Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a conservative, has been coming under fire from fellow Republicans who are furious that President-elect Joe Biden won Georgia in the 2020 presidential election. One of those Republicans is Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. And according to Raffensperger, Graham demanded to know why he isn’t doing more to get absentee ballots thrown out. Graham has claimed that Raffensperger mischaracterized their conversation, but the Georgia secretary of state says that two members of his staff can back him up.
Raffensperger told CBS News, “Sen. Graham implied for us to audit the envelopes and then throw out the ballots for counties who had the highest frequency error of signatures.” Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, denies telling Raffensperger that. But at a press conference this week, Raffensperger told reporters, “That’s just ridiculous. If he feels threatened by that conversation, he’s got a problem. I actually thought it was a good conversation.”
Raffensperger told the Wall Street Journal that two staff members who heard his phone conversation with Graham can back up his account of the senator’s statements. Continue reading.