Georgia official to Trump: ‘What you’re saying is not true’
“Respectfully, President Trump: What you’re saying is not true. The truth will come out,” Raffensperger tweeted.
Raffensperger’s comment was in response to a tweet Sunday morning by the President, in which Trump said he spoke to Raffensperger on the phone in an attempt to convince Raffensperger to look into unfounded conspiracy theories about the vote in November. According to Trump, Raffensperger refused to do so.
“I spoke to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger yesterday about Fulton County and voter fraud in Georgia. He was unwilling, or unable, to answer questions such as the ‘ballots under table’ scam, ballot destruction, out of state ‘voters,’ dead voters, and more. He has no clue!” Trump wrote.
The Secretary of State’s office told CNN that Raffensperger would have no additional comment on the conversation.
Raffensperger, a Republican and a Trump supporter, has consistently turned back Trump’s claims of voter fraud in Georgia. He has overseen three different recounts of the vote and conducted several other reviews of the process. He recently tasked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation with conducting an audit of the signature match system in Cobb County that determined the system was 99.9% accurate and revealed no evidence of fraud.
Raffensperger and the state’s GOP Gov. Brian Kemp, another target of Trump’s ire, have repeatedly begged the President to shift his focus from the November results to the runoff.
“We just have to accept the facts of what happened in the November election,” Raffensperger told Fox News on Saturday. “I’m not happy with it and many conservatives aren’t either but at the end of the day we want to make sure that we have a fair, honest election coming up Tuesday and that’s what we’ll fight for.”
Trump travels to Georgia Monday for one final rally in support of Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. Republicans are anxious that the President may spend more time complaining about the November election than he will encouraging his supporters to get out and vote for the GOP ticket.
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