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Brad Raffensperger does the tally in Georgia. The Republican comes to feel the hatred of his party.
“Georgia on my mind,” jazz musician Ray Charles once sang wistfully. And Republicans now look longingly on their former stronghold, which they lost in this presidential election.
The Trump campaign does not want to accept that. The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., made it clear three days after Election Day in Atlanta that his father would fight to the death for the election results. Democrats are probably not used to weak Republicans. But this party is a thing of the past, and those who don’t want to fight should sneak out.
At the Trump campaign shooting range
It was a call for a bloody enmity, and the shooting range was Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who is in charge of the elections. Calls to resign were made for no concrete reason: he had organized the elections poorly and not transparently.
Raffensperger ordered a manual recount of the five million votes, as requested by the Trump campaign. But he also made it clear that he would make sure the result was correct.
Raffensperger fights back
Apparently his group didn’t like hearing that. Trump loyalists spread rumors on conservative TV channels about open ballot boxes, clandestine counts and lack of control over signatures on vote-by-mail ballots. Verdict: Georgia’s election was chaotic and Raffensperger was responsible for it. He deserves the wrath of the people.
Georgia’s 65-year-old secretary of state is actually a reserved man who doesn’t seem particularly comfortable in the spotlight. As a qualified engineer, you count the votes with an exact scientific sense. And it defends itself against attacks from within its own ranks.
A call from Senator Graham
Raffensperger dismantles individual rumors of voter fraud on Facebook. He just calls Trump’s Georgia campaign boss a liar. On CNN he made a sensitive phone call with Senator Lindsey Graham: Graham had indicated that he should invalidate as many vote-by-mail ballots as possible. That is also the strategy of the demands of the Republicans and the Trump campaign.
Brad Raffensberger talks about insults and death threats against him and his wife: You always want to believe that your own side is using the clean slate. But people are really angry and the controversy is fierce, the secretary of state said.
There is the right
Raffensperger says he will likely be disappointed with the result as well. He too had hoped for a Republican victory. But there is a process that must be followed and there is the right. Integrity is important.
The count, which will end today, did not reveal any major irregularities. A Republican district had forgotten to cast about 3,000 votes, with a net gain of 800 votes for President Trump. But that doesn’t help him win in Georgia.
