Senate Polls, Lawsuit Rejected, Palin Campaigns: GA Election News

ATLANTA, GA — The third lawsuit brought by Republicans to challenge Georgia's presidential win for President-elect Joe Biden has been thrown out of court. Other election news includes more than 100 GOP members of Congress supported Texas' failed bid to invalidate the win, and former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin kicked off a campaign to help re-elect Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

The winners of the two Senate races will determine which political party controls the U.S. Senate in 2021.

GA GOP Lawsuit Rejected

President Donald Trump lost his latest legal challenge seeking to overturn Georgia’s blue win for Biden in the election. The state Supreme Court late Saturday rejected a case from Trump’s campaign and Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer, the Associated Press reported.

The lawsuit alleged widespread fraud in Georgia’s presidential election, but had no proof of wrongdoing. The suit was first filed Dec. 4 and rejected by the Fulton County Superior Court because the paperwork was improperly completed and lacked the appropriate filing fees.

The case was then appealed directly to the state Supreme Court, asking justices to consider the case before Monday’s meeting of the Electoral College. The justices rejected the appeal and Biden is set to be elected by the college.

Palin Campaigns For Loeffler, Perdue

Former Republican Vice-Presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Friday campaigned for Georgia GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, who both face runoff elections in January.

“Georgia, we need you to not just show up Jan. 5, not just to win, but to crush it,” Palin told a crowd of supporters in Marietta, The Hill reported.

"We need you to crush it and to send that message, the loudest message that we can,” she said. “That no, we will not implement at all socialism in America. We will not watch that erosion of our inalienable rights.”

Palin’s appearance kicked off the “Save America Tour” organized by conservative group Club for Growth to support the GOP senators in their races against Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock.

Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Backed By Some GA GOP Members

More than 120 of the 196 Republican members of the House of Representatives — including five Georgia members of Congress — signed their names to a brief in support of the Texas lawsuit that sought to overturn Biden’s victory in the presidential election.

The lawsuit, which the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Friday evening, looked to throw out the results in four states won by Biden: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Yahoo reports the five Georgia Congressmen who signed on to the effort to throw out the state's results are:

• Rep. Doug Collins, Ninth Congressional District
• Rep. Rick W. Allen, 12th Congressional District
• Rep. Earl Carter, First Congressional District
• Rep. Drew Ferguson, Third Congressional District
• Rep. Austin Scott, Eighth Congressional District

Latest Polling On Senate Races

The latest polls on the two Senate races show narrow leads for both Democrats, according to FiveThirtyEight.com.

Ossoff has a lead of 48.5 percent to 47.5 percent for Perdue; Warnock has a slightly larger edge over Loeffler, 48.5 percent to 46.9 percent respectively.

If the Democrat challengers win both races, the party will have control of the Senate because Vice President-elect Kamala Harris would break any ties. But if Republicans win one of the two races, they will maintain control.

Loeffler Camp Disavows Photo With White Supremacist

A white supremacist posed for a photo Friday with Loeffler and her campaign strongly condemned the picture taken at an event in Dawsonville. The senator didn't know who Chester Doles was as she mingled with the crowd, her spokesman said Sunday.

Doles spent decades in the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazi National Alliance, AJC.com reported. He was sentenced to prison for the 1993 beating of a Black man in Maryland and on weapons violations in Georgia. He also has ties to the Hammerskins, a racist skinhead gang with whom he marched in 2017′s United the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a white nationalist ran over a counterprotester.

“Kelly had no idea who that was, and if she had she would have kicked him out immediately because we condemn in the most vociferous terms everything that he stands for,” Stephen Lawson, Loeffler’s campaign spokesman, said in a statement.

Doles posted the picture to his account on VK, a Russian social networking site. He has also shared photos of himself with other Georgia politicians, including Republican Congresswoman-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene and Democratic state Rep. Vernon Jones.