Without evidence, Georgia’s U.S. senators demand elections head resign – By Mark Niesse & Greg Bluestein (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) / Nov 9 2020
Georgia’s two U.S. senators called on the state’s top elections official, a fellow Republican, to resign on Monday in a shocking attempt to appease President Donald Trump and his supporters ahead of Jan. 5 runoffs for likely control of the U.S. Senate.
U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue provided no evidence to back up claims of unspecified “failures” with the November election that was overseen by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who said flatly that calls for his dismissal were “not going to happen.”
The two Republicans were attempting to energize conservatives upset over Trump’s loss to President-elect Joe Biden, who is on the cusp of becoming the first Democrat to flip Georgia for the first time since 1992. Biden led Trump by over 11,500 votes Monday afternoon.
But the criticism, joining a chorus of far-right politicians who have falsely claimed irregularities with the election, flies in the face of comments from other state elections officials and other Republican leaders who say there’s no evidence of any fraud or wrongdoing.
