By Dave Andrusko
As we promised, NRL News Today will keep you updated on the pivotal Senate run-off races in Georgia January 5th.
Pro-life Republican incumbents Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are matched up against pro-abortion Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. There would be 50 pro-abortion Democrats in the Senate and 50 Republicans , if both Loeffler and Perdue lose, leaving the Vice President (as President of the Senate) with the tie-breaking vote. The stakes are enormous.
We’ll talk momentarily about the Sunday debate between Sen. Loeffler and pro-abortion Rev. Warnock which had very strong back and forth exchanges over abortion.
First, some very helpful quotes from Byron York, of the Washington Examiner, who emphasized in his Daily Memo Tuesday how hard pro-life President Trump campaigned for Sens. Loeffler and Perdue at a Saturday rally. This in distinction to the lie spun by the numerous Trump haters in the media who wrote as if the significance of the runoff was a mere side issue to the President and his ongoing legal challenges to the vote count in many states.
Here are a few samples from “Trump in Georgia. ‘Get Out and vote.’”
1. President Trump “talked a lot about the Senate races, stressed the importance of the races, and pushed repeatedly for Georgians to vote in the runoffs.”
2. “For his part, the president started focusing on the Senate race early in his speech, York wrote. “’There’s never been a case where a state has had this prominence in Senate races because they’re never together,’ he said, pointing to Georgia’s odd circumstances of having two Senate contests on a runoff ballot at the same time. ‘This is something that’s very important and you have to get out and you have to vote…David and Kelly are running against radical Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock…You must go vote and vote early starting December 14th. You have to do it.’”
3. “Behind the president the campaign had placed a giant sign: REQUEST YOUR ABSENTEE BALLOT RIGHT NOW! ‘If you aren’t planning to vote by mail, vote early in-person or vote on Election Day,’ Trump said. ‘Whatever you do, I need each of you, every one of you, your friends, your family, to go and vote.’”
4. York continued, “Of course Trump talked about his contention that there was massive voter fraud in the presidential election. But he kept coming back to the Senate race. ‘The answer to the Democrat fraud is not to stay home,’ he said. ‘That’s what Nancy Pelosi and Schumer, that’s what they want you to do, stay at home, just stay at home. If you want to do something to them — I don’t want to use the word ‘revenge,’ but it is a certain revenge to the Democrats — you show up and vote in record numbers. That’s what you have to do.’”
As we have written many times since November 3, President Trump received more than 10 million additional votes in 2020 over his 2016 total. His massive rallies fired up supporters in a number of key states.
It is no accident, therefore, that Republicans made a sizeable dent in the Democrats’ majority in the House of Representatives and experienced huge gains in some statehouses. These advances are in part because of the sheer energy and get-out-the-vote prowess of President Trump’s campaign.
When Sens. Loeffler and Perdue carry the day next month, we will look back at the rally and see how President Trump would not allow anyone to distract from the central issue in Georgia and control of the Senate: the two January 5th runoffs.
Reporting for CNS, Patrick Goodenough began his story about the Sunday debate in Atlanta by observing
Loeffler twice accused Raphael Warnock, the pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, of using the Bible to justify abortion – without drawing a reaction, until the moderator, Fox 5 Atlanta’s Russ Spencer, pressed him to “respond to the abortion issue in particular.”
When he did, Warnock did not refer to the Bible, focusing instead of the issue of a woman’s right to decide whether or not to abort her baby, and the inappropriateness in his view of the government having a say in the matter.
“Listen, I have a profound reverence for life, and an abiding respect for choice,” he said. “The question is, whose decision is it? And I happen to think that a patient’s room is too small a place for a woman, her doctor, and the U.S. government. I think that’s too many people in the room.”
Sen. Loeffler would have none of that evasion:
In her comments, Loeffler said Warnock had “used the Bible to justify abortion,” adding, “I’m not going to stand by and let Georgians not know who my opponent is, how radical his views are, and how he would fundamentally change our country. He’s out of step with Georgia’s values.”
Sen. Loeffler would have none of that evasion:
In her comments, Loeffler said Warnock had “used the Bible to justify abortion,” adding, “I’m not going to stand by and let Georgians not know who my opponent is, how radical his views are, and how he would fundamentally change our country. He’s out of step with Georgia’s values.”