Brad Raffensperger dares Trump to debate him on bogus election claims

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger hit back at former President Donald Trump's attacks this week — and challenged him to a debate over election integrity, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

"A few days after Trump slammed Raffensperger at the Georgia GOP convention in Columbus to the delight of thousands of delegates, the secretary of state trekked to west Georgia to deliver his own speech," reported Greg Bluestein and Tia Mitchell. "After addressing the LaGrange-Troup County Chamber of Commerce, WRBL’s Chuck Williams pressed Raffensperger about the most recent in a spate of attacks after famously denying Trump’s demand to 'find' enough votes to overturn his election defeat."

"Maybe it’s time that he and I get together," Raffensperger, himself a conservative Republican, told WRBL. "Well, I would say why don’t he and I go out to the Reagan Library? We’ll have a debate. I’ll bring a copy of my letter to Congress and I’ll bring a copy of my book, ‘Integrity Counts.’ … And we’ll debate the issues point by point, because the facts on my side and he doesn’t.”

Trump has not yet responded to the challenge, noted the article — possibly because he is currently distracted by his federal Espionage Act indictment for hoarding national defense information at his Mar-a-Lago country club in south Florida.

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The Trump-Raffensperger phone call has been a key focus of a separate criminal investigation in Georgia, conducted by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Another focal point of that investigation is the slate of fake Trump "electors" who were declared in Georgia after President Joe Biden carried the state. The chair of the Georgia Republican Party, David Shafer, who served as one of the fake electors, has come under particular suspicion; he has claimed Trump's lawyers advised him to participate in the scheme.