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Trump admin. censures threats against election workers

Wednesday, 02 December 2020 7:28 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 02 December 2020 7:28 PM ]

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany speaks during a briefing at the White House on December 2, 2020, in Washington, DC. / AFP / Brendan Smialowski

The White House has denounced threats against the election workers as President Donald Trump refuses to concede defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

“We condemn any threats against anyone, there’s no place for violence against anyone,” said White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday. “We’re seeing it happen to people on both sides of the argument and there’s no place for it, ever, anywhere.”

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The outgoing president had filed several lawsuits in battleground states in the wake of the November 3 election in the hope of overturning the results in favor of now President.-elect Joe Biden.

“Even after this office requested that President Trump try and quell the violent rhetoric being born out of his continuing claims of winning the states where he obviously lost, he tweeted out: ‘Expose the massive voter fraud in Georgia.' This is exactly the kind of language that is at the base of the growing threat environment for election workers who are simply doing their jobs," said Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

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“I’ve received death threats, a number of these officials have received death threats, and to me, there aren’t good words to describe how un-American and undemocratic it is that the actual individuals responsible for the process of this most sacred democratic institution of elections are the ones that are getting the blowback here,” Krebs said at a virtual event hosted by The Washington Post.

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