Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger held the line against former President Donald Trump's exhortations and veiled threats to "find" extra votes that would win Trump the state in the 2020 presidential election. Now, Raffensperger is claiming that election denial is a bipartisan problem.
In a Sunday op-ed for The Wall Street Journal entitled "Raphael Warnock, Election Denier," Raffensperger castigated the newly reelected Democratic senator and others for statements that cast doubt on the fairness of the state's recent elections.
In 2018, when Democrat Stacey Abrams lost the race for governor by less than two points, she responded by casting doubt on the entire system, delivering a nonconcession concession speech in which she "acknowledge[d] that former Secretary of State Brian Kemp will be certified as the victor" but said that in his role in that prior office, "eight years of systemic disenfranchisement, disinvestment and incompetence had its desired effect on the electoral process in Georgia." She said that "I cannot concede" because the election was not "right, true, or proper." She also announced the formation of a nonprofit organization, Fair Fight Action, which days later sued the state alleging voter suppression.
But in 2020, Democrats recaptured both the Senate and the White House. In testimony before the U.S. House in early 2021, Abrams acknowledged that the 2020 elections had been "audited, evaluated, and investigated," and found to feature "no evidence...
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