Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger, Who Refused to “Find” Votes for Donald Trump, Prepares for Another Election

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Amid threats, Georgia’s secretary of state describes how he convinces Republican voters that elections are fair.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of W NYC Studios and the New Yorker.
0:11.2	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Rannick.
0:14.0	If you can name the Secretary of State for whatever state you live in,
0:19.0	go ahead and give yourself a gold star in civics.
0:22.0	But to be honest, I can't name be honest I can't name mine I can't name
0:24.4	any of the other 49 secretaries of state either well there's one big exception
0:29.5	Brad Raffinsberger the Secretary of State for Georgia.
0:33.5	He became a national figure during a phone call that you probably heard about.
0:38.8	So look, all I want to do is this.
0:41.8	I just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more that we have because we won the state. That was Donald Trump after the
0:56.0	2020 election and he was in a lousy mood. You guys are so wrong and you've treated
1:02.0	this you've created the population of
1:04.2	Georgia so badly you between you and your governor but but why wouldn't you want to
1:10.4	find the right answer Brad instead of keep saying that the numbers are right?
1:15.7	Because those numbers are so wrong.
1:19.0	After resisting Trump's demands, Raffensberger became the target of death threats from people in his own Republican Party.
1:27.2	The phone call is a lynchpin in the racketeering case against Trump, led by the Fulton County
1:31.8	DA,
1:32.6	Fawnee Willis.
1:34.3	So what are we going to do here, but I only need 11,000 votes.
1:37.4	Fellas, I need 11,000 votes.
1:39.7	Give me a break.
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