed that the Atlanta mayor was offered a Cabinet-level position in the forthcoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden. However, the 50-year-old reportedly elected to decline the offer in order to focus on problems facing her current constituency. Per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the revelation was […]

In a tweet published on Thursday, President Donald Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr. took aim at Georgia Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. The fate of the U.S. Senate hinges on the two seats currently occupied by Republicans Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, but their challengers have shot up in the polls, reigniting Democratic […]

The fiery Sunday evening debate between Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia and Democrat Raphael Warnock has already garnered a lot of attention online, mainly due to Loeffler’s constant attack on her “radical liberal” opponent. Commentators were quick to take note of Loeffler’s tendency to repeat “radical liberal,” with many suggesting that she should have […]

In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany seemed to admit by accident that Democrat Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. According to an excerpt from the interview, which is available on Raw Story‘s YouTube channel, McEnany and host Pete Hegseth discussed President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn […]

President Donald Trump is holding a rally in Georgia meant to support Republican candidates in the U.S. Senate runoff races next month, but one author and prominent critic thinks that the president has a much more personal reason for going to the Peach State. Trump announced that he and first lady Melania Trump were headed […]

President Donald Trump has refused to concede the 2020 presidential election, spending the past few weeks alleging widespread voter fraud. Some Republicans fear that his claims could depress the conservative base and allow Democrats to win full control of the U.S. Congress, according to a Friday report from The Washington Examiner. On Saturday, Trump will […]

On Wednesday, MeidasTouch, a super PAC supportive of the Democratic Party, released a new advertisement taking aim at GOP Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. The ad, which can be viewed below, linked the two Republicans to the QAnon movement. Followers of the mysterious Q, as MeidasTouch pointed out, believe that the world is being […]

In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, President Donald Trump took aim at Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, The Hill reported. Speaking with anchor Maria Bartiromo, Trump slammed Peach State Republicans and floated several unproven theories about the 2020 presidential election, which he claims was rigged for Democrat Joe Biden. “Everything has to […]

During a campaign event on Saturday, Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia slammed Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock, Newsweek reported. Collins hit the campaign trail to express support for incumbent GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who will compete against Warnock — a minister at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church — in the January runoff. Collins ripped into Warnock […]

At a Saturday campaign stop in Marietta, Georgia, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel pleaded with voters to support GOP candidates in the two runoff elections in the state, CNN reported. Incumbent Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler will have to fend off formidable Democratic challengers. If they lose, the upper chamber will be […]

A distraught man called into Rush Limbaugh’s talk radio show on Friday, slamming Republican Party leaders and saying that he would be willing to die for President Donald Trump. According to a video clip (which can be viewed below) posted by John Whitehouse, news director at the watchdog group Media Matters for America, the caller […]

President Donald Trump has once again voiced his displeasure with the process by which votes are being recounted by hand in Georgia. His latest criticism of the state’s efforts to confirm its results from the November 3 general election came via Twitter on Saturday. Trump also continued to espouse his belief that radical left Democrats […]

An Atlanta-area election worker has reportedly gone into hiding after a viral video falsely claimed he was seen throwing away ballots. As the New York Post reported, a video circulated this week that showed the election worker crumpling up a piece of paper and throwing it away while processing ballots. The incident was seen on […]

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Friday morning that the state will undertake a recount of the votes cast in the 2020 presidential election. Speaking to reporters in Atlanta, Raffensperger said there were a little fewer than 5,500 votes remaining to count across Gwinnett, Floyd, Cherokee and Cobb counties, in addition to 8,890 military […]

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has overtaken Donald’s Trump’s lead in Georgia by just 917 votes. The ballots counted in favor of the Democratic candidate stand at 2,449,371 against the 2,448,454 cast for the incumbent president, per WPXI News. The 2020 presidential election race is virtually even as the president and former vice president battle […]

In an interview with Fox News broadcast on Wednesday, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that he expects President Donald Trump and the GOP to win Georgia. Polling averages suggest that Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are neck-and-neck in the once firmly red state, but Gingrich said that the polls are “just […]

On Tuesday, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden paid a visit to the state of Georgia, where he vowed to unite the nation, The Hill reported. Speaking in the small town of Warm Springs, Biden cast President Donald Trump as a demagogue who divides the American people. “Time and again throughout our history we’ve seen charlatans, […]

Joe Biden has moved into the lead in Georgia, a state that is normally deep-red. A new poll showed him with a 7-point lead over Donald Trump, The Hill reported. On Wednesday, a Quinnipiac University survey found that 51 percent of voters in the Peach Tree State favored the former vice president, while 44 percent […]

Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park, which features a bald rock face adorned with the carved images of Confederate generals, has closed in advance of a planned protest that officials feared could turn violent. As WAGA-TV reported, “several” far-right groups, including some affiliated with the white supremacy movement, had planned to convene at the park for a […]

The Democratic Party of Georgia has sued its state’s election officials over the long lines that voters faced during multiple recent elections, most notably the June primary, in which some people waited for hours to cast their vote. As the Associated Press reported, the lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in federal court in Atlanta, alleges […]

John Lewis had reportedly died at the age of 80. The Civil Rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman reportedly passed away on Friday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. His death led to a number of tributes from those who praised his work in fighting for voting rights and against segregation, which started when he […]

According to a Friday report from The Hill, Democrats believe that the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Joe Biden, could turn the state of Georgia blue in November. In 2016, President Donald Trump won Georgia by around five points, receiving 200,000 more votes than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The president’s campaign is reportedly spending […]

Stone Mountain, a Georgia Confederate monument that, like South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore, is carved into the side of a mountain, is facing calls for its destruction, Reuters reported. Across the country, in the wake of the George Floyd protests, statues honoring men who fought for the Confederacy have been brought under scrutiny. Opponents say that […]

Stacy Talbert is a sheriff’s deputy in McIntosh County, Georgia, who recently shared an emotional video of herself crying after a bad experience at a McDonald’s drive thru. Talbert, who ordered a McMuffin, explained that she felt she couldn’t take it because she did not watch it being made. Now she’s clarifying what she meant, […]

Garrett Rolfe, the Atlanta police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks twice in the back during an altercation at a Wendy’s in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, was previously reprimanded for using excessive force, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Tuesday. In October of 2017, Rolfe was given a written reprimand for excessive force relating to an incident […]

In an interview with ABC News broadcast on Sunday, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams dismissed the “false choice” between defunding and reforming police, The Hill reported. Abrams appeared on This Week to discuss progressive calls to defund law enforcement, calls which intensified following the death of George Floyd. Floyd died of asphyxiation after a […]

Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Alene took to Twitter to condemn the election issues experienced in Georgia’s primary election on Tuesday. The University of Alabama law professor made a bold claim about the Republican Party after a variety of problems came to light when residents in the Peach State went to the polls to cast their […]

Former Georgia Bulldogs quarterback Jake Fromm engaged in “textbook racism,” according to Undisputed‘s Shannon Sharpe. In Friday’s segment, which Sharpe posted on Twitter, the former Denver Broncos superstar explained why he also believes there are going to be more incidents like Fromm’s over the next few months. During the segment in question, Sharpe expressed his […]

A preliminary hearing for three Georgia men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery began on Thursday morning and some chilling details emerged. Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan are facing charges in Arbery’s death, and testimony revealed new information about the chase and shooting. CNN shared that Special Agent Richard Dial, who works for […]

Two police officers from the Atlanta Police Department in Georgia were fired after a video of them forcing a black couple out of their car and tasing them went viral, local affiliate CBS46 reported. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that the two officers were terminated from their jobs at the APD during a press […]

A video of a purported “Georgia Child Militia” hit Twitter early Saturday morning, drawing sharp rebukes from critics on the site. Among those who expressed dismay over seeing four children dressed in riot gear and standing outside an Atlanta Mall was Chicago Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa. After seeing the video, he posted on Twitter that Georgia […]

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms spoke out against violent protesters in the city on Friday, telling them to “go home” and saying that their actions are “disgracing the life of George Floyd.” Widespread unrest broke out in the city this week as part of nationwide protests against the death of Floyd in police custody in […]

Lee Merritt, a lawyer representing the family of Ahmaud Arbery, spoke on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday about the involvement of Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) in the high-profile case. As reported by Breitbart, Merritt said the DOJ has been “very responsive” to the case, which he noted is one that can “easily get lost” […]

Georgia officials are asking the public to assist them in tracking an invasive species of lizards that can grow up to four feet long, according to CNN. The lizard is known as the Argentine black and white tegu, and wildlife officials are working to eradicate them from the area, where they pose a significant threat […]

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the handling of the Ahmaud Arbery case amid allegations that a local prosecutor may have prevented an arrest. As WTOC reported, the Georgia attorney general’s office released a statement on Sunday asking the Justice Department to help in investigating potential communication […]

Two local elected officials say that a Georgia district attorney refused to allow police to make arrests after the death of Ahmaud Arbery, with the controversy surrounding his death now finding its way to investigators. Arbery was killed in a February 23 shooting in the coastal community of Brunswick. Footage released this week showed him […]

Jay Patel of Duluth, Georgia is suing e-cigarette company Juul after his vaping habit nearly cost him his life. He first started vaping in 2015, believing it to be safe. However, he would later end up in the hospital on a ventilator, according to GPB News. Patel, who is 38 years old, was previously healthy […]

In an interview with Elle published on Wednesday, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said that she would be an “excellent” running mate for former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic White House nominee. Speaking with the magazine’s Melissa Harris-Perry, Abrams said she “would be honored” to be selected as a vice-presidential nominee, explaining […]

A woman from Atlanta, Georgia, died after a freak accident caused her to be struck by a utility pole — only moments after she survived a car wreck. Early Thursday morning, Keisha Edwards was driving on Woodruff Farm Road in Columbus, Georgia, with a male companion passenger, as reported by local news WRBL. The 26-year-old […]