President Donald Trump again called for the release of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from prison on Thursday, issuing a vague threat of “harsh measures” if state officials don’t let her out.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold quickly fired back, calling both Peters and the president “election-denying criminals who put their need for power ahead of the American people.”

“Trump is trying to power grab,” Griswold, a Democrat, said in an interview with The Denver Post. “He is trying to rewrite the 2020 election.”

Peters, a Republican, is serving nine years behind bars after a jury convicted her last summer of breaching her county’s election computer system in an attempt to buttress the president’s and his supporters’ false claims that the Democrats stole the 2020 election,

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