Former President — and current Republican presidential nominee — Donald Trump is lashing out at Republicans in Georgia. Again.
“Brad Raffensperger has to do his job, and make sure this Election is not stolen. Brian Kemp should focus his efforts on fighting Crime, not fighting Unity and the Republican Party! His Crime Rate in Georgia is terrible, his Crime Rate in Atlanta is the worst, and his Economy is average,” the ex-White House occupant posted in recent days on Truth Social, the Trump social media site that the former president uses how he formerly utilized Twitter — now called X.
Raffensperger is the Georgia Secretary of State who infamously faced off with Trump and allies of the latter after the 2020 presidential election, in which it turned out that Democratic contender Joe Biden was victorious in Georgia. Raffensperger — like Kemp, the current governor in Georgia and another Republican — rejected the prospect of altering or undercutting the 2020 presidential election results.
And Raffensperger took notice of those Trump comments.
“Georgia’s elections are secure. The winner here in November will reflect the will of the people. History has taught us this type of message doesn’t sell well here in Georgia, sir,” the state official — who won another term in that role after the 2020 election — posted on X.
Trump’s original commentary mirrors, of course, his stance after that 2020 race, which he still claims was marred by systematic problems supposedly behind Biden’s eventual victory. At no point, though, has any widely accepted authority at any level of government concluded that there really was systematic fraud in that year’s election. Trump and allies of his brought court challenge after court challenge following that year’s face-off, and they consistently fell short, with Biden becoming the president.
That cloud of 2020 election conspiracy theories partly culminated in the early 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol — defendants from which Trump still suggests pardoning if he makes it back into office.
