On the night of August 7, 2008, Georgian forces started shelling the breakaway region of South Ossetia, where Russian peacekeepers were stationed. In response, the Russian military entered the area. Meanwhile, another breakaway region of Abkhazia announced a mobilization, fearing a renewal of fighting with Georgia. After five days, then-President …
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“I want to congratulate the Democratic Party and my opponent for this runoff win,” Perdue said in a statement on Friday, two days after Ossoff claimed victory in the crucial runoff vote. At 33, Ossoff will become the youngest US senator. His victory is more consequential than any personal milestone, …
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“Looks like they are setting up a big ‘voter dump’ against the Republican candidates. Waiting to see how many votes they need?” President Donald Trump tweeted. The president wrote in a follow-up tweet: “Just happened to have found another 4000 ballots from Fulton County. Here we go!” Trump was likely …
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With about 95 percent of the total vote in, incumbent David Perdue was ahead of his Democrat challenger Jon Ossoff by mere 0.4 percentage points, while Raphael Warnock led Republican Kelly Loeffler 50.2 percent to 49.8 percent, according to Edison Research. Democrats hope to win both seats in what was …
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One of the senators, Kelly Loeffler, waited until literally the 11th hour to announce her plans, saying in a statement Monday night that she will join in trying to block formalization of Biden’s victory when Congress convenes on Wednesday to certify electoral results from across the nation. “We must restore …
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“President @realDonaldTrump has filed two lawsuits – federal and state – against @GaSecofState. The telephone conference call @GaSecofState secretly recorded was a ‘confidential settlement discussion’ of that litigation, which is still pending,” David Shafer, Georgia Republican Party chairman, tweeted on Sunday, shortly after the Washington Post, the New York Times, …
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“I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state,” Trump appears to have said in a leaked Saturday call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. “We won the election, and it’s not fair to take it away from us like …
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Ossoff tweeted out a video Wednesday evening accusing Georgia’s two Senators — Loeffler and fellow Republican David Perdue — of using their offices to enrich themselves. Ossoff is running against Perdue, while Loeffler will face Democrat Raphael Warnock in a crucial January 5 runoff election that will decide whether President-elect …
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Video of the incident, which occurred back in March, was made public for the first time on Tuesday night, as it was reported on Fox’s Tucker Carlson Show. It showed an officer interviewing Warnock and his then-wife, Ouleye Ndoye, after she alleged that he ran over her foot with his …
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Gabriel Sterling, the Voting System Implementation Manager for Georgia’s Secretary of State, revealed that a woman listed his address as her own when voting in the 2020 presidential election, and that she had also requested an absentee ballot, using the same incorrect address, for the state’s upcoming Senate runoff contest. …
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