Ahead of their runoff elections which are likely to determine control of the Senate, Georgia’s two Republican Senators are throwing an election official from their own party under the bus in an apparent effort to indulge President Donald Trump’s baseless voter fraud conspiracies.
In a joint statement, Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) thoroughly bashed Georgia’s secretary of state Brad Raffensperger — who is a Republican.
“The mismanagement and lack of transparency from the Secretary of State is unacceptable,” the senators claimed, in their statement. “Honest elections are paramount to the foundation of our democracy. The Secretary of State has failed to deliver honest and transparent elections.”
They added, “He has failed the people of Georgia, and he should step down immediately.”
Numerous election observers say that the opposite is true — that, in fact, Georgia has actually been the most transparent state in reporting its results: