We talked about all sorts of things on today’s episode, and then I edited most of the non-newsy topics right on out. Sorry! It’s still a pretty good time, though. We focus mostly on the leaked audio of a conversation between President Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger, and offer our best guesses as to what will happen in the Georgia Senate runoffs being counted right…now. Well, then, anyway. Still now for me. But you get the point. Enjoy!

We made our predictions about what we thought was going to happen in Georgia, and it looks like one of us was right! The Democrats appear to have secured both seats, sending Mitch McConnell to minority leader status.

Here’s the full recording of the call between Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Trump, his chief of staff Mark Meadows, and a bunch of attorneys. And here’s the transcript.

Here’s an article explaining how most of the things Trump brought up in his phone call with Raffensperger, and continues to screech about in rallies, is sourced from the weirdest, least reality-based corners of the internet.

Tom Cotton broken-clocked himself into the right position, saying that he won’t object to election certification on January 6. Trump was…displeased.

Ted Cruz’s shameless display of “loyalty” to Trump is also a fundraising effort for Ted Cruz. “He’s not alone.”

On Meet the Press this past Sunday, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin insisted that he, the President, and others in Congress are right to challenge the results of the 2020 election because people on Twitter were doing mean tweets in 2017.

Here’s Glenn Beck insisting that entertaining obvious untruths about the election by delaying certification for no reason is actually just the right thing to do to restore faith in the system, rather than an obvious plea for more, and even more hysterical, of this behavior in the future.

Here’s the letter from Ken Buck of Colorado, along with six other Congressional Republicans, refreshingly arguing in part that they (Congress) shouldn’t object to the certified election results because Republicans need the Electoral College to win the presidency, being unlikely to win in a more majoritarian system.

From a purely partisan perspective, Republican presidential candidates have won the national popular vote only once in the last 32 years. They have therefore depended on the electoral college for nearly all presidential victories in the last generation. If we perpetuate the notion that Congress may disregard certified electoral votes—based solely on its own assessment that one or more states mishandled the presidential election—we will be delegitimizing the very system that led Donald Trump to victory in 2016, and that could provide the only path to victory in 2024.

I think that’s it! Goodbye!