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‘Someone’s going to get killed’: GOP election official in Georgia blames President Trump for fostering violent threats - The Washington Post

‘Someone’s going to get killed’: GOP election official in Georgia blames President Trump for fostering violent threats - The Washington Post

‘Someone’s going to get killed’: GOP election official in Georgia blames President Trump for fostering violent threats - The Washington Post
Dec 02, 2020 2 mins, 17 secs

A top Republican election official in Georgia lashed out at President Trump during a news conference Tuesday in Atlanta, blaming him for a flood of threats that have besieged his office and calling on the president and other Republicans to condemn the behavior.

Gabriel Sterling, a voting systems manager for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, was visibly angry and shaken as he approached a lectern in the Georgia Capitol.

The episode revealed a fissure that has been widening within the Republican Party for weeks as Trump has claimed falsely, again and again, that President-elect Joe Biden won through election fraud.

Although more and more local and state Republicans have acknowledged Biden’s victory — and said they have seen no evidence of widespread fraud — most national GOP officials, including Georgia’s two U.S.

In addition to calling out Trump by name, Sterling also demanded that the two senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, denounce the threats that flowed into his office after Trump began attacking Raffensperger for failing to repeat his false accusations of fraud.

Neither senator has offered any evidence of fraud or mismanagement by Raffensperger, nor a rationale for their call for his resignation, which came after Trump began attacking him and Gov.

Trump is scheduled to travel to Georgia on Saturday to campaign on behalf of Loeffler and Perdue.

Late Tuesday night, Trump tweeted in response to Sterling’s call for him to condemn threats: “Rigged Election.

What is Secretary of State and @BrianKempGA afraid of.

secretary of state says fellow Republicans are pressuring him to find ways to exclude ballots.

That stance has drawn a fusillade of online attacks and personal threats against the secretary of state and others in his office.

But Sterling said Tuesday that for him, the last straw came when a 20-year-old technician for the state’s voting machine contractor, Dominion Voting Systems, was targeted by far-right social media users who falsely claimed they’d caught him on camera manipulating election data.

When Sterling stepped to the lectern inside the Georgia Capitol on Tuesday afternoon, he was noticeably upset.

But Raffensperger gave Sterling the green light to speak his mind, Jordan Fuchs, a deputy secretary of state, said in an interview.

Sterling also had another message for Trump that Republicans in Washington have been unwilling to deliver: The election is over

To boost voter-fraud claims, Trump advocate Sidney Powell turns to unusual source: The longtime operator of QAnon’s Internet home

In fact, the undated video — which was recorded at a distance and includes a man and woman offering ongoing commentary on the “nerd boy” as he works inside an election office — shows a man simply using a computer and thumb drive

Trump raises more than $150 million appealing to false election claims

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