Someone’s Going to Get killed’: GOP Election Official Pleads with Trump Allies to Stop Inciting Violence
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On Tuesday, Gabriel Sterling, a top Republican Georgia election official made an emotional plea for Republicans to tone down their voter fraud rhetoric, saying it prompted threats and harassment. While left-leaning articles highlight that Sterling’s public chastisement is one of the strongest rebukes yet of Trump’s baseless attacks on the election’s integrity by a Republican, right-leaning articles highlight Representative Dan Crenshaw said that “everything is on the line” for Republicans in the upcoming Georgia Senate runoff elections.
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights that Sterling’s public chastisement is one of the strongest rebukes yet of Trump’s baseless attacks on the election’s integrity by a Republican. Sterling said that for him, the last straw came when a 20-year-old technician for Georgia’s voting machine contractor was targeted by far-right social media users who falsely claimed they had video footage of him manipulating election data.
NPR published a centrist article reporting that Georgia allies of President Trump continue to push baseless accusations of voter fraud, and at a rally Wednesday, even discouraged Georgia residents from voting in the January 5 Senate runoff election. Trump responded to Sterling’s emotional plea with a tweet that falsely continued to promote the notion of widespread fraud.
A right-leaning article by Fox News highlights that Representative Dan Crenshaw said on Wednesday that “everything is on the line” for Republicans in the upcoming Georgia Senate runoff elections. Really American PAC, a progressive political action committee, launched a billboard campaign that aims to convince President Trump’s backers not to support incumbent Republican candidates Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
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