Georgia secretary of state reveals Trump 'suppressed' GOP voters: 'He would have won by 10,000 votes

[12over]

Source: WSB’s Justin Gray

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Tuesday said that President Donald Trump had himself to blame for losing the state’s electoral votes in the 2020 election.

Raffensperger told WSB’s Justin Gray that 24,000 Republicans who voted by absentee ballot in the primary did not cast votes in the general election.

The secretary of state linked the lack of participation to Trump’s effort to demonize mail-in voting.

“He would have won by 10 thousand votes — he actually suppressed, depressed his own voting base,” Raffensperger said.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/georgia-secretary-of-state-reveals-trump-suppressed-gop-voters-he-would-have-won-by-10000-votes/

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I mean, who saw that coming?

answer - Everyone.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Quelle surprise...

[mr_lebowski]

2. This dude has got a set on him I gotta say ... Trump is gonna be PISSED lololololol

As an aside, forthwith, there's going to be

ZOMG 24,000 stolen mail-in Republican ballots, per the GA SoS! Was it the Postal Workers Union? Dominion?!? Trump needs to get to the bottom of this!!!1!

all over the wingnutosphere ...

[Happy Hoosier]

3. He seems pretty irritated with the GOP shitting on him.

These fuckers will ABSOLUTELY eat their own.

[Jim__]

4. Losers always find a way to lose.

[TomCADem]

5. Slightly Disagree, Because There Is No Mention of Net Impact...

...for example, what were the net newly registered voters? In other words, did the presence of Trump on the ballot cause more racists to register and vote Republican? Likewise, how many Democrats who voted in the primaries did not vote in the general election perhaps due to the same voter suppression that the Republican SOS complains about?

In other words, while the GA SOS is right that voter suppression skews election results (or Republicans would not bother doing it), it is not necessarily true that Trump was the one that was hurt by it. Given that a lot of voter suppression is targeted toward urban areas, a better argument could be made that Biden would have won by a larger margin but for voter suppression.

[Karma13612]

6. Considering all the crap the SOS has had to put up with

During the recount, I am wondering if he just said this to pi$$ off Trump?

[Talitha]

8. Hopefully, yes.

[Thekaspervote]

7. Agree.. exit polls showed that the AA youth vote was a big part of Biden's win

[DeminPennswoods]

16. Who knows how those voters would have voted

It's not a given they would've been 100% for Trump which is what Rappensberger's assumption is (24000-14000=10000).

[skip fox]

9. I love to hear this and savor the irony, but

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I also know it will only anger ("I should have won!" ) and embolden ("Let these people mail their ballots now!" ) We need the true will of the American people to be heard!" him.

Fasten seat-belts.

[procon]

10. Genius. nt

[icwlmuscyia]

11. That famous quote from Pogo (old cartoon): "We have met the enemy and he is us"

[efhmc]

12. Help me, please. Is there still a hand count going on in Georgia?

[SWBTATTReg]

13. Finished from what I understand, no discrepancies.

[DeminPennswoods]

17. A small discrepency with a batch of 2400 or 2500

votes found that were not loaded into the vote tabulator.

[padah513]

18. Yep

Amounts to 800+ votes for trump, if I'm not mistaken. Still comes up about 13000 short

[efhmc]

29. Not done.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142631705

[SWBTATTReg]

30. Thanks. It's been kind of confusing to track all of the stupid trump lawsuits, recounts, etc. going

on.

[efhmc]

31. Very confusing.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Wow, that is unexpected

We did as well as we did because of Trump. Not sure I'm not having indigestion.

[Turbineguy]

15. Dumbfuck outthinks himself.

[HuskyOffset]

19. Outwitting Trump: so easy, even Trump can do it! (NT)

[Marcuse]

20. Who knew he wasn't as corrupt as the last Georgia Secretary of State (now Governor).

[oldsoftie]

22. He wasnt "supposed" to win in '18 either. He did it on his own.

Self funded & ran against the "chosen one"; and beat him in the primary.

[mdbl]

21. Damn! And here I was proud of my state

and it was all because of trump.

[flibbitygiblets]

23. Well then we'd better hope pResident "Rigged Election" will still be depressing Republican in Jan

if we have any hope of getting those Senate seats

[diva77]

24. I interpret this statement as 'the usual voter suppression would have worked if dump had stayed out

of it"

[rocktivity]

25. Well, duh dot com

rocktivity

[Nitram]

26. I believe the word "reveals" is inaccurate. It sounds more like his opinion.

His opinion may be correct, but I doubt there is an concrete evidence that there is a cause and effect correlation between Trump's attack on mail-in voting and the loss of 10,000 Republican votes. Think about it.

[Sapient Donkey]

27. I agree. I don't know if that suggests what he says it doe, but it's still hilarious to say

because we all know it's going to piss off Trump.

[truthisfreedom]

28. Hoist on his own petard.

Absolute classic case of his karma running over his dogma.

[Vivienne235729]

32. ....or maybe they didn't WANT to vote for him so they didn't make the effort

I have heard of plenty of Republicans that said they will just sit out this election bc they didn't want to vote for trump.