GOP Survey Finds Some GA Voters May Sit Out 2022

The New York Times reports:

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has supported exhaustive audits of the 2020 results to look for evidence of voting irregularities that repeated reviews have failed to produce. Still, she has told colleagues that she was surprised by a recent survey of Republican voters in her district.

The internal survey found that 5 percent of Republican voters said they would sit out the 2022 election if the state of Georgia did not conduct a forensic audit of the 2020 election — a demand that some of Mr. Trump’s hard-core supporters have made. Another 4 percent said they would consider sitting out the election absent an audit.

The possibility that nearly 10 percent of Republicans could sit out any election — even one in a solidly red district like the one held by Ms. Taylor Greene — was something Republican strategists said they found alarming.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has become notorious as MAGA world’s most unhinged ally in Congress—but, according to a new report, she was recently shocked to discover that she may be losing support from pro-Trump election conspiracy theorists in Georgia https://t.co/XIClruj0F8

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 18, 2021

By now, everyone’s heard of Trump’s memo suggesting that Republicans “will not be voting” in 2022 or 2024 if they don’t solve what he calls “The 2020 Election Fraud.” As he often does, Jimmy Kimmel had the best take: “I’m confused. Did Nancy Pelosi write this for him?”

— Duty To Warn ? (@duty2warn) October 17, 2021