I do think it's important that we send the message very loud and clear that you will not stand for this in the state of Georgia, that if you try and intimidate election officials, if you try and intimidate people who are working the polls, that there will be a price to pay.
Bottoms stresses the need for a strong message against intimidation of election officials in Georgia.
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There’s not a single community that you go into in this state that hasn’t been touched by our refusal to expand Medicaid.
But it is reassuring to know that no matter who you are, if you break the law, if you try and intimidate people and try and deny people their votes, that their votes be counted, that there will be a penalty to be paid.
This is extraordinary, in and of itself, of the fact that we have a President of the United States, interfering with an election, the fact that we are looking at criminal charges, against a former President of the United States.