Former President Donald Trump on April 5 criticized the governor and lieutenant governor of Georgia for allegedly forcing the state’s legislature to water down a set of election reforms enacted late last month.
“Too bad the desperately needed election reforms in Georgia didn’t go further, as their originally approved Bill did, but the Governor and Lt. Governor would not go for it,” Trump said in a statement released through his Save America political action committee.
“The watered-down version, that was just passed and signed by Governor Kemp, while better than before, doesn’t have Signature Matching and many other safety measures, which were sadly left out. This Bill should have been passed before the 2020 Presidential Election, not after,” the former president added.
In a statement following the signing of the bill, Kemp said it would make it harder to cheat and easier to vote.
The election reforms in Georgia have become the target of left-wing attacks, disinformation, and boycotts. Delta and Coca-Cola issued formal statements criticizing the new law. Major League Baseball moved the annual All-Star game out of Atlanta to express its “values as a sport” in response to the passage of the measure.
Trump on Monday reiterated a call to boycott the companies opposing Georgia’s election reforms.
“Boycott all of the woke companies that don’t want Voter I.D. and Free and Fair Elections,” the former president said.
Trump also claimed that “the Democrats in Georgia really push the Republicans around.”
As an example, the former president referred to the consent decree signed by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, which made it nearly impossible to reject absentee ballots based on signature mismatches. The new election reforms limit the kind of decrees the Peach State’s secretary of state can enter into going forward.
“It is now reported that chain of custody records for over 400,000 Absentee Ballots are missing or not being shown. I wonder why? Show them now!” Trump wrote.