Even lawyers for the Trump campaign found it surprising that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) made a surprise appearance at the White House Christmas party Friday (Dec. 18) amid a national outcry against election theft.
In a tweet on social media Friday night, Kemp said he traveled to the White House on Friday with his daughter to attend the Christmas party.
“Lucy and I had a great time at the White House Christmas party today. Merry Christmas to all!” Kemp tweeted.
Georgia has seen multiple vote counting scandals erupt in the 2020 election, with officials’ past three counts lacking transparency and not checking signatures, sparking a high level of public distrust in the state’s election results.
Georgia’s first vote count was questioned for the existence of fraudulent ballots, and the surveillance video of Farm State Stadium later revealed that the ballot officials secretly counted the ballots without supervision; the second time, the Secretary of State did not allow verification of signatures and asked for the same votes to be counted again; the third vote count, the Secretary of State still did not agree to verify the signatures and counted the ballots again.
President Trump has called on Kemp to verify the signatures on the ballots in the past; after the three counts in Georgia, Trump publicly criticized Kemp, saying he was a Republican in name only, and demanded that he and the state’s secretary of state take responsibility for changing the election rules without permission, causing the election to be lost.
After weeks of pressure, Georgia’s governor and secretary of state announced on Monday (14) that they would match the signatures of voters on absentee ballot envelopes in Cobb County, and the results are expected to come out within 2 weeks.
Kemp heads to the White House for a gala Trump lawyers didn’t expect
The news that Kemp was invited to the White House gala surprised Jenna Ellis, a lawyer for the Trump campaign.
Ellis replied to Kemp’s tweet on the 18th saying, “Really?”
Ellis then included a photo of her and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani attending the White House Christmas party on the same night.
Ellis replied to a message about Georgia’s signature check in the early morning hours of the 19th, saying that the reason why she waited so long for Georgia to agree to the signature check was because “they were running out of time.
At present, Trump’s legal team has filed 50 election-related lawsuits that have all been dismissed, not because of the cases themselves, but because they question the standing of the parties bringing the cases.
The Trump campaign’s lawyer Giuliani previously revealed that President Trump has approved Plan B. The legal team will soon file adjusted lawsuits in multiple states, with President Trump as the victim of the lawsuit.
Georgia has produced two rare Electoral College votes in accordance with the election process on the 14th, with one group of state elected Democratic Electoral College votes for Democratic candidate Joe Biden and Senator He Jinli, and the other group of Republican Electors announcing “alternative” votes for President Trump and Vice President Pence.
Next, the Electoral College votes will be counted during a joint session of the House and Senate on Jan. 6, 2021. If one person in each chamber challenges a state’s results, it will trigger a two-hour exit from both chambers to discuss the “alternative” vote separately; however, the state will not be invalidated until both chambers receive a majority vote in opposition and both chambers vote in favor of the “alternative” vote. The official ballot results were submitted.
In a previous interview with Newsmax, Ellis said that President Trump’s legal team will continue to pursue legal action over the 2020 presidential election results even if Congress confirms Biden’s Electoral College victory next January.
In addition, Georgia’s two runoff Senate races are scheduled for Jan. 5 (the day before the joint session), and two Republican senators, Senator Loeffler and Senator Perdue, are seeking re-election, and the results will be directly related to whether Republicans can retain a majority in the Senate in the next Congress.
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