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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said both Republicans and Democrats need to acknowledge “when you lose, you lose.”
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The Georgia official compared efforts by Republicans to overturn the 2020 election to complaints of voter suppression from Democrats.
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Raffensperger became a target of former President Donald Trump after he denied his request to “find” 11,780 votes to overturn the 2020 presidential election
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger issued a message to both Republicans and Democrats frustrated by election losses: “Move on.”
Speaking to MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart on Sunday, Raffensperger said both Republicans and Democrats can be blamed for distrust in public elections.
“We have safe and secure elections. It’s not helpful for either party, I think either party needs to look at what they’re saying and just realize that when you lose, you lose,” Raffensperger told Capehart.
Raffensperger said Stacey Abrams, who ran for Governor of Georgia in 2018 but lost, “set the table for President Trump” to make similar claims of election fraud. At the time, Abrams said she would have won the election were it not for voter suppression in Georgia.
Abrams’ opponent who went on to become governor, then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp, was both a candidate in the race and the one overseeing the election process. The New York Times reported in 2018 that Kemp “oversaw purges of the voting rolls and supported a tightening of registration rules.”
Abrams ended her campaign but refused to formally concede the race, claiming that voter suppression prevented her win.
“If you really look at what Stacey Abrams did, she lost the state of Georgia in 2018 by 55,000 votes. She questioned the legitimacy of our elections. She actually then set the table, along with all the national democrat leaders that supported Stacy Abrams in her big lie, and set the…
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