Georgia's Republican top election official Brad Raffensperger says he believes President Trump's attacks on mail voting suppressed his own base.<br />In fact, Raffensperger says Trump's baseless claims that mail voting is untrustworthy and fraudulent cost him the state.<br />According to Business Insider, 24,000 Republicans who voted by mail in the state's June 9 primary elections did not vote at all in the general election.<br />While Trump outperformed the polls in many states, he lost the key battleground states of Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, in addition to Georgia.<br />What's more, an even higher number of Georgia Democrats who voted in the primaries stayed home for the general.<br />Trump was the first Republican presidential nominee to lose Georgia since George H.W. Bush in 1992.
