Georgia’s two Democratic senators didn’t wait for President Trump to try to undermine their legitimacy with false claims about their crucial election victories in 2020 that propelled Democrats to the Senate majority.
In interviews and social media posts, Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff have aggressively countered a potential presidential claim that they did not win their seats fairly.
They acted after reports that the president would use a speech scheduled for Thursday evening to take aim at them, alleging widespread fraud in Georgia voting six years ago despite multiple inquiries that produced no evidence of wrongdoing.
The two senators and their Democratic allies have ridiculed the president’s fixation on his loss in 2020 and the accompanying Democratic victories as driven by the president’s fragile ego, his efforts to sow distrust about the coming election results and to pressure congressional Republicans to pass new voting restrictions.
“The world’s most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time address to pursue his six-year-old grievances about the 2020 election while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control and the cost of living continues to rise for Americans,” Mr. Ossoff, who is up for re-election this year, said in advance of the speech. He said that any claim about the Georgia election would be an attack on the state’s voters and elected officials.
“If the president declares Georgia’s elections illegitimate, or if the president declares...
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