Karen Handel

Georgia has been forced to let new voters register for the June 20 run-off election in the 6th Congressional District, and Republican candidate Karen Handel is outraged. Outraged enough to try to raise money off of it, anyway, with a fundraising email calling the effort to allow more people to register and vote a “partisan” one, even though it was decided by a George W. Bush-appointed federal judge:

“This is going to boil your blood. Just hours ago, the Democrats won their lawsuit to extend voter registration in Georgia before our election,” she wrote in the email. “This lawsuit should be seen for exactly what it is: A partisan attempt to change the rules in the middle of an election for a nakedly partisan outcome.” Handel suggested that Democrats were trying to steal the election. “Friend, I need your immediate support to fight back against the Democrat’s latest trick to deceive this election,” she wrote.

“The Democrat’s latest trick to deceive this election”? I’d ask what that even means, but I’m pretty sure that making sense is beside the point. It oozes outrage and feeds Handel’s supporters’ sense of entitlement, encouraging them to believe that the only way someone like Jon Ossoff could win is through tricks and deception.

Yet another ad from the Congressional Leadership Fund, meanwhile, is looking to delegitimize Ossoff in a different and even weirder way: San Francisco. The ad features a parade of “San Franciscans” gushing about Ossoff. Sample clip: man with braids stands in front of the sign for Fisherman’s Wharf and flashes a peace sign as he says “We already have Nancy Pelosi as our congresswoman, now you’re going to give us Jon Ossoff as OUR congressMAN.” Truly this is an ad for people who hate the idea of San Francisco so much that they don't need any content beyond people saying the name San Francisco a lot while having long hair. But the message is consistent with Handel’s “trick to deceive this election.”

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