Georgia GOP governor says he understands Trump's frustration, but maintains he's following state laws

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'At the end of the day, I've got to follow the laws of the constitution of this state and that's exactly what I'm doing,' said Brian Kemp.

He mentioned that votes had been discovered during the audit in Floyd, Fayette, Walton and Douglas counties that weren't originally tallied. Although these votes had no effect on the outcome of the election, Kemp called the audit"simply unacceptable." While Biden won Douglas County, Trump led in Floyd, Fayette and Walton.

The hand count showed some slight differences from the machine tally, but no individual county showed a variation in margin larger than 0.73 percent and the variation in margin in 103 of 159 counties was less than 0.05%, according to the Associated Press. Raffensperger's office added that the signatures on absentee ballot applications and envelopes are required to be checked when they're received and the audit only ensures that the voting machines counted the ballots correctly.

But the state's Republican governor hasn't been exempt from attacks by the GOP, and especially not from Trump's tweets. On Friday, the president accused Kemp and Raffensperger of refusing to let his campaign look at the signatures on the ballots, alleging without evidence that they would prove a Republican victory.

 

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You should of done that your last election.

Frustration that he took an ass whoopin?

What frustration? The attempted coup to overthrow the will of the voters because Trump doesn't like the result? This is an undemocratic, unpatriotic, pathetic and dangerous suck-up by the GA governor.

Frustration over what?!

Trump lost fair and square I have no idea why he is defending trump and his hurt feelings

Yeah. We understand it sucks to be a loser and there are no points for second place. Now get out of our House.

A true leader

Cheater s cheat... corruption is real and so is the deep state.

Understands losing?

Was that an oxymoron?

Maybe his 'understanding' would be better placed by recognizing the frustration of 80 million Americans who voted for Trump's ouster.

In other words trump is full of rubbish

How can he understand Trump's frustration AND agree to the truth that GA is following its laws on voting?

never too late to be a mensch

Laws are designed to frustrate criminals.

Trump is a man baby

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