Georgia’s Election Denying Lt. Governor Attacks 2020 Hero Brad Raffensperger Over ‘Election Integrity’
Georgia’s election-denying Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones (R) debuted a new broadside against his fellow Republican, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, over his supposed failure to champion “election integrity” on Monday.
“Has anyone seen Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger? You know, the same guy who’s supposed to uphold our state’s election integrity?” asked the ad’s narrator, who went on to lay into him for his failure to attend state senate appropriations and election hearings, as well as for supposedly having “only worked 42 days this year.”
“How are we supposed to have safe, secure, honest elections if our state’s chief elections officer is missing?”
Raffensperger has been a target of loyalists to former President Donald Trump since he refused Trump’s request that he throw the 2020 presidential election in the Peach State to him by finding more votes for him than he actually received.
Primary challengers attempted to beat out both Raffensperger and Governor Brian Kemp for the Republican nomination for their respective positions in 2022 by arguing that they had done the wrong thing in refusing Trump, but both prevailed in both the primary and general elections.
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of having a Secretary of State who has shown up to work 42 days this year and hid behind his staff to do his job while showboating on liberal TV shows.
Since 2021, Brad Raffensperger has spent 70% of the time away from his job—missing… pic.twitter.com/Rezd72nlTM
— Burt Jones (@burtjonesforga) November 13, 2023
Jones was a vocal believer in and propagator of Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. In December of that year, Jones signed a petition calling on Kemp to convene the Georgia legislature to reallocate the state’s electoral votes.
“Georgia Patriot Call to Action: today is the day we need you to call your state Senate & House Reps & ask them to sign the petition for a special session. We must have free & fair elections in GA & this is our only path to ensuring every legal vote is counted. @realDonaldTrump,” wrote Jones on X while promoting the petition.
The lieutenant governor was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Fulton County election case brought against Trump in August.
