Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting systems manager, is just exasperated. "It has all gone too far." A technician in Gwinnett County was told he should be hung for treason. The Secretary of State's wife is getting "sexualized threats."
"It has to stop."
"It has to stop."
Sterling, a Georgia election official and a Republican: "Mr. President. It looks like you likely lost the state of Georgia. ... Stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence. Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed."
"These are elections. One of our goals was to make elections boring again. Well guess what, that didn't happen. This is all wrong."
Sterling means "Sen. David Perdue and Sen. Kelly Loeffler, two people whom I still support in the election booth, but they need to step up on this particular thing. And that's me speaking as a Republican, not in this office cuz I probably stepped out of line but I'm kinda pissed"
Sterling says Trump's statement that Brad Raffensperger is an "enemy of the people" "helped open the floodgates to this kind of crap. ... There are some nutballs out there who are going to take this and say 'The president told me to do this.'
"You have to be responsible."
"You have to be responsible."
Sterling: "You have to be responsible. You have to be responsible in your rhetoric, you have to be responsible in your statements, you have to be responsible in your deeds. That shouldn't be too much to ask from people who ask us to give them responsibility."
Video, which is worth your time. You don't see many statements like this from public officials, especially not ones directed at the leading figures of his own party.
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1333885609027514372
A spokesman for President Trump's campaign responds: "No one should engage in threats or violence, and if that has happened, we condemn that fully.”
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