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President Trump said he will endorse a candidate in Texas's GOP Senate runoff soon and asked the other candidate to drop out, a move that could tilt a tight Cornyn–Paxton race as ballots continue counting. Democrats are coalescing around James Talarico, and party strategists expect the endorsement to shape a lengthy, expensive runoff.
Operatives on the payroll of former President Donald Trump discussed using stolen data from voting machines to decertify Georgia’s 2020 Senate runoff, according to text messages obtained by CNN. The operatives gained access to a voting machine in Coffee County, Georgia, after a sympathetic local election administrator allowed them to download voting data onto a portable hard drive. The breaches are being examined by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as part of a larger investigation into Trump’s attempts to interfere in the 2020 election.
Text messages obtained by CNN reveal that Trump allies considered using breached voting data from a rural county in Georgia not only to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, but also in an effort to keep a Republican hold on the US Senate by decertifying the state's pending Senate runoff results. The plot to breach voting systems in Coffee County, coordinated by members of Trump’s legal team including Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, is part of a broader criminal investigation into 2020 election interference led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Willis’ office is weighing a potential racketeering case against multiple defendants and is actively deciding who to bring charges against.