‘This Was a Threat’: Georgia Secretary of State Reflects on Trump Call To ‘Find’ Votes

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) says former President Donald Trump’s request to help “find” votes to overturn the 🗳️2020 Presidential Election results “was a threat.”

Raffensperger reflected on the phone conversation in his new book released Tuesday, “Integrity Counts,” as The Associated Press reports.

He wrote, “I felt then — and still believe today — that this was a threat,” adding, “Others obviously thought so, too, because some of Trump’s more radical followers have responded as if it was their duty to carry out this threat.”

The Hill noted Raffensperger included in the book a roughly 40-page transcript of the call.

He wrote in an annotation of the call, “This repeated request for votes showed me that President Trump really had no idea how elections work. The secretary of state’s office doesn’t allocate any votes.”

Raffensperger told the outlet, “At the time of the call in January, I didn’t know if he believed what he was saying. I didn’t know if he was trying to push a narrative, or was he just believing stuff that was fed to him?”

As a conservative, the Georgia secretary of state explained he is “disappointed like everyone else is. But the cold hard facts are that President Trump did come up short in the state of Georgia.”