Georgia secretary of state demands Republican Senate candidate 'apologize to my wife for the death threats' she received after he called for official's resignation as GOP tears itself apart over fraud claims

Brad Raffensperger lamented Monday that he still hasn't received an apology from Senator David Perdue for the death threats his wife received after he asked the Georgia secretary of state to step down in November.

While appearing on Fox News on Monday, Raffensperger deflected when asked about Perdue calling him 'disgusting' for releasing a damaging call between himself and President Donald Trump.

'Senator Perdue still owes my wife an apology for all the death threats she got after he asked for my resignation,' Raffensperger said.

He complained: 'I have not heard one peep from that man since. If he wants to call me, face to face, man to man, I'll talk to him, off the record. But he hasn't done that.'

The Fox News host told Raffensperger that it 'feels like this is a grudge' between himself and the president and himself and Perdue.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told Fox News on Monday that Senator David Perdue has still not apologized to his wife after calls from the senator for him to resign triggered a slew of threatening messages

Perdue called for Raffensperger to resign in the midst of recounting presidential ballots in Georgia. Soon after, Raffensperger's wife Tricia started receiving threatening messages from mostly Republicans

Perdue and fellow Georgia Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler called for Raffensperger to step down as secretary of state following the presidential election in November as Trump insisted he wasn't doing enough to combat voter fraud and Democratic 'cheating' in the state.

The duo issued a joint statement just days after the presidential election calling for his resignation.

Raffensperger immediately dismissed their calls as 'laughable.'

'Let me start by saying that is not going to happen,' he said at the time.

Raffensperger said in mid November that his wife, Tricia, started receiving threatening text messages about the state's recount of its votes, which was ongoing at the time.

He said that the threats were coming from mostly Republicans – his own party.

'You better not botch this recount,' one text message read. 'Your life depends on it.'

Another said: 'Your husband deserves to face a firing squad.'

The inhouse fighting among Republicans comes as the party continues to tear itself apart over the 2020 presidential election.

There are those who stand with Trump, backing him on all claims – no matter how far fetched – of a 'rigged' election riddle with widespread fraud. Others within the party are pushing back, including Raffensperger.

Trump and Raffensperger spoke on the phone Saturday for an hour regarding the election results in Georgia, which Joe Biden won by less than 12,000 votes.

Audio of the call was leaked on Sunday, depicting a desperate Trump begging, threatening and flattering Raffensperger while pleading with him to 'find 11,780' votes for him in the state to overturn Biden's victory there.

It was revealed Monday that Raffensperger was the one who leaked the call.

He downplayed the severity of some of the comments made by the president during their, at times, rambling conversations.

During an interview with ABC's 'Good Morning America' on Monday, Raffensperger claimed Trump just has 'bad data.'

'He did most of the talking. We did most of the listening,' Raffensperger said of the call with the president. 'But I did want to make my points that the data that he has is just plain wrong.'

'He had hundreds and hundreds of people he said that were dead that voted. We found two, that's an example of just – he has bad data,' he continued.

'Did you feel the pressure when he said 'find' the votes?' ABC host George Stephanopoulos pressed the Georgia Republican.

'No,' Raffensperger said. 'We have to follow the process, follow the law. Everything we've done for the last 12 months follows the constitution of the State of Georgia, follows the United States Constitution, follows state law.'