Former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell said on Tuesday that Georgia’s election officials may have “cheated” the state’s special by-elections on Jan. 5 to allow Republican Senate officials to win.
During Powell’s interview on The Rush Limbaugh Show, an interviewer asked her if she thinks Republicans should vote in the state’s special election, despite her belief that the state’s presidential election is unpredictable to provide an outcome for the elected Democratic president, Joe Biden.
“Well, my concern is that it’s not going to matter how the people vote in the Georgia race,” Powell said. “Of course it did not matter how they voted nationwide, did it?”
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When the interviewer said he wanted the Republicans to vote “in incredible numbers” in the upcoming special election, he added: “I want to see all eyes on this because we can not hand over the Senate to these people, Sydney. not.”
Then Powell responded.
“Well, I mean the situation we are in now, I would suggest that everyone in Georgia act on election day, and do it again: Vote in large numbers for the Republican candidates and see what happens,” Powell said. added: “And it could be that they even set up the system so that the two Republicans win, so they can say, ‘Oh, look? There’s no problem.’
Republicans and Democrats are watching the special Senate race closely as it will determine the party’s control of the US Senate. The two races are between Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jon Ossoff against Republican incumbent Senator David Purdue and a race between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican incumbent Senator Kelly Loeffler.
Trump, his surrogates to his re-election campaign and his supporters, all criticized Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp as saying that Biden won the state fairly, and so did Trump and his supporters. contradict allegations of widespread electoral fraud.
While advocating for Trump’s re-election campaign, Powell claimed at a news conference on Nov. 19 that ‘massive influence of communist money by Venezuela, Cuba and probably China’ forced Republican and Democratic lawmakers to direct the election.
According to Powell, the Democratic and Republican candidates paid foreign governments to change voting machines to turn Trump votes into Biden votes and to change enough other votes to help other individual candidates win their election contests.
“We have no idea how much Republican or Democratic candidates in any country across the country paid to make the system work for them,” Powell said. Powell offered no evidence to substantiate her allegations.
On November 21, Powell appeared on the right-wing conservative network Newsmax, claiming he had evidence that 7 million votes had been fraudulently cast in favor of Biden. She also accused Kemp and Raffensperger of accepting bribes to participate in the alleged voting liaison scheme.
By November 22, Trump’s re-election campaign said Powell no longer had a formal role as a campaign advocate.
Powell’s allegations about the corruption of Kemp and Raffensperger may have potentially undermined the Republicans’ chances in Georgia’s runoff, as some Republicans want to “punish” the local Republican party that helped ratify Biden’s victory. Others just distrust the election process as Trump and his supporters claim it was broken by massive fraud.
Newsweek contacted the Powell office for comment.