{"id":2560799,"date":"2026-02-01T11:29:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-looking-backwards-with-georgia-fbi-raid-jim-antle-4\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T11:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:30:25","slug":"trump-looking-backwards-with-georgia-fbi-raid-jim-antle-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-looking-backwards-with-georgia-fbi-raid-jim-antle-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump looking &#8216;backwards&#8217; with Georgia FBI raid: Jim Antle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-looking-backwards-with-georgia-fbi-raid-jim-antle-4%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2560799&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Jim antle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-how-to-blow-up-the-lefts-terrorist-narrative\/\" title=\"GRAHAM: How to Blow Up The Left\u2019s Terrorist Narrative\">executive editor<\/a> of Washington Examiner magazine, said the FBI\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-raids-home-of-gabby-petito-fiance-removes-parents-declares-crime-scene\/\" title=\"...s Home Of Gabby Petito Fiance, Removes Parents, Declares Crime Scene\">court-authorized search<\/a> of a Fulton County, Georgia, election facility underscores President Trump\u2019s continued focus on contesting the 2020 results \u2014 a stance Antle called politically backward-looking now that Trump has won the 2024 election.Antle told C-SPAN he doubts any new developments will change many minds, though the issue remains important to Trump and his strongest supporters and helped keep him politically viable out of office. He argued Republicans should concentrate on upcoming contests, particularly the 2026 midterms and competitive races this November such as the Georgia Senate race, rather than relitigating 2020. The piece also notes House Republicans\u2019 push for election changes, including the \u201cMake Elections Great Again Act,\u201d aimed at bolstering voter integrity for future elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump looking &lsquo;backwards&rsquo; with FBI raid on Georgia election facility: Jim Antle<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2489762\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> magazine executive editor Jim Antle said he&rsquo;s &ldquo;not sure&rdquo; what President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4441587\/defeat-out-of-jaws-of-victory-gop-reckons-with-trump-ice-blunders\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> will find to change the public&rsquo;s perspective on the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4440129\/trump-tulsi-gabbard-georgia-fbi-raid-election\/\">2020 election results<\/a> following an FBI raid in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI executed <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4437558\/fbi-executes-search-warrant-at-fulton-county-election-facility\/\">a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >court-authorized search warrant<\/a> at a Fulton County, Georgia, election facility<\/a> on Wednesday as the president continues to contest the election results in a state former President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4435396\/biden-calls-for-full-fair-investigations-into-renee-good-alex-pretti-senseless-deaths\/\">Joe Biden<\/a> won in 2020. Antle said Trump still wants to see these election results contested even though the president made a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-looking-backwards-with-georgia-fbi-raid-jim-antle\/\" title=\"... looking &#039;backwards&#039; with ... ...: ...\">pretty significant political comeback&#038;rdquo<\/a>; by winning the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4440654\/trump-immigration-losses-minnesota-courts-despite-appeals\/\">Trump faces flurry of immigration losses in Minnesota lower courts despite appeals court win<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4442040\/richard-cox-sex-offender-evidence-thrown-out-before-trial\/\">Sex offender tries to get key evidence thrown out ahead of trial<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4442000\/minnesota-judge-refuse-block-operation-metro-surge-minneapolis\/\">Minnesota judge refuses to block Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not sure why being so backward-looking would be to your benefit politically, particularly given that we&rsquo;re now in another election year, and I think most voters have moved on from this,&rdquo; Antle said on C-SPAN&rsquo;s <em>Washington Journal<\/em>. &ldquo;But it&rsquo;s clearly something that&rsquo;s very important to the president. It&rsquo;s very important to some of the president&rsquo;s strongest supporters.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/4441627\/the-choices-that-we-make-west-virginia\/\">SALENA ZITO: THE CHOICES THAT WE MAKE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3353378&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=07c18e72f87added08a9ab2f9d59bf49\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not sure that there&rsquo;s anything that anybody could find that&rsquo;s going to really change anybody&rsquo;s minds about any of this stuff at this point, but clearly, they&rsquo;re going to try,&rdquo; Antle said.<\/p>\n<p>Antle added that he personally didn&rsquo;t see &ldquo;a very good reason for looking backwards&rdquo; on the 2020 election with Trump back in office, saying, &ldquo;You&rsquo;re the president now.&rdquo; However, he noted one factor that kept Trump &ldquo;politically viable&rdquo; during his time away from the Oval Office was pushing back on the 2020 election results.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columnists\/4441828\/sanctuary-cities-are-sanctuaries-for-criminals\/\">BYRON YORK: SANCTUARY CITIES ARE SANCTUARIES FOR CRIMINALS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Antle said he could understand &ldquo;to some extent&rdquo; why Trump views contesting the 2020 election as important, he contended the &ldquo;real election&rdquo; that needs attention is the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4439150\/abolishing-ice-not-winner-democrats-national-level-byron-york\/\">2026 midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the many elections this November is the Georgia Senate race, where Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) is seeking reelection. Antle said this race is &ldquo;pretty important,&rdquo; as it&rsquo;s one of a few &ldquo;pickup opportunities&rdquo; for the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3353390&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=073cbb19012a78f7db62e18601bb2ac5\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4430710\/trump-2024-coalition-midterm-elections\/\"><strong>IS TRUMP&rsquo;S 2024 COALITION COMING APART AHEAD OF THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Because Georgia&rsquo;s such a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-the-11-senate-seats-most-likely-to-flip-in-2024\/\" title=\"Top 11 Senate Seats Likely to Flip in 2024\">closely contested state<\/a>, there&rsquo;s going to be a lot of emphasis on things that can happen at the margins: Should the voter rolls be purged? Are there people on the voter rolls who shouldn&rsquo;t be voting? So there&rsquo;s going to be some focus on that,&rdquo; Antle said. &ldquo;But I really think that what mainly needs to happen is the Republicans, they need to be focused on the election that&rsquo;s about to happen and not the one that was concluded six years ago.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI) unveiled <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4438800\/house-republicans-election-reform-package-2026-midterms\/\">the Make Elections Great Again Act<\/a> in a bid to raise voter integrity in the 2026 elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antle: Trump looks backward after Georgia FBI raid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2560800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26032148754056-e1769954550345.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32319,72264,72516,33373,5894],"class_list":["post-2560799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-georgia-fbi-raid","tag-jim-antle","tag-legal-troubles","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26032148754056-e1769954550345.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560803,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560799\/revisions\/2560803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2560800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}