Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) on Wednesday criticized former President Donald Trump for repeating “recycled conspiracy theories” about his 2020 election loss while on the campaign trail again in 2024.
in Editorial published Wednesday National Review's Raffensperger said Trump and his supporters are “just repeating the same tired, long-disproven claims” about the 2020 election, which Raffensperger calls ” It's repetitive, boring and sad.”
He likened President Trump's 2020 election fraud claims to “the water system in front of the Bellagio in Las Vegas,” saying they are “certainly interesting at first,” but quickly become “predictable and boring.”
“The big lie about the 2020 election has been repeated for over three years, yet no evidence or anything that has not been publicly known since January 2021 has come to light,” Raffensperger wrote.
“The current fluctuations, shown regularly so far during Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, are just one in a dancing fountain of lies disproved by the counting, recounting, and auditing of the 2020 Georgia vote.” “Not a single shred of evidence has been provided in my state or in any other state to support that,” he wrote.
Raffensperger rose to national prominence as Georgia's top elections official in the 2020 election, rejecting President Trump's pressure to “find” more Trump votes after the incumbent president lost. became. As a result, he was frequently the target of President Trump's ire, but consistently stood his ground.
In an editorial Wednesday, Raffensperger cited a pivotal Jan. 2, 2021 phone call in which Trump asked Raffensperger to find “11,790 votes, one more than we have.” I reminisced.
“When I looked into it, it was very clear why he lost,” Raffensperger said, adding that Trump's loss in the state was because he had supported other Republicans who voted against him before. He pointed to Georgia Republicans who did not support the president as a major culprit.
Raffensperger said that when Trump won 51% of the Republican vote, as revealed in Monday's Iowa caucus results, he was “recycling conspiracy theories and those that have already been disproved.” “This is just a repeat of his claims,” he said, noting that many people still support the former president.
“The three-ring circus that was once President Trump's entertainment show has shrunk to a decrepit one-pony performing tricks in a desperate bid to win back the audience it once held captive.” showed that it can still entertain some people. Others can decide for themselves.”
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