Raffensperger: 'Perdue Should Apologize To My Wife' For Death Threats

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Raffensperger on Fox: ‘Perdue Should Apologize To My Wife’ For Death Threats

In another chapter of drama unfolding in the final week of Georgia’s Senate runoff elections, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger called out Sen. David Perdue on Fox News for demanding his resignation, which he said led to death threats towards his family.

"Perdue still owes my wife an apology for all the death threats she got after he asked for my resignation,” he said. “I have not heard one peep from that man since. If he wants to call me, face to face, man to man, I'll talk to him, off the record. But he hasn't done that."

Raffensperger also refused to apologize or back down from Perdue’s statements, in which he said Raffensperger’s leak of his conversation with President Trump was “disgusting.”

https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/01/04/battleground-blog-raffensperger-perdue-should-apologize-my-wife-for-death-threats

[CottonBear]

1. I wonder if Raffensperger voted for Perdue in the runoff?

We know he voted for the Republicans in the general election.

[tavernier]

2. I'm thinking not!

But probably the other one.

[StarfishSaver]

4. I really wish someone would ask him this and whether he regrets voting for Trump twice

Until recently, he still claimed he didn't regret voting for Trump. I wonder how he'd now justify voting for a president he had to publicly expose as a liar and criminal.

[marble falls]

11. That would have been a real TV moment.

[JustAnotherGen]

19. We will only get that

If he goes on a Sunday Talk Show, MSNBC, or CNN. Fox would never ask that question.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. If he didn't see pukes for what they are before, he ought to now.

[Jillgirl]

8. He must have seen them for what they are, cuz he was one of them and still is.

He had lots of likely-Democratic voters removed from the voter rolls illegally. See https://www.gregpalast.com/stealing-georgia-raffensperger-is-no-hero/ .

[groundloop]

15. EXACTLY..... he's still a GOPer

Until he renounces voter suppression efforts I'll not have a lot of sympathy for him.

[TigressDem]

5. The ONLY "disgusting" part of the conversation was tRump. Telling the TRUTH IS the American Way.

AND this whole deal of political differences leading to DEATH THREATS, REALLY Reich Wing AMERICA? Grow up.

[DEbluedude]

6. "man to man..." Really?

They're like scared little children. Men don't behave like they do. Fuckin cowards. All of them.

[BobTheSubgenius]

22. That comment is very close to what I was going to say.

That the "man to man" part was the problem. More like "man to...something much less."

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Amazing to see political spine like this

I know he's a repuke often criticized for implementing voter purges, but he seems to be taking the role of election enforcement seriously.

A public spat over principle between Republicans. Rare indeed.

In a broader sense, when did death threats over everything become the norm? I don't recall this in 2000, or 2012. It's an escalation of rhetoric because everyone knows the crazies could actually follow through on such threats.

[Escurumbele]

10. Stacey Abrams didn't seem to have too much respect for Raffensperger last night on Maddow

Unfortunately, I was falling sleep at the moment she referred to them, but what I heard was that she thought they were only defending the process that they had implemented, kind of dismissing they were doing it out of principle alone.

She mentioned about the voter suppression that Kemp and Raffensperger have done the last two years...Here is the link to the interview:

[link:https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-two-of-the-most-egregious-voter-suppressors-abrams-points-to-kemp-raffensperger-records-98796613566|

[bullwinkle428]

14. I think she knows damn well that Raffensberger almost certainly played

a huge role in suppressing enough votes in 2018, which prevented her from achieving a victory over that dirty mofo Kemp.

[groundloop]

16. KEMP was in charge of that, WHILE he was running for governor

Don't forget that Kemp refused to recuse himself from his Secretary of State duties while concurrently running for Governor.

[LuckyLib]

20. She said something like "Let's not canonize Raffensberger"

on Colbert last night. She nailed it.

[gab13by13]

9. I heard he was very religious,

many people vote Republican on 1 issue, abortion.

[marble falls]

13. Though not as many when Reagan hooked onto the "kneejerk" aspect of abortion on voters.

[COL Mustard]

12. In Any Meeting Between Brad Raffensperger and David Perdue....

Brad is the only man there. Perdue is a chicken. Also a coward.

[mountain grammy]

17. How unrepublican of him..

to care about death threats to his wife.

[Evolve Dammit]

18. Death threats need to be investigated and the deporable(s) responsible charged with

criminal threatening. Take away their guns, lock 'em up for a while. This is not acceptable.

[KS Toronado]

21. Fun watching republicans going after each other, will see a lot of infighting tomorrow

while Pence is counting votes. Hope the circus with all the clowns is televised tomorrow.

[Dopers_Greed]

23. Oh, Perdue should apologize...

DURING HIS CONCESSION SPEECH