While Donald Trump – and Tennessee senators and representatives – sink to new lows in their seemingly bottomless plunge to stay in power, someone is dying of COVID-19 every 33 seconds. That has meant about 2,600 deaths a day over the past week.
Here in Hamilton County, we ran through all the vaccines we were offered last week long before the 75-year-olds and up got queued into lines. And, go ahead, call your regular doc to ask if he or she will be prioritizing their patient lists for vaccines at their office. They’ll tell you they certainly have that capability, but they’ll also say – and we quote – they have “no clue” if or when they’ll get any of the vaccine. No clue.
Yet what has any of that got to do with Trump, who over the weekend made it crystal clear once again that the only thing he can think about is how to cheat his way into staying in office?
This time he phoned the Georgia secretary of state and spent more than an hour browbeating, cajoling, begging and threatening Brad Raffensperger and his general counsel, Ryan Germany, telling them: “I just want to find 11,780 votes.” Just “find” the votes to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election which Trump lost to Joe Biden.
Importantly, Trump made this clear after Raffensperger and his deputies debunked the numerous lies about vote fraud made by Trump to justify his atrocious demand just days before Georgia’s Senate runoff elections set for today.