The political tide is shifting in favor of former President Donald Trump, who was long seen as invincible by rivals because of his sizable, devoted voter base and is now receiving greater criticism from Republican rivals and party leaders.
Since the announcement of his second indictment, 2024 GOP contenders who had previously refrained from criticizing any of his activities and had even avoided mentioning his name are now lining up to do so.
But it goes beyond the front-runners. Brad Raffensperger, the Republican Georgia secretary of state whom Trump compelled to annul the results of the 2020 election over a taped conference call on January 2, 2021, is the source of Trump’s most recent challenge. An accusation decision was anticipated this summer as a result of the hour-long call, which sparked a criminal investigation in Fulton County.
At his rallies, Trump has regularly criticized Raffensperger. On Saturday, he repeated his criticism of the call as “perfect” and made speculative statements about the outcome of the election. The Georgia crowd eventually started to jeer Raffensperger as a result.
Raffensperger is now retaliating. On Thursday, he told WRBL that a meeting between him and Trump on the debate stage might be in order.
Furthermore, Raffensperger doesn’t care too much about the debate stage. He is offering to visit any Republican institute, such as the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Texas, the Dole Institute of Politics in Kansas, or the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.
Raffensperger promised a discussion. “I’ll bring a copy of my letter to Congress and a copy of my book, ‘Integrity Counts. He claimed that a study from Berkeley Research Group and Simpatico Software Systems, two companies hired by the Trump campaign to look into allegations of voter fraud in Georgia, may be brought by the former president. No indication of pervasive fraud was discovered by Berkeley and Simpatico.
The Georgia secretary of state stated that since the evidence is in favor of Raffensperger, we will discuss each argument individually. It’s uncertain and improbable that Trump would consent to that discussion. Even after threatening to boycott the GOP primary debates, he hasn’t agreed to debate his 2024 opponents. His justifications include the fact that he is the front-runner and doesn’t need to, as well as the notion that the venues and networks aren’t in his favor.
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