Posted on 12/16/2020 6:35:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Prepared with his signature whiteboard, Republican strategist Karl Rove assessed the accuracy of Stacey Abrams’s claims about the state of the Senate runoff races in Georgia, arguing she’s “either misleading or she’s uninformed.”
On Monday, the former gubernatorial candidate said there’s an upward trend for Democrats so far.
"This is a state that is almost evenly divided. The presidential election was decided by fewer than 12,000 votes. But what's at stake isn't divisive, what's at stake is relief for our communities," she said.
Abrams said that 1.2 million Georgians have requested absentee ballots. Of that 1.2 million, she said 85,000 of those applications for mail-in ballots come from voters who didn't cast ballots in November. (CBS)
Asked by Fox News’s Martha MacCallum how Republicans are feeling in the state, Rove said, “Well, I think pretty good,” before pivoting to address Abrams’s numbers.
“She is either misleading or she’s uninformed,” Rove said. “She just said that there were 1.2 million people who’d requested a ballot, a mail-in ballot for the runoff, and that 1.3 million had done so in November. That’s not correct.”
He went on to explain: “In November, 1,740,795 people requested a mail-in ballot; 1,362,369 — actually exercised it, voted by mail, so today, the requests are half a million less, a third less than they were for the November election, and what you also need to remember is 600,000 of the people on the list for mail-in ballots, 600,000 of that 1.7 million are automatically on the list. They are on the list for a long time. They sign up for permanent mail-in ballots, so they’re counted as a request, but we don’t know whether or not they are actually going to vote.”
Karl Rove 'mystified' by Stacey Abrams' Georgia mail-in ballot count https://t.co/wxxnEcFNOw— Leah Barkoukis (@LeahBarkoukis) December 16, 2020
Rove said Abrams’s “implication” was that 1.2 million had already voted, which he argued was wrong, because only 52 percent of those who voted in the November election have returned their ballots so far.
“I don’t know what her deal was there except to sort of raise expectations that they were already in the lead, but this is a fight to the finish and the Republicans are doing pretty good right now, they’ve got a long way to go,” he said.
Hate to admit it but he was right.
‘Rove had Trump being reele3cted in a landslide’
He was right. What is your point?
Good Catch...Landslide.
The GA Senate races won’t amount to a hill of beans once Flimsey Grahamnesty, Micro Rubio and the rest of the Bush League Republicans give the Democrats a permanent majority with amnesty for illegal aliens.
Could be, as of now Mitch and the GOP have not made an adult reason why people should keep him as majority leader. They have not outlined exactly what they will do for Trump supporters.
Right.
I was going to say something similar, but something a little more ‘colorful’ about Rove-boy.
The moderators would have probably cancelled my post anyway so you saved me from that.
They have told us what they are going to do, they are promising to give away our country.
If he surrender-monkeys like Karl Rove, he deserves the position as Dem barista.
Then they shouldn't be surprised if they lose the majority.
Stacey Abrams’s knows if it worked for Biden it can work for me.
Democrats have the logic of a rock.
In fairness, he probably was.
He did win a landslide. Eliminate the fraud and he won PA, WI, GA, MI and NV and, probably, AZ.
THen he was right. Trump WAS re-elected in a landslide. Then Biden was elected by Dominion Voting machines.
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