Two top Georgia Republicans who President Trump has attacked in his postelection campaign to subvert President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the …
Two top Georgia Republicans who President Trump has attacked in his postelection campaign to subvert President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the state forcefully pushed back against the White House on Monday. Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, once again rebuffed the president’s demand that he review ballot signatures as part of a second audit that is nevertheless expected to affirm Mr. Biden’s win later this week, and the state’s governor, Brian Kemp, stood by him. In two tweets early Monday, Mr. Trump said that Mr. Kemp should use emergency powers to overrule Mr. Raffensperger and compare the number of envelopes and ballots. The president claimed that doing so would reveal rampant fraud, an assertion that has been rejected by the state’s Republican elections officials. Mr. Trump called the governor “hapless.” Mr. Kemp flatly rejected him. “Georgia law prohibits the Governor from interfering in elections,” Mr.
