Cleta Mitchell baselessly claims ‘creep’ Brad Raffensperger called in bomb threat against himself

By Zachary Roth

Cleta Mitchell speaks at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference in Camp Hill, Pa., Friday, April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Cleta Mitchell has accused Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), without evidence, of calling in a bomb threat after a suspicious object was found near a planned Raffensperger campaign stop.

“Good grief, Erick!  How can you keep shilling for this creep?” Mitchell wrote on X Wednesday in response to the right-wing pundit Erick Erickson. “Have you NOT seen through him yet?  His lies? His deceit?   He probably called in the bomb threat himself. The arrival of first responders probably doubled the size of the “crowd” at a @VoteBradRaff rally.”

Mitchell, a prominent anti-voting activist who played a key role in President Donald Trump’s failed bid to steal the 2020 election, levelled the allegation after Raffensperger said Tuesday there was an “active threat” near a planned event for his gubernatorial campaign. 

The sheriff’s office in Bibb County, Georgia, said they found a “suspicious object” inside a vending machine at an airport in Macon. The campaign had announced a stop there for 10am Tuesday.

And the campaign has said that a local sheriff’s office in Mississippi received a manifesto Monday, whose front page had a photo of Raffensperger, with “boom” written across his face.

Raffensperger angered Trump, Mitchell, and MAGA when he resisted Trump’s pressure to “find” him the votes needed to win Georgia in 2020. But he has also supported numerous restrictions aimed at making voting more difficult. 

Mitchell has been aggressive on social media in opposing Raffensperger’s bid for governor, as well as Raffensperger deputy Gabe Sterling’s campaign for secretary of state. 

“Only 6 days after today to send these 2 scumbags to the outhouse of shame,” she wrote Wednesday.