Elections
Vernon Jones: Gov. Kemp ‘cut and run’ on Trump

Vernon Jones, a former Democratic lawmaker in Georgia’s statehouse who’s running in 2022 against the state’s Republican governor as a Republican, accused him Monday of failing the Republican Party and lacking leadership.
Speaking to “The Sara Carter Show” podcast about Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Jones accused Kemp of working against former President Donald Trump. He also said Kemp did not hold former potential Democratic candidate Stacy Abrams accountable, and instead accused Kemp of working alongside Abrams at the expense of the Republican Party.
Jones claimed that evidence of election fraud in Georgia exists, telling host Sara Carter that there still needs to be election reform in order to ensure the sanctity of future elections.
“I wasn’t going to run this year again. I was just wanting to have the president get reelected because I think he deserved it, he earned it. And when I saw how they treated him in Georgia with our election fraud, if you will, and I saw how he was treated in other states, I couldn’t leave the battlefield,” he said.
“And then I saw my own governor, Gov. Brian Kemp, that this president [Trump] helped get elected—when I saw him cut and run, I’m like ‘What is going on?'” he said, possibly referencing Kemp’s refusal to overturn President Joe Biden’s narrow victory in the state, before alleging there was a “backroom deal” between Kemp, Stacey Abrams, and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
“But then when I realized […] he was a part of that backroom agreement with Stacey Abrams and the secretary of state [Brad Raffensperger], where they came up agreement on the executive side. They changed and manipulated our state election laws when only the members of the General Assembly can do that.”
Jones is likely referring to the consent decree—a legal settlement—signed by Raffensperger on March 6, 2020 that addressed accusations about a lack of statewide standards for judging signatures on absentee ballot envelopes, following a lawsuit by the Georgia Democratic Party arguing that minorities had been disproportionately impacted when their ballots were rejected. Abrams was supportive of the decree.
According to the Associated Press, the decree spelled out the details of the process, which required signature-matching.
Jones alleged Kemp was “afraid of” Abrams and that “he thought by having that agreement with her that she wouldn’t run again,” referencing the close 2018 gubernatorial race between the two that made Abrams a household name.
“He did not have the ability to go and change election laws, pandemic or not,” Jones charged. “Let me tell you, our Constitution does not say any event there’s a pandemic, then you can change election laws through executive an executive branch.”
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Elections
Trump, Rep Biggs: invoking the Alien Enemies Act to enable widespread deportation will ‘be necessary’

At a recent rally in Iowa, former President Donald Trump promised that if elected again in 2024, he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act to enable widespread deportation of migrants who have illegally entered the United States. Since President Joe Biden took office in January of 2021, over 6 million people have illegally entered the country.
Republican Representative Andy Biggs from border state Arizona, which is among the states suffering the greatest consequences from the Biden administration policies, lamented that Trump’s suggestion will be “necessary.”
Speaking on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show, Biggs stated “[I]t’s actually gonna have to be necessary.” Biggs then added his thoughts on how many more people will continue to cross the border under Biden: “Because by the time Trump gets back in office, you will have had over 10 million, in my opinion, over 10 million illegal aliens cross our border and come into the country, under the Biden regime.”
“And so when you start deporting people, and removing them from this country, what that does is that disincentivizes the tens of thousands of people who are coming,” Biggs went on. “And by the way, everyday down in Darién Gap, which is in Panama… over 5,000 people a day. [I] talk[ed] to one of my sources from the gap today. And I will just tell you, those people that you’ve seen come come in to Eagle Pass, over 7,000 in a three day period, most of those two weeks ago, were down crossing into the Darién Gap.”
“And those people… make their way up and they end up in the Eagle Pass [Texas], Del Rio area,” he continued. “So if you want to disincentivize them, you remove them from the country, which is why they remain in Mexico policy was so doggone effective at slowing down illegal border crossings.”
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