Trump turns up heat on Georgia 共和国の／共和党の in fight to overturn 選挙 loss
By Nathan Layne
CUTHBERT, Ga., Jan 3 (Reuters) - Georgia's 共和国の／共和党の 長官 of 明言する／公表する, Brad Raffensperger, 固く結び付けるd his status as an ありそうもない hero for U.S. 民主党員s に引き続いて a fresh 衝突／不一致 in which he 拒絶するd 大統領 Donald Trump's （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that his 選挙 敗北・負かす was the result of 普及した 詐欺.
Trump returned the 65-year-old former 実業家 to the limelight when he called Raffensperger on Saturday to badger him to "find" enough 投票（する）s to 逆転する Democratic 大統領-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 明言する／公表する, によれば 音声部の of the hour-long call published by the Washington 地位，任命する on Sunday.
As Georgia's 最高の，を越す 選挙 公式の／役人, Raffensperger oversaw 多重の recounts of the Nov. 3 投票（する）s, each of which reached the same result -- that the southern 明言する／公表する had 辛うじて 好意d a Democratic 大統領の 候補者 for the first time in a 世代. He has 公約するd to fight any 未来 選挙 詐欺 even as he echoed the findings of his 相当するものs across the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs that there was no 証拠 of 普及した 詐欺 in November.
He has also 繰り返して 押し進めるd 支援する against Trump's unfounded （人命などを）奪う，主張するs of 詐欺, even after the 大統領，／社長 labeled him an "enemy of the people". He did so again on Saturday's call, telling Trump the 投票（する） showed Biden was the rightful 勝利者.
"井戸／弁護士席 Mr. 大統領, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong," Raffensperger could be heard telling Trump on the 記録，記録的な／記録するing of Saturday's call.
The White House 拒絶する／低下するd to comment. Raffensperger's office did not 答える／応じる to a request for comment.
But he and his 同僚s for weeks have been 警告 that Trump's rhetoric placed them and their 同僚s in danger.
"Stop 奮起させるing people to commit 可能性のある 行為／法令／行動するs of 暴力／激しさ. Someone's going to get 傷つける, someone's going to get 発射, someone's going to get killed," Gabriel 英貨の／純銀の, the 経営者／支配人 of the 明言する／公表する's 投票（する）ing systems, said at an emotional Dec. 1 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会.
N oting that Raffensperger's wife had been getting sexualized 脅しs, he 追加するd, "It has all gone too far. It has to stop."
REPUTATION AS 'STRAIGHT SHOOTER'
After years as a civil engineer and successful 実業家, Raffensperger served two years on a city 会議 and four years in Georgia's 衆議院 before 後継するing now-知事 Brian Kemp in 2018 as the 最高の，を越す 選挙 公式の／役人.
知識s of Raffensperger in the 明言する／公表する House 述べるd him as a "straight shooter" who 支援するd 伝統的な 共和国の／共和党の 優先s, supporting a 法案 to 削減（する） 規則s on small 商売／仕事s, for example, and 投票（する）ing against a 税金 on ガソリン, によれば a profile in the Atlanta 定期刊行物-憲法.
A lifelong 共和国の／共和党の, Raffensperger was an 早期に 支持者 of Trump in 2016, and the 大統領，／社長 returned the 好意 by 是認するing him for 長官 of 明言する／公表する. But whatever 好意／親善 存在するd between the two men has since disappeared.
"Brad Raffensperger: he's not some 自由主義の. Like he's no hero of 地雷," Hillary Rosen, a Democratic strategist, said on CNN. "He is a solid 保守的な 共和国の／共和党の standing up to the 大統領，／社長. That's what makes it so 重要な."
Trump's relentless attacks since the Nov. 3 選挙 含むd an 告訴，告発 that Raffensperger hid tens of thousands of 違法な 投票（する）s, 確実にするing Biden's victory. Georgia's 共和国の／共和党の 現職の 上院議員s - David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler -- have called on Raffensperger to 辞職する.
Perdue and Loeffler themselves are locked in tight （選挙などの）運動をするs ahead of Tuesday run-off 選挙s that will 決定する which party 支配（する）／統制するs the U.S. 上院.
Raffensperger has come under 解雇する／砲火／射撃 from the party 設立 across the 明言する／公表する for not bending to Trump's will.
Ronald Ham, the 共和国の／共和党の party's 長，率いる in 田舎の Brantley 郡, said Raffensperger should take Trump's 主張s about 投票者 詐欺 more 本気で. He said there were discussions の中で some party leaders about 解任するing him.
"I've been a little too 批判的な of Brad, b ut where there is so much smoke I would want to 立証する," Ham said. "He's a good guy, but he won't 生き残る re-選挙 if he gets that far."
Raffensperger told the Atlanta 定期刊行物-憲法 in late November that he and his wife of 44 years had leaned on their 約束 to 対処する with the 圧力.
"We're straightforward people, simple people," Raffensperger said. "We're 静かな people in an unquiet 役割." (報告（する）／憶測ing by Nathan Layne in Cuthbert; Editing by Scott Malone and Daniel Wallis)
