President Donald Trump‘s White House adviser Peter Navarro has called on Georgia officials to delay the Senate runoff by a month to allow more time to address the state’s high-profile election fraud allegations.
The two elections, scheduled for Jan. 5, will determine which party will control the U.S. Senate. For six years prior to that, Republicans held a majority of seats in the Senate. Currently, Georgia Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue will face Democratic challengers Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, respectively.
Navarro is the director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy. On Dec. 17, he released a report in his personal capacity on alleged election irregularities in key battleground states in the 2020 presidential election.
The report (pdf) illuminates election irregularities in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada that can be summarized at six key levels, including: outright voter fraud, ballot mishandling, disputed procedural foul play, Equal Protection Clause violations, voting machine irregularities and significant statistical anomalies.
“This is thousands of thefts across six levels and in six battleground states, not any single “Silver Bullet” (a metaphor for a strong, powerful, simple solution to a complex problem) election irregularity,” Navarro wrote in concluded, “While all six battleground states exhibit most or all six dimensions of election irregularities, each state may have a unique combination of issues that ‘matter most.'”
Navarro said Georgia’s election system faces six voting irregularities that will need to be addressed before the upcoming Senate runoff.
“We’re going to have to delay that election until February,” Navarro said in an interview with Real America’s Voice’s “Just the News” television program. Everything that’s described in my chart … that matrix, every check mark in those six layers, is a cesspool. And they’re doubling down on everything they didn’t do in the first election.”
He believes postponing the election will give more time to fix irregularities and restore confidence to Georgians who doubt the outcome of the November election.
“It’s going to be a lot harder,” Navarro said, “but if by Inauguration Day the public believes, based on the evidence, that we put an illegitimate, unjust president in office, that’s not going to be a good thing for years to come.”
Trump sent a similar message to the nation on Tuesday night. In a video, the president said, “We cannot allow a completely fraudulent election to stand. If this egregious fraud is not fully investigated and addressed, the 2020 election will forever be seen as illegitimate and the most corrupt election in our nation’s history.”
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, both Republicans, have said they believe Georgia’s election was reliable despite lawsuits filed in the state by the Trump campaign and other third parties alleging a variety of voting irregularities and eyewitnesses who believe those irregularities will call the results into question.
Laffensperger announced on Dec. 17 that he would review signatures on mail-in ballots in 159 counties across the state to restore public confidence in the mail-in system, but claimed that the examination “will not change the outcome of the November election.
Kemp said Wednesday that the results of the signature audit should be released by Thursday at the latest.
Republicans have won 50 Senate seats and Democrats 48, including two independent senators with Democratic caucus ties. Republicans need to win only one more seat to gain a majority in the Senate. However, if the Democrats win two seats, it will be a 50-50 situation, at which point the vice president, who is also the president of the Senate, will have a crucial vote.
Members of Congress will hold a joint meeting in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 to count the Electoral College votes.
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