Political Rewind

Friday on Political Rewind: Georgia Republicans continue to give space for debunked election fraud conspiracies from President Donald Trump and his allies. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr joined his counterparts in three other states in condemning Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s petition to have the U.S. Supreme Court throw out the votes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Ca...

Thursday on Political Rewind: Attempts to overturn November election results continue despite repeated setbacks and an absence of credible evidence. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is the latest Republican state official to receive a personal warning from President Donald Trump not to interfere with efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution...

Wednesday on Political Rewind: The schism between Georgia Republicans intensifies. State party chairman David Shafer is suing Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a last-ditch effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory here. Meanwhile, Sen. David Perdue and Sen. Kelly Loeffler endorsed a lawsuit from the Texas Attorney General calling for a delay to the certification of...

Tuesday on Political Rewind: President Donald Trump and his allies continue to spin conspiracy theories aimed at overturning the outcome of the vote. Georgia continues to be a prime target, despite repeated failures to change the results here. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced that a third count of the ballots confirms Biden won the state by a margin of almost 12,000 votes. Meanwhile...

Today on Political Rewind: Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Democratic challenger the Rev. Raphael Warnock traded attacks in the runoff debates. Loeffler dodged questions about President Donald Trump’s false election claims while Warnock worked to fend off accusations that his liberal policies are out of step with Georgia values. Also: Gov. Brian Kemp has rejected calls from Trump and several Republican st...

Friday on Political Rewind: Georgians are being inundated wherever they turn with political ads in the leadup to the Jan. 5 runoff. An unprecedented $300 million has been spent on ads on television, radio and online as Senate-appointee Kelly Loeffler faces Democrat challenger the Rev. Raphael Warnock while Republican Sen. David Perdue faces Jon Ossoff. Also, President Donald Trump continues to mak...

Thursday on Political Rewind: A conversation with author Larry Tye about history, lies and the presidency. As President Donald Trump continues to spin out conspiracy theories about a fraudulent election to inspire outrage among his supporters, Tye reminds us Americans have long had a love affair with bullies in his new book. Tye writes about one of the most notorious bullies in 20th-century Americ...

Wednesday on Political Rewind: Top elections officials charged with overseeing Georgia’s voting system are offering a staunch rebuttal to unfounded accusation of voter fraud from President Donald Trump and his allies. In a news conference yesterday, voting system implementation manager Gabriel Sterling accused the President of fomenting violence against election workers. Will his emotional plea le...

Tuesday on Political Rewind: The big Republican names in politics are all planning to visit Georgia to help rally supporters in the lead up to the state’s crucial congressional races on the ballot in the Jan. 5 primary. President Donald Trump is expected to visit this weekend, while Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to visit Savannah on Friday. Some Republican state leaders raised concerns th...

Monday on Political Rewind: Our panel of political experts discusses the continued baseless attacks on the integrity of the election. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, President Donald Trump continued his efforts to undermine the outcome of the presidential election. He insists, without evidence, that President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia was based on massive fraud. Meanwhile, some allies of...

Wednesday on Political Rewind: The coronavirus epidemic has uprooted many of the norms of daily life, and that will continue to be true through the holiday season. Yesterday, Gov. Brian Kemp urged Georgians to consider alternative virtual Thanksgiving gatherings in order to protect themselves and others from COVID-19. Georgia is faring better than other states at the moment, yet the rate of new in...

Tuesday on Political Rewind: Spending on Georgia’s two U.S. Senate runoff elections is reaching mind-boggling heights. So far, $257 million has been committed or spent for television, radio and digital ads in the races. According to media expert Rick Dent, more than $32 million of ads were broadcasted by the four campaigns in the past week alone, and the spending spree will continue during the six...

Monday on Political Rewind: We speak with a giant of Georgia politics — former United States Sen. Sam Nunn. During his 24-year tenure, Nunn became the Senate’s most important voice on the U.S. military and a leader in debates on foreign affairs. In the years since he left the Senate, Nunn continued his groundbreaking work to rid the world of the threat of nuclear destruction. We will discuss Nunn’...

Friday on Political Rewind: The extraordinary hand recount of some 5 million presidential ballots has confirmed that Joe Biden won Georgia and won its 16 electoral votes. Biden becomes the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Georgia since 1992. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who certified the election results today, joins our panel. Meanwhile, a federal judge in Atlanta has reje...

Thursday on Political Rewind: President-elect Joe Biden has maintained his lead over President Donald Trump in Georgia after the state’s ambitious hand recount of some 5 million ballots. But the process did discover counting errors in several counties that added more than 1,000 votes to the Trump column. Meanwhile, even while the president and many loyalists here in Georgia and across the country...

Wednesday on Political Rewind: Counties have until midnight to finish their audits of ballots cast in the November presidential election. No evidence of election fraud has been found. The audit revealed memory cards from voting machines in two counties were not properly uploaded. The votes were added to the final tally. After accounting for those ballots, Biden’s lead dropped to about 13,000 votes...

Tuesday on Political Rewind: Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is responding to criticism from leaders in his own party. President Donald Trump, Georgia’s two sitting senators and other high-ranking Republicans claim, without evidence, that Georgia's election results were rigged in favor of President-elect Joe Biden. Raffensperger called on Georgians to ignore false conspiracy charges about el...

Monday on Political Rewind: Counties across Georgia will finish their audits of ballots cast in the November presidential election. Fifty counties, including DeKalb and Fulton counties, have finished their recounts so far. Our panel of experts and insiders takes a look at the latest results from that process and looks ahead to what comes next. Also, Georgia’s state and federal runoff elections on...

Friday on Political Rewind: There is a frightening uptick in COVID-19 numbers across the country. Though the worst numbers are currently seen in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, cases in Georgia of the virus continue an upward path. Public health experts warn that without proper mitigation efforts, an explosive increase in case numbers, hospitalizations and deaths is possible. Our panel is jo...

Thursday on Political Rewind: County election workers across Georgia soon begin a hand recount of nearly 5 million ballots cast in the presidential election. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the extraordinary measure will clarify the outcome of the presidential race in Georgia. Raffensperger has faced criticism from state Republicans who continue to make unfounded allegations of election...

Wednesday on Political Rewind: The spotlight remains focused on Georgia following the general election as two crucial Senate races head to a January runoff. Vice President Mike Pence announced he plans to visit the state to campaign for Republican Senate candidates David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. President-elect Joe Biden signaled he is open to stumping for Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and R...

Tuesday on Political Rewind: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that challenges if the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. Georgia, among several other states, joined the federal government in challenging the legality of Obamacare as health care for hundreds of thousands of Georgians — and millions of Americans — could be at stake today. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign is gea...

Monday on Political Rewind: With Georgia still counting votes, Joe Biden seems to have won the state, and its 16 electoral votes weren't needed for him to be declared the president-elect. However, Biden's apparent victory signals a new day of competitive politics in a state that's been a Republican stronghold for nearly three decades. What factors are changing the political landscape here? Our pan...

Friday afternoon on Political Rewind: The margins remain close in Georgia’s ballot count. Overnight, Democratic challenger Joe Biden surpassed President Donald Trump as absentee ballots continue to be counted. Votes from Clayton County helped push Biden into the lead. The county south of Atlanta traditionally supports Democratic candidates and lies in the center of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis' f...

Friday on Political Rewind: Biden pulls ahead with a narrow lead as ballot counting continues. The race is still too close to call, and thousands of ballots have yet to been processed. The nation continues to watch Georgia’s returns as the state takes on new significance in the race for the White House this year. Our panel breaks down the latest. And, the latest updates show both of Georgia’s pair...