ATLANTA — Georgia’s Republican electors all cast their ballots for Donald Trump on Tuesday declaring him the presidential winner.
More than 150 million Americans cast their ballots for president last month, but it’s just the 538 electors who actually elected the president when they all met across the country on Tuesday.
The drama-free meeting is in stark contrast to four years ago when the GOP electors met to cast ballots for Trump which Fulton County prosecutors said was illegal.
Georgia GOP Chair Josh McKoon led the meeting of the 16 Republican electors as they gathered inside the state Senate chambers to cast their votes for Donald Trump and JD Vance.
It went pretty much according to plan with very little drama.
“It’s unanimous. 16 votes for the next president of the United States Donald J. Trump,” McKoon said.
Afterward, the electors told Channel 2’s Richard Elliot that they were excited about the process.
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“Today was a historic day for Georgia, for the United States, and we’re so very blessed to live in this country,” elector Jason Thompson said.
But even McKoon brought up the events of four years ago.
We were there as Republican so-called false electors met in defiance of the election results and cast their ballots for Trump then transmitted them to Washington, something prosecutors said was illegal.
A grand jury indicted all but one of the Georgia electors on election interference charges. Many accepted a plea deal.
But some, including former GOP Chair David Shafer remain criminal defendants in the case.
McKoon insisted the prosecutions are politically motivated and that top party attorneys told those 2020 electors to meet to allow Trump’s election lawsuit to move forward.
“When the history of 2020 is written, the people wearing the black hats are going to be the prosecutors and the judges that allowed this to get wildly out of control,” McKoon said.
There was no comment from the Fulton County DA’s Office for this story, but Georgia Democrats said, “Republicans new-found confidence in our elections should put an end to their mass voter challenges, partisan election rule changes, and the stop the steal conspiracies that have come to define their party.”
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