"Sore loser's crusade": Lawmakers react to FBI raid on Georgia election center
Source: Salon
Published January 29, 2026 4:23PM (EST)
Lawmakers and state officials in Georgia are sounding off in the wake of a Wednesday FBI raid on an Atlanta-area election center. The raid was launched in hopes of finding documentation and records related to the 2020 election. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., called a “sore loser’s crusade” by President Donald Trump.
“From Minnesota to Georgia, on display to the whole world is a President spiraling out of control, wielding federal law enforcement as an unaccountable instrument of personal power and revenge,” Ossoff said.
Fulton County Commission Chair Robb Pitts said he was “not surprised” that the center was raided. “We’ve known all along that Fulton County has been a target for obvious reasons,” Pitts said at a Wednesday press conference, calling the prior elections “legal” and “fair.”
Pitts added that the counted votes were “secure” in the county’s possession, but he after their seizure by the FBI could “no longer satisfy … that those ballots are still secure.” Fulton County Democratic Commissioner Mo Ivory called the raid “an assault on voters.”
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2026/01/29/sore-losers-crusade-lawmakers-react-to-fbi-raid-on-georgia-election-center/
(Greg Bluestein is the Chief politics reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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Reached by phone, Fulton County Clerk Che’ Alexander tells @ShaddiAbusaid a large number of federal agents were retreving boxes of ballots from the warehouse where they were being stored.
“The FBI agents are here to get the 2020 ballots,” Alexander said. “They’re all here--
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Fulton County Commissioner Mo Ivory: “This is an assault on your vote.”
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