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Walker and Warnock Neck and Neck in Georgia Senate Race
ATLANTA—Republican challenger Herschel Walker sought to overtake a thin lead by Sen. Raphael Warnock, the incumbent Democrat, in Georgia's hotly contested race for U.S. Senate. With 98% of the vote counted early Wednesday, Warnock had 49.4% to Walker's 48.5%, with each candidate garnering about 1.9 million votes, the Associated Press reported. In Georgia, if no… -
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Kemp Defeats Abrams in Rematch to Keep Georgia Governor’s Seat
ATLANTA—After a close race four years ago that Democrats claimed was stolen, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, convincingly defeated Democrat rival Stacey Abrams in a rematch Tuesday. Georgia voters gave Kemp a victory of 54% to Abrams’ 45% in unofficial results, with 84% of the vote counted. That’s a significant improvement on Kemp’s narrow… -
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White House Sticks to ‘Voter Suppression’ Claim in Georgia, Despite Soaring Early Turnout
Georgia election laws supposedly were so restrictive that, in January, President Joe Biden traveled to Atlanta with a stark warning. “Jim Crow 2.0 is about two insidious things—voter suppression and election subversion,” Biden said. “That’s not hyperbole. That’s a fact.” However, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Thursday that 1.13 million Georgians already had… -
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A Tale of 2 States: Georgia, Pennsylvania, and the Case for Election Integrity Laws
Georgia held its primary election Tuesday night while Pennsylvania held its primary election over a week ago. The contrast could not be more clear: Georgia held an efficient election where the results were known just hours after polls closed, while Pennsylvania’s Senate result is still in dispute. Between the two states, this year’s elections are… -
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Record Voter Turnout in Georgia Primary Elections Debunks ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Nonsense
What the left calls “voter suppression” apparently leads to record-high voter turnout. According to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, as of May 20, 857,401 Georgians had voted during the state’s three-week early voting period for the Georgia primary elections. This number is up substantially from just a few years ago. It’s the first election… -
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Georgia Leads the Way in Protecting Parents’ Rights
I’ve got Georgia on my mind. On April 28, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law House Bill 1178, the “Parents’ Bill of Rights.” This is a big deal. In addition to providing Georgia parents with strong legal protections to ensure that they are able to 1. know what their children are learning in public… -
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‘This Should Not Be Controversial’: Georgia Governor Signs Bills to Banish Wokeness From Schools
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed seven education bills into law Thursday taking aim at wokeness in schools, including legislation that limits discussions about race in classrooms and transgender students’ ability to compete in women’s sports. The bills included Georgia’s Parents’ Bill of Rights, or HB 1178, which “provides greater transparency to parents and legal guardians regarding what… -
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Georgia Moves to Protect Conservatives, and Others, From Big Tech Censorship
In the face of Big Tech’s overwhelming censorship of conservatives, states are beginning to take matters into their own hands. The Georgia Senate last Tuesday passed SB 393, a bill that would prohibit social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter from deleting posts and banning users who live or work in Georgia based solely… -
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Meet the Georgia State Representative Fighting to Keep CRT Out of Schools
As critical race theory continues to attract national attention, one Georgia lawmaker is trying to pass legislation to ensure it stays out of the Peach State’s schools. On Jan. 14, Georgia state Rep. Brad Thomas introduced a bill to ban concepts like critical race theory and The New York Times’ 1619 Project from being taught in schools. “The legislation… -
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Democrats ‘Want People to Be Dependent on Government,’ Georgia Governor Says
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says his state remains strong economically because he opened it up for business more quickly than most other states. “They are not going to sit in their basement and lose everything that they have worked decades for,” the Republican governor said of Georgia business owners in remarks at a “Save Our… -
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Watchdog: ‘Unknown’ Ballots in Georgia, Pennsylvania Surpass Biden’s Margin of Victory There
Georgia and Pennsylvania, two of the most closely contested states in last year’s presidential election, both logged a high number of unaccounted-for mail-in ballots, according to new reports from an election watchdog group. The Public Interest Legal Foundation determined this week that Pennsylvania had 15,175 undeliverable mail-in ballots and 425,606 “unknown” or unaccounted-for ballots. Another… -
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The Truth About Georgia’s Voting Law
There are a lot of partisan political issues out there, but election integrity shouldn’t be one of them. What could be more basic to the very concept of representative government than having citizens trust that an election—whether it be for president or dog catcher—was fairly won or fairly lost? Yet in the recent past, this… -
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Justice Department’s Lawsuit Against Georgia Is Completely Partisan
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, headed by new, radical Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, filed a lawsuit on June 25 against Georgia. The Justice Department claimed the state’s recently enacted election reform law, SB 202, violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act because it discriminates against black Georgia voters. The complaint reads like a press… -
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Georgia Small Businesses Sue MLB Over Moving All-Star Game
Woke corporations are learning the hard way that their social activism has a price. Monday, Major League Baseball was slapped with a $1.1 billion lawsuit for pulling the 2021 all-star game out of Atlanta. The Job Creators Network, an organization that advocates for small businesses, filed the lawsuit—arguing that the MLB’s decision cost Georgia businesses $100 million… -
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What Media Got Wrong on Georgia’s New Election Law
Georgia state Sen. John Albers says the media got a lot wrong in covering Georgia’s election legislation. “The media missed most of it,” Albers told “The Daily Signal Podcast.” “They had written up their talking points before the bill was even passed. In fact, even before the bill was created, they already had a narrative… -
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Georgia Lawmaker Reflects on Trip to Southern Border
Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., recently returned from a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border. On his flight back, Clyde sat next to illegal immigrants. “The taxpayers are paying for this,” Clyde says of illegal immigrants flying to new homes in the U.S. with the assistance of the Transportation Security Administration. “This is federal government-funded activity. Not… -
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This Lawmaker Lost a Job Over Georgia’s New Election Law. Here’s His Story.
Georgia state Rep. Barry Fleming lost his job over the state’s recently passed election reform legislation. The Hancock County Board of Commissioners voted 4-0 to ask Fleming to resign as county attorney “after pressure from citizens opposed to his work on proposed voting law changes,” Georgia Public Broadcasting reported March 10. Critics of Georgia’s new law… -
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Read Rep. Burgess Owens’ Explanation of Why Georgia Law Isn’t at All Like Jim Crow Laws
Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, speaking during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, condemned recent attacks on Georgia’s election law that characterized it as a “Jim Crow” measure. Read the lightly edited transcript, below, or watch the video above. Thank you, Chairman [Dick] Durbin, Ranking Member [Chuck] Grassley, and the members of the committee for the… -
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EXCLUSIVE: 21 Black Leaders Denounce the Left’s Lies About Georgia Election Law
Twenty-one civil rights leaders and prominent black conservatives defended Georgia’s new election law in a letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, rejecting opponents’ comparisons to Jim Crow laws. “It has become clear that even well-intentioned critics of the law simply have no idea what the law is,” the black leaders write in the letter,… -
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We Hear You: Georgia Elections, Baseball, and Woke Corporations
Editor's note: The misrepresentation of Georgia's new election law by politicians and activists on the left is a serious matter to The Daily Signal's audience. Here's a sampling of your reaction from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Thank you for the many well-researched and incisive articles covering the lies and hypocrisy in…