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The New York Daily News reports: President Trump on Monday derided Georgia’s GOP leadership as turncoat “Republicans in name only” even as the party scrambles to stay unified for the crucial upcoming U.S. Senate run-off elections. Spewing unfounded claims about his loss in the state, Trump trashed Gov. Brian Kemp and top GOP lieutenants for failing to back his dead-end …

Talking Points Memo reports: President Trump told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a tweet early Wednesday that it was too soon to “give up” after the Kentucky Republican conceded that President-elect Joe Biden won November’s election. “Republican Party must finally learn to fight,” Trump added. “People are angry!” In his tweet, the president shared an article titled “Trump’s allies …

Mediaite reports: Mark Levin — the Fox News host and enormously popular radio host who has spread conspiracy theories about the election — said it’s time for the veteran Republican senator to retire. Charlie Kirk, the founder of pro-Trump youth group Turning Point USA, criticized McConnell for the tone of his remarks. “You typically don’t use the term ‘congratulations’ when …

Roll Call reports: Sen. Rand Paul is delaying a Senate vote to send the president the annual defense policy legislation over the Kentucky Republican’s concerns that it would restrict U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan. But the measure is unlikely to result in anything of the sort. Paul, a longtime critic of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, told reporters Thursday …

Right wing columnist Erick Erickson writes: Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, is under a federal investigation and would love a presidential pardon. His lawsuit is just more performative leg humping by someone desperate to curry favor with President Trump. The various attorneys general who have joined his lawsuit all want to either get re-elected or seek higher office. …

The New York Times reports: The quarreling, which has powerful state Republicans openly insulting one another, is bringing attention to the challenges the party faces as Arizona shifts from a Republican bastion to a battleground state. Kelli Ward, the chair of the Arizona Republican Party, told Mr. Ducey on Twitter last week to #STHU — the hashtag for “shut the …

Mediaite reports: “The reality is that this president right now is fighting — and let’s be straightforward about it — he’s fighting all alone,” Dobbs continued. “And Ted Cruz has stepped up to say he’ll argue before the Supreme Court. Why on God’s green Earth wouldn’t the White House jump on it?” Miller pivoted to talking about state legislatures, but …

Via email from right wing columnist Erick Erickson: On social media, more than 10,000 people have shared the results of a forensic audit in Ware County, Georgia. I keep getting asked about it. Voting machines were seized and a court-ordered audit happened. It turns out the machines really were throwing votes for Trump to Biden. In the test of the …

“It’s curious that Bill Barr, the head of the DOJ, would affirmatively make a statement regarding a pending investigation. As a former prosecutor for over three decades, I and virtually everyone similarly situated, know that DOJ guidelines do not allow comment on investigations. We need answers. We need action. We need justice. And you Mr. Barr are so deep in …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump will return to the campaign trail on Saturday – not, notionally at least, in his quixotic and doomed attempt to deny defeat by Joe Biden, but in support of two Republicans who face January run-offs which will decide control of the US Senate. The president and first lady Melania Trump were due to appear at …

“No, Laura, they’re not that stupid. What they want is focus on the here and now. We must sort out exactly what happened on November 3rd and the days after. We’re about one month after the alleged crimes happen. “And Laura Ingraham, this is called a sine qua non — this, before that. OK?  “This is essential. No, they’re not …

Mediaite reports: Fox News primetime anchor Laura Ingraham expressed shock at calls from some of President Donald Trump’s legal surrogates to boycott the upcoming Georgia special election and angrily dismissed — though not by name — those behind them as “stupid” during an interview with Georgia Senator David Perdue. “Do the suburbanites need a reunited Republican party or do they …

Newsweek reports: Republican congressman Dan Crenshaw called the pro-Trump lawyer L. Lin Wood a “grifter” and a “Democrat” after the attorney told Georgia voters not to turn out for the Senate runoff elections at the start of next year. Posting on social media on Thursday night, Crenshaw accused Wood of wanting “donations for his legal fees” and for Republicans to …

The New York Daily News reports: It might be time for Attorney General William Barr to start packing his bags. President Trump suggested Thursday that he may fire Barr over his affirmation that there’s no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. “Ask me that in a number of weeks from now,” Trump said in the Oval Office after …

It’s a full-on cultist-on-cultist war: Former House Speaker New Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Thursday said pro-Trump attorneys Lin Wood and Sidney Powell “are totally destructive” after they reportedly urged Georgia voters not to cast ballots in the pivotal Senate runoff elections in January. At an event on Wednesday, the attorneys reportedly told Georgians not to vote until their votes are “secure.” …

The Trump campaign has tweeted out this Breitbart article: Georgia-based attorney Lin Wood is getting lots of attention for urging supporters of President Donald Trump to break with the president and not vote for GOP Sens. David Perdue (R-GA) and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) in the upcoming January 5 runoff elections. Wood’s public comments run counter to President Trump’s own public …

Right wing columnist Erick Erickson writes: Standing on stage at a stop the steal rally, Attorney Lin Wood, urged Georgia Republican voters to stay home and refrain from supporting the GOP in the special election runoffs that will decide control of the United States Senate. Wood has a history of helping the Democrats. He funded John Edwards’s presidential campaign. He …

The Daily Beast reports: Remember in February when Attorney General Bill Barr trashed his department’s reputation to override the recommended prison term for Roger Stone and push for a much shorter sentence? Because, apparently, Stone has forgotten—and has gone on the attack against the AG. Trumpworld has reacted with fury to Barr’s statement Tuesday that there’s no evidence of voter …

Mediaite reports: Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs opened his show by accusing Attorney General Bill Barr of “appearing to join in with the radical Dems and the deep state and the resistance.” Dobbs went after Barr for being “absent for weeks” before bringing up the AG’s comments to the AP about how the Department of Justice has not seen any evidence …

Via press release from the Trump campaign: With all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn’t been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation.  We have gathered ample evidence of illegal voting in at least six states, which they have not examined. We have many witnesses swearing under oath they saw crimes being committed in connection with voter …