The Georgia official who is responsible for overseeing the state’s elections is throwing blows at former gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams, and folks are not putting up with it.
Brad Raffensperger is at it again, chucking the term “election denier” out loosely and seeing where it lands.
He first used the term against Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock in 2022 after Warnock won his runoff election against Herschel Walker. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed flagrantly titled “Raphael Warnock, Election Denier,” Raffensperger denounced part of Warnock’s victory speech about the real threat and impact of voter suppression in the state, calling the charge “false.”
“I thought I had heard every conspiracy theory there was after the 2020 election, but the idea that Republicans control the weather to make it harder for Democrats to vote is a new one. … And I don’t even know what Mr. Warnock means by ‘all kinds of other tricks,’” Raffensperger wrote.
Now, he’s at it again. This time, taking aim at Stacey Abrams.
In a recent interview with Jen Psaki on MSNBC, Abrams said she wouldn’t rule out running for office again.
“Politics is a part of what I am and a part of what I do. My approach is to do the work. Politics is one of the tools that I can use to do so,” Abrams said.
Raffensperger posted a clip of that interview on his X account, in which he said, “The original election denier is thinking of running again. Georgia has free, fair, and secure elections and will withstand scrutiny once again.”
Unsurprisingly, barely anyone supported Raffensperger’s comment about Abrams.
“Hi, Brad! You are an election denier as well!” one person wrote underneath his post. “If you want to attack real election deniers, people who actually conspired to overthrow the election, you’ve got plenty of targets in your own party. How’s that Coffee County investigation going now that you’re…
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