US elections 2020 – Georgia Secretary of State does not let himself be discouraged – News

Brad Raffensperger does the recount in Georgia. The Republican feels the hatred of his party.

“Georgia in my mind,” jazz musician Ray Charles once sang melancholy. And Republicans are currently gazing longingly at their former bastion, which they lost in this presidential election.

The Trump campaign does not want to accept this. The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., made it clear three days after election day in Atlanta that his father would fight the election results – to the death. Democrats are probably not used to that of spineless Republicans. But this party is a thing of the past and anyone who doesn’t want to fight should leave.

In the fire camp of the Trump campaign

It was a demand for blood feud – and the camp fire was Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who is in charge of the election. The resignation requests were loud without any concrete reason: he had organized the elections in an inadequate and non-transparent way.

Raffensperger ordered a manual recount of all five million votes, as requested by the Trump campaign. But he also made it clear that he would make sure the result was correct.

Raffensperger defends himself

Apparently his group didn’t like hearing him. Trump loyalists have spread rumors on conservative TV channels of open ballot boxes, clandestine counting and lack of control over signatures on postal ballots. Verdict: The elections in Georgia were chaotic and Raffensperger was responsible for it. He deserves people’s anger.

The 65-year-old Secretary of State for Georgia is actually a reserved man who doesn’t seem particularly comfortable in the spotlight. As a qualified engineer, he counts grades with a precise scientific sense. And it defends itself from internal attacks on its own ranks.

A call from Senator Graham

Raffensperger dismantles individual rumors of election fraud on Facebook. Simply call the head of the Trump campaign in Georgia a liar. On CNN, he made a sensitive phone call with Senator Lindsey Graham: Graham had indicated that he should invalidate as many postal ballots as possible. This is also the strategy of the lawsuits of the Republicans and the Trump campaign.

Brad Raffensberger talks about insults and death threats against him and his wife – you always want to believe your side is wearing the clean slate. But people are really angry and the controversy is fierce, the secretary of state said.

There is the right

Raffensperger says he will also likely be disappointed with the result. He too had hoped for a republican victory. But there is a process that must be followed and there is the right. Integrity matters.

The recount, which will end today, did not reveal any major irregularities. One Republican district had forgotten to deposit about 3,000 votes, with a net gain of 800 votes for President Trump. But that doesn’t help him win in Georgia.