Georgia SOS Raffensperger Pushes Back Against Fellow Republicans, Trump

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is buying a new voter registration system for the state's 7 million voters. (Brynn Anderson/AP photo)

Brynn Anderson / Associated Press

Updated Tuesday at 10:16 a.m.

Georgia’s secretary of state is a man on an island, and the political flood is rising fast, as President Donald Trump and his allies vent their outrage at the fellow Republican and make unsupported claims that mismanagement and fraud tainted the state’s presidential election.

Trump spent the weekend attacking Brad Raffensperger on social media, at one point calling him “a so-called Republican (RINO),” an acronym for “Republican in name only.” Raffensperger punched back, disputing Trump’s claims that he made it easier for Democrats to cheat using mail-in ballots.