Elections

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

Published

8 months ago

April 20, 2021

Staff Writer

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

Biden’s Poor Polling and Harris’ Low Electability Rating Could Have Democrats Considering ‘Nuclear Option’

Behind-the-scenes discussion of how Democrats could arrive at a third option for the next election is underway

Published

3 days ago

December 1, 2021

Staff Writer

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With polls consistently showing a poor approval rating for President Joe Biden at below 40 percent, and a recent poll put Kamala Harris’ electability at only 28 percent, Democrats are in full panic mode.

“Behind-the-scenes discussion of how Democrats could arrive at a third option for the next election is underway. Operatives are preparing for the possibility of a contested presidential primary in which other would-be nominees take on Ms. Harris, but that could be damaging for the party” reports the Telegraph.

Therefore, Democrats are allegedly whispering about a potential “nuclear option” that would call for current Vice President Harris to be nominated to the Supreme Court. The Telegraph writes that “while the scenario is highly improbable, and perhaps a reflection of a Washington rumor mill in overdrive, the fact it has come up at all shows the depths of the predicament the Biden administration currently finds itself in, amid rising inflation, a stalled domestic agenda, and foreign policy disasters.”

The theory in question would call for President Biden to nominate Harris to the Supreme Court in the event a seat opens in the next three years during his administration. Biden could then use “Section 2 of the 25thAmendment to nominate a more popular vice president”, adds the Telegraph.

Under Section 1 of the 25th Amendment, that new vice president could assume the presidency if Biden were to step down while president. They would then become the Democratic nominee in the 2024 presidential election. That same individual could also be the presumptive Democratic nominee in 2024 if Biden chooses not to run for re-election.

One piece of information that is wetting Democrats’ whistle is that current Supreme Court Justice Breyer has said he does not “want to stay on the Supreme Court until I die.”

The Telegraph notes that “the discussion over potential successors to Mr. Biden is highly unusual less than a year into an administration.”