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‘He’s toast’: GOP leaves Raffensperger twisting in the wind
msn.com ^ | 3/28/21 | David Siders and Zach Montellaro

Posted on 03/29/2021 10:42:40 AM PDT by cotton1706

The former president is obsessed with defeating him next year. He’s getting mauled by his own state party. Last week alone, a Republican congressman announced he’d challenge in the primary and the state legislature voted to strip his office of some official powers.

By most accounts, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger doesn’t have a prayer of being reelected.

“He’s toast,” said Jay Williams, a Georgia-based Republican strategist. “I don’t know that there’s a single elected official who would put their neck out for Brad Raffensperger right now.”

Not everyone in state political circles is convinced Raffensperger’s political plight is so grim. Some still see a path to reelection, despite the serious resistance within his own party.

Either way, as the GOP forges its post-Trump era identity, Raffensperger’s reelection campaign is emerging as one of the earliest and most contentious test cases for the direction of the party. At issue is more than just whether critics of the former president can succeed in the party. It’s whether a Republican who rejects the lie that the last election was stolen has any chance of winning another one.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: backstabber; bradraffensperger; briankemp; deepstateagent; electionfraud; elections; georgia; gettrump; jaywilliams; raffensperger; staceyabrams; usefulidiot
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1 posted on 03/29/2021 10:42:40 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Dem media trying to resurrect Ratfaceberger.

Good luck with that.


2 posted on 03/29/2021 10:45:41 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: cotton1706
the lie that the last election was stolen

It's a fact the last election was stolen and no amount of propaganda is going to change that.
3 posted on 03/29/2021 10:47:28 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: cotton1706
The former president is obsessed with defeating him next year

If only the stogy GOP had more men like Trump who are OBSESSED with getting rid of scum

4 posted on 03/29/2021 10:48:04 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: romanesq

Why would they want to bring him back?


5 posted on 03/29/2021 10:49:02 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: cotton1706

learn to code


6 posted on 03/29/2021 10:49:02 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: romanesq

So much turmoil and upheaval occurred in 2020, that sometimes I forget about all the individual players.
In other words: Why are many GOP angry with Raffensperger and so gleeful at his poor re-election prospects?

Was he one of those republicans who said that there was no voter fraud? This would explain it.


7 posted on 03/29/2021 10:50:13 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: nickcarraway

It’s a boon to the TDS crowd. Anyone who caused harm in the election coup effort is fine with them.

Of course, even modifying election integrity means they’re racist too.
But that’s the deal.


8 posted on 03/29/2021 10:50:37 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: romanesq
What fallen Republican have the Dems ever resurrected?
9 posted on 03/29/2021 10:50:37 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: cotton1706
as the GOP forges its post-Trump era identity

Wishful Leftist thinking.

10 posted on 03/29/2021 10:51:34 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: cotton1706

No problem. His mission was accomplished. 😩


11 posted on 03/29/2021 10:52:48 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: cotton1706

What lie? It is a fact that the election was openly stolen. The Democrat Party did not try to hide the fact that they were going to steal the 2020 election.


12 posted on 03/29/2021 10:53:02 AM PDT by sport
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“I don’t know that there’s a single elected official who would put their neck out for Brad Raffensperger right now.”

I can name 6: Brian Kemp, Geoff Duncan, David Ralston, Carr, Miller, and Dugan

All 6 were actively part of what went on last November and January and helped usher in CornPop, Harris, Ossoff, Warnock.


13 posted on 03/29/2021 10:53:38 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: SmokingJoe

Charlie Crist, Florida, now a Rat from the 13th District. :(


14 posted on 03/29/2021 10:53:39 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: lee martell

Most 99 and 44/100% of Republican politicians are Democrats in disguise.


15 posted on 03/29/2021 10:55:03 AM PDT by sport
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To: JoSixChip

The Left doesn’t care about the fact, just about what they can force people to believe.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”


16 posted on 03/29/2021 10:56:44 AM PDT by Little Ray (The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)
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To: lee martell

Yes.

At one point said there was only two instances of dead folks voting. I believe it was later learned that the number was far, far higher than that.

In addition to signing consent decrees, that modified the election/voting rules, when he didn’t have the authority to do so. However, not all the blame is on him. The state legislature could have done their job but they were afraid of riots or were paid off or a combination of both, so they let Stacy Abrams and her sister steal two elections.


17 posted on 03/29/2021 10:56:54 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: SmokingJoe

Crist in Florida.


18 posted on 03/29/2021 10:57:17 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: cotton1706
Either way, as the GOP forges its post-Trump era identity,

The GOP is doing no such thing.

19 posted on 03/29/2021 10:57:48 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: qaz123

Arlen Specter.


20 posted on 03/29/2021 10:57:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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