The Georgia Republican Party passed a resolution on Saturday to censure Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) after he refused to act on former President Trump’s false claims of election fraud in the state, despite mounting pressure.
Trump in January asked Raffensperger to overturn his loss to then-President-elect Biden in the state, despite Biden securing nearly 12,000 more votes. Trump claimed that fraud had infiltrated the election.
“All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state,” Trump told Raffensperger in a January phone call, according to audio obtained by The Washington Post.
State Republicans said they were censuring Raffensperger for “dereliction of his constitutional duty,” according to a copy of the resolution obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Here’s a version of the resolution that just passed at the GOP convention that “censured” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for “dereliction of his Constitutional duty” and calls on @GovKemp to “repair the damage that has been done.” #gapol pic.twitter.com/l5mE8Mbg9L
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) June 5, 2021