Why does he have such a hard on for Georgia?

[cilla4progress]

It won't even put him over!

[mucifer]

1. That's where the media is focused on now. he thrives on this kinda crap.

[hlthe2b]

2. Probably merely because his campaign never even considered a loss there.

The ultimate "injury."

[ProfessorGAC]

27. My First Though, As Well

Arizona is probably stuck in his throat, too. But, Georgia is a bigger bone.

[dchill]

3. It's probably about Ossoff and Warnock.

[Cha]

4. I was thinking on that, too.. maybe

it's bc Georgia has been such a reliable gop state & now with trump they're NOT!

[gratuitous]

5. He's fishing

It didn't work in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, or Nevada, so it's what he's got left. Isn't it curious how there was cheating on the vote only in states that Trump lost? No cheating in states where he won. Luckily, nobody in the media have spotted this odd trend.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. He considers any opening a chink in the armor

If he can eke out a victory, no matter how small, he will keep trying to wedge something else in that space, and so on.

[Kitchari]

19. Agree

Well said

[C_U_L8R]

7. We're just seeing a small sliver of his criminality.

Just imagine what you don't know. It's probably quite horrifying and even more illegal.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Probably several reasons:

1. GA has been a solid GOP state for years but this time it wasn't.
2. Black people voted in GA in record numbers and their votes got counted.
3. The GOP governor didn't do as he was told.
4. The media spotlight is on GA right now and he needs to be part of it.
5. He's a fascist and an asshole.

[Corgigal]

9. He's trying to crack one

swing state. Then he say the rest are all corrupt, see?

Trump thinking, I didn’t say it would be smart.

[Kid Berwyn]

25. Looking for the first to buy in.

Like selling apartments in a rehabbed building on a lousy location, getting that first one is really important.

Stupid, but Trump.

[Stallion]

9. Because the Same Phone Call is Being Made in Every Challenged State

[LisaL]

11. You are assuming he isn't trying to do the same in other states.

NT

[Doodley]

12. He wants to say at his rally tomorrow that it is being investigated. Similar to "Hilary Clinton

is being investigated." Similar to "I have two guys in Hawaii investigating Obama's birth certificate."

[Skittles]

13. because THAT loss was especially humiliating

first time in 30 years

WELL DONE, GEORGIA!

[mikeysnot]

14. If he can change one states EC votes

He doesn’t have to admit in his own words that he lost in a landslide. Like he claimed in 2016.

The EC totals are the same but flipped.

[Tommymac]

23. Actually I think Joe & Kamala may get 2 more, 306 to 304 because of faithless electors.

And a shit ton more popular votes.

Trump has been crapping hisself ever since.

[PJMcK]

15. Perhaps there's a strategy (of sorts)

Georgia is Trump's best bet to change the outcome. It has a Republican governor, a Republican Secretary of State and a Republican dominated legislature.

If he can get Georgia to change its outcome, then Trump could claim that other states need to "recalculate" their votes, too.

It won't work mostly because it would require illegal acts and no one wants to go to jail for Trump anymore.

I'm actually surprised Trump didn't offer Raffensperger a pardon if he'd do what Trump was asking. I guess Trump knew there were too many people on the call. I bet he's pissed that WaPo got ahold of the recording of the call!

[Hortensis]

16. :) All the above! I'll add that in 2018 he watched, with the rest of the planet,

GA Republicans blatantly steal the governor's race, and others. He probably assumed he'd have no problem getting the same Republicans to steal GA for him.

[DonCoquixote]

17. because it was a soldly GOP state

Where gov kemp used rally shady election practice to prevent Stacy Adams for getting in. The fact that voyers rejected him was a slap in the face.

[RockRaven]

18. He feels especially entitled to it because it was not considered a swing state previously.

Just extra entitlement on top of his usual entitlement.

[standingtall]

20. Your assuming he only tried this in Georgia

and I don't think that would be safe to assume, and if Georgia is the only place he tried this it's, because he didn't get what he wanted. If he would've been successful in Georgia he would've moved on to Arizona although Arizona has a Democratic Attorney General, but you get the point?

[cilla4progress]

26. Yes,

I do.

Hope there are more tapes.

Maybe he figures he's got some leverage there...

[Hugin]

21. We don't know what calls he's put through to other States such as AZ.

There are always rumblings, but, this is the first hard evidence other than his shakedown of Ukraine.

So, I'd say it's a given he's been flinging the phone poo at officials in other States and Congress members. He spends quite a bit of time on the phone.

[Blue_true]

34. Arizona and Michigan have Democratic Secretaries of State. Not sure about

Pennsylvania. But all three state have republican controlled House and Senates. My guess? Trump was hoping to get shenanigans pulled in Georgia to reverse that state for him, then he would put pressure on the House and Senate in Pennsylvania and either Arizona or Michigan to reduce Joe's total to below 270. I honestly can't believe that I am witnessing something like this in my lifetime, regardless of what some here want to believe, Bush won Florida in 2000 by around 500 votes - 97,000 people here wasted a vote on Nader.

[pat_k]

22. He threatened officials in other states too.

If forget which ones, but Georgia wasn't his only call. We just don't have recordings (so far).

[Progressive Jones]

24. Desperation. Sweaty, smelly desperation. nt

[haele]

28. Georgia was supposed to be red. Along with Arizona and Wisconsin.

With party loyalist and fellow sleeze Kemp in charge, and Georgia was actually close enough to recount, he knew he should have just won, no problem (like Kemp did). But the recount didn't go his way...

If Georgia had gone his way, he probably thinks he could have had the time to work over AZ and WI SoSs or legaslatures enough to overturn their elections, then judge shopped to get PA or MI blue district votes rejected.
Georgia ruined his plans, man...he just could have gotten away with it if not for Georgia...

[Stinky The Clown]

29. Two simple words: Black People

[marked50]

30. He hates Jimmy Carter

[Trenzalore]

31. There aren't GOP governors in the other states other than AZ

[Tarc]

32. GA has long been a red state; it going blue is a huge crack in Nixon's Southern Strategy

which the GOP have been coasting on for 50 years.

[ecstatic]

33. It's weird, right? It gives me pleasure to know that we're keeping him up all night

Just like he kept ME up all night during his failed "presidency."

Payback's a bitch, motherfucker!

We're going to have to get a restraining order soon. Some people need to learn when to let go.