'It's surreal': the US officials facing violent threats as Trump claims voter fraud

Georgians from both parties describe violent and sexual threats to themselves and their families as militias make their presence known

On 1 December Gabriel Sterling, a Republican election official in Georgia, stood on the steps of the state capitol in Atlanta and let rip on Donald Trump.

Mr President, it looks like you likely lost the state of Georgia," he said, contradicting Trump's increasingly unhinged claim that he had won the presidential race against all evidence.