{"id":38155,"date":"2020-11-23T14:22:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T18:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=38155"},"modified":"2020-11-23T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T18:22:50","slug":"pro-trump-attorney-urges-republicans-not-to-vote-in-georgia-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=38155","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Trump Attorney Urges Republicans Not to Vote in Georgia Runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_38156\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38156\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38156\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GetFile-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GetFile-6.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GetFile-6-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-38156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The British diver Vernon Unsworth (2L) and his attorneys, Mark Stephen (L) and L. Lin Wood (3L) leave the US District Court, Central District of California in Los Angeles on December 6, 2019. &#8211; Tesla co-founder Elon Musk was cleared of defamation on Friday by a jury in Los Angeles over a tweet in which he labeled a British caver &#8220;pedo guy.&#8221; (Photo by Apu Gomes \/ AFP) (Photo by APU GOMES\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>By Marisa Herman | NEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Attorney L. Lin Wood, who has been\u00a0filing lawsuits for President Donald Trump challenging the election results, called on Republicans to withhold their votes for two GOP senators in an upcoming runoff election that will decide which party\u00a0holds the majority of the Senate,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/pro-trump-attorney-calls-on-republicans-to-withhold-votes-in-georgia-runoffs-that-will-decide-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mediaite<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of weekend tweets, Wood asked Georgians not to vote for Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue unless they help overturn the election results in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s speak truth about @SenLoeffler &amp; @sendavidperdue. Why are they doing little or nothing to support efforts by GA citizens to address unlawful election &amp; need for @BrianKempGA to order special session of legislature?\u201d Wood\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LLinWood\/status\/1330218328225353735\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cIf not fixed, I will NOT vote in GA runoff,\u201d he continued. \u201cWill you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then tweeted, \u201cPoliticians love votes &amp; money (not necessarily in that order). Want to get @SenLoeffler &amp; @sendavidperdue out of their basements to demand that action must be taken to fix steal of the 11\/3 GA election? Threaten to withhold your votes &amp; money. Demand that they represent you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He repeatedly called on Loeffler and Perdue to act or he would withhold his vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have learned in recent days that most members of @GaRepublicans are doing NOTHING to fight for their constituents votes for @realDonaldTrump,\u201d he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LLinWood\/status\/1330291300659326978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a>. \u201cThey have prematurely surrendered our state &amp; nation to third party bad actors who are involved in a coup &amp; tried to steal our election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/georgia-election-loeffler-perdue\/2020\/11\/23\/id\/998342\/\">https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/georgia-election-loeffler-perdue\/2020\/11\/23\/id\/998342\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}