Author: Alexandra Ulmer
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Beyond Trump, Trumpism is the winner in midterm primaries
ATLANTA • The defeat of David Perdue in Tuesday’s Republican gubernatorial primary in Georgia likely delighted Donald Trump’s adversaries, who have been keeping scorecards to measure the performance of election candidates backed by the former president. Trump has weighed in on November’s midterm elections like no former president, announcing more than 190 endorsements and holding…
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Georgia DA asks for special grand jury in election probe
ATLANTA • The prosecutor for Georgia’s biggest county on Thursday requested a special grand jury with subpoena power to aid her investigation into then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to influence the U.S. state’s 2020 election results. In a letter to Fulton County’s chief judge, first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, District Attorney Fani Willis wrote that…