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I should add one of best outcomes yesterday is the resounding defeat of Jody Hice. To quote Bugs Bunny, "what a maroon." This guy gave up a pretty safe Republican seat, I do believe. If I'm wrong, please correct me. I hope Mr. Trump has a nice cushy job for him at Truth Social, but I kinda doubt it.

He was also one of the 139 Congressmen that voted to overturn the 2020 election results on January 6. He also signed the Amicus brief in support of that stupid Texas versus Pennsylvania lawsuit which the Supreme Court refused to hear. This man doesn't deserve to hold office, anywhere.

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Erick, Donald will not "wake up." Grifters can be the easiest people to grift, particularly narcissistic ones.

I have a question. What can Donald Trump do with all that money he's raised. I know there are laws about its use but how much slippage is there in those laws?

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Great article. I think the Headline is clever but does not settle the argument of whether the whole narrative of 2000 Mules was accurate. I know the/your arguments against enough widespread fraud to turn the election, but fraud is fraud. It needs to be investigated, and if there are compelling cases, they need prosecuting. I still believe both Kemp and Raffensberger were duped by Stacie Abrams in 2020, and the rush to "accommodate" the panic over COVID but I also believe they have reformed the system...to their credit. Most of my candidates won their races, but I will support the people's choices against the D's completely. I did not vote for Raffensberger, but he is good at claiming credit for the reforms put in place. I think he is arrogant and has a poor temperament compared to others in the race, but the people have spoken.

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Eric presented the facts that directly refute and discredit 2000 Mules. If you believe D'souza and not Al Gore and Michael Moore you do so because you like the person and person's message, not because the message is factual.

https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/democrats-claim-evidence-the-gop?r=4uy3m&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct

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Eric’s “facts” did not directly refute 2000Mules- they offered an alternate explanation. The GBI said the evidence was circumstantial. Circumstantial evidence offers neither a refutation, nor a confirmation. Eric mentioned on two occasions that the weather was cold during the time is a credible explanation for the wearing of gloves. Latex gloves?? Who wears latex gloves in cold weather? The jury is still out on this issue.

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The latex gloves were to protect against COVID.

Circumstantial evidence is evidence that relies on an inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact.

It therefore can be refuted with circumstantial evidence that points to different facts. Or in Eric's case showing the "evidence" presented is a lie.

Fact: An increase in ice cream sales and an increase in the murder rate happen at the same time.

I question the motivation of anyone who wants to continue to litigate the 2020 election. I think D'souza's motivation is money and name recognition. I think a person can be legitimately concerned about election integrity. I think chasing the 2020 stolen election narrative as evidence "I care about election integrity" is not only harmful to our culture, it is born out of a cult following for Donald Trump.

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If so about the wearing of latex gloves, then why did Eric even mention the cold weather excuse twice?

I’m not chasing any narrative. I don’t want the results overturned, but if there was fraud I want it aggressively perused and eradicated before the next election cycle.

Eric has skin in this game also. He said within weeks of the end of the election that there was no significant fraud. He could now be motivated to dismiss any new claim that crops up so as not to be proven wrong. You say that you think a person can be legitimately concerned about election integrity. I am. Eric is not.

Eric saw the movie, and read a couple of the initial debunking articles and made a call. I do not believe he presented the issues raised back to Dinesh to get a response. I also believe he did no investigation on his own because his article was immediate.

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Opinions are like some other body parts, we all have one and you are welcome to yours. I don't reject the premise of the film, I haven't even seen it, but if true... then punishment is due. if not true then nothing will come of it.

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Oh, you are opining about the "narrative" which has been thoroughly discredited and supposing 2000 Mules, a film you haven't seen, some how brings facts that have not been revealed to date.

Facts are not opinions. D'souza presents a narrative, not facts; a narrative that is in fact false.

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Look, so many of the stolen election claims were false, and there is no point arguing about them. My point is not to "opine" about anything, but just to say that if there is any truth to them, I hope it is handled correctly. I try never to make definitive claims about narratives, only what I am sure of. Erick has stated his view of the claims, and I accept that. I don't have a view of them since I have not seen them, and I don't accept the narrative as true. Don't make assumptions about what I believe or accept as facts. I do believe the whole situation with drop boxes and ballot harvesting invites corruption, but that is my opinion and may have wonderfully simple explanations. Cell phone tracking and camera do present information, but may not be relevant, as you suggest as debunked theory.

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Since 2000 Mules focused heavily on drop boxes in Atlanta, how is the current election going to be spun to keep up the movie narrative?

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Kemp won on his past performance...simple as that. Purdue lost because he couldn't even beat Jon Ossoff, and no one wanted him running against Abrams and suffering the same defeat. Now, as long as the Purdue voters don't refuse to show up in November...

I had to laugh at the "breaking news" that Stacey Abrams was decreed the "winner" in the Democrat primary...not hard to do when you're the only one on the ballot!

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May 25, 2022·edited May 25, 2022

Only sadness I see is the MTG clown show being emboldened. I foresee the Republican version of Cynthia McKinney only more so. It is going to be embarrassing.

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May 25, 2022·edited May 25, 2022

I never thought Kemp would win by +/- 50%. Simply stunning.

Looks like Herschel ran away with it.

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Me, Me, Me, I, I, I.....hmm, perhaps a lesson can be learned and we can focus on what really matters...everyone else. Public Service should be just that. I am happy that the Georgia voters picked service over ego. I suspect that you may see a tantrum still, and in 2024 we will need to make another choice. Here's hoping I get to vote "for" someone and not just "against" someone.

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Politicians of all stripes seldom learn lessons. But I agree that the GA voters know Brian Kemp, and they like him. No outside voices, Trump or otherwise, change that fact. Glad the cult of personality was rejected in favor of faithful service.

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I applaud the results! The Republican voters finally see the back of Donald Trump.

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I am sure there are a multitude of reasons why people of Georgia voted for Trump in 2016. Someone smarter than me would have to figure out how many of those people voted for him because they really didn't want Hilary Clinton to be president. With Clinton off the ticket in 2020, how many of them moved back to being the moderates (even left leaning moderates are moderates) that they are?

In most states, Trump won the GOP primary in 2016 with only about 35-40% of the vote followed by a general election where the Democrats nominated the only person who could lose to a candidate who could barely hit 50% in his own party. That is not enough to carry him when competing against a single opponent when that opponent isn't Hilary Clinton. And, it is now apparent that it is not enough for him to carry his water carriers in down-ticket races.

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Glad to wake up to learn of this.

That being said, what the hades happened in MTG’s district that allowed her to continue to November?

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If you don't live in/near MTG's district, you may not understand. I have close friends in that area and everyone I meet when I am in her district love, love, love her. They wear it as a badge of honour that RINOs and independents and moderates don't like her. But if you are in/near her district, you can easily see the devotion her constituents have for her.

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Good point.

I must admit, she would probably do well where I live, too.

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Great article, Erick! It was a great election night. Icing on the cake if Butch can pull it out. I wish/hope Georgia would be repeated throughout the country and we can get past Trump. I’m confident Herschel will be his own mean and not a trump puppet.

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Canadian Conrad Black, in an Epoch Times article said all but 3 of the approximately 70 candidates Trump endorsed won their race. Perhaps this is just a Georgia phenomenon. So either the Georgia Republican voters are smarter than the rest of the country, or the old boy Republican machine is more deeply embedded there. I agree that Trump needs to move on. I don’t agree that there wasn’t enough significant fraud to alter the election results.

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Trump endorsed my Congressman, an incumbent who ran without opposition.

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There is a bit of padding there because many of those endorsements were for people in uncontested races or races where the challenger was not significant.

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Yes! Trump needs to move on from his loss and get to the multitude of problems we now have thanks to Joe and his incompetent cronies.

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Trump enabled Joe and his incompetent cronies by his shenanigans in GA. He's a big reason for the multitude of problems we now have.

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