In extraordinary video, top Georgia GOP election official excoriates Senate GOP for abetting Trump

Kerry Eleveld

Daily Kos Staff

Tuesday December 01, 2020 · 3:02 PM PST

2020/12/01 · 15:02

ATLANTA, GA - NOVEMBER 06: Gabriel Sterling, Voting Systems Manager for the Georgia Secretary of State's office, answers questions during a press conference on the status of ballot counting on November 6, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. The 2020 presidential race between incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden is still too close to call with outstanding ballots in a number of states including Georgia. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images) — Gabriel Sterling, Voting Systems Manager for the Georgia Secretary of State's office, said the death threats resulting from Donald Trump's baseless fraud claims were going to get someone killed.

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A top Georgia election official issued a searing indictment Tuesday of his GOP colleagues in Washington for helping to fan the flames of Donald Trump's baseless fraud claims.

Detailing a series of death threats made against elected officials and private citizens alike following Trump’s attack on the state’s election results, lifelong conservative Gabriel Sterling, a top aide to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, told reporters the whole situation had gotten out of hand and someone could end up dead because of it.

"It has to stop!" Sterling implored of the threats to his boss, his boss' wife, and various other officials and private citizens caught in the crossfire. "Mr. President, you have not condemned these actions or this language. Senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions. This has to stop. We need you to step up and, if you're going to take a position of leadership, show some."

“This is elections,” Sterling continued, “This is the backbone of democracy. And all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this. … Someone’s going to get hurt, someone’s going to get shot, someone’s going to get killed. And it’s not right.”

Both of the state’s GOP senators facing runoffs in January—Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue—have fully backed Trump’s fraud claims.

Watch it:

"It. Has. All. Gone. Too. Far," says @GabrielSterling with Georgia Sec of State after a Dominion tech's life was threatened with a noose. "Mr. President, you have not condemned these actions or this language....all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this." pic.twitter.com/OnHaxgpJx6
— Brendan Keefe (@BrendanKeefe) December 1, 2020

In extraordinary video, top Georgia GOP election official excoriates Senate GOP for abetting Trump

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