2 phone call with the secretary, with Trump demanding Raffensperger "find" the exact number of votes he needed to win the state, according to a recording of the conversation that ABC News obtained. The former president's efforts to overturn the presidential election in the Peach State escalated in a Jan. State investigators also conducted an audit of about 15,000 signatures accompanying absentee ballot oath envelopes in the state's third-largest county and found no fraudulently cast ballots. Raffensperger came under fire from members of his own party for defending the integrity and accuracy of the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost to President Joe Biden by just 11,779 votes, marking the first time since 1992 that a Democrat won Georgia's electoral votes.ĭespite lacking substantiated evidence, Trump and Republican allies repeatedly claimed that there was widespread fraud in Georgia's election, which was certified twice for Biden following a hand count and a machine recount of the approximately 5 million votes cast in the race. Georgia Republicans seeking a candidate who's accomplished nothing, now have one."
His recklessness is matched by his fecklessness as a congressman. We saw in January what Georgia voters will do to candidates who use that rhetoric. In a statement provided to ABC News, Raffensperger said, "Few have done more to cynically undermine faith in our election than Jody Hice. Hice's campaign did not respond to ABC News' inquiry about the congressman's plan to enforce "meaningful (election) reform" and for more information about what Hice has done at the federal level to address election security. " Our state deserves a leader who steers clear of scandals and focuses on the incredibly important duties of the office."
"If elected, I will instill confidence in our election process by upholding the Georgia Constitution, enforcing meaningful reform and aggressively pursuing those who commit voter fraud," Hice said. Hice, who has represented Georgia's conservative 10th Congressional District since 2015, announced his campaign in a statement Monday, claiming "individuals took advantage" of "cracks" he said Raffensperger created in Georgia's election system, and that every American "has the right to be outraged by" the secretary's actions during the 2020 election cycle. Jody will stop the Fraud and get honesty into our Elections!" "I have 100% confidence in Jody to fight for Free, Fair, and Secure Elections in Georgia, in line with our beloved U.S. "Unlike the current Georgia Secretary of State, Jody leads out front with integrity," Trump said in a statement endorsing Hice Monday. staunch ally of the America First agenda." Jody Hice's effort to unseat Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, calling the congressman a "steadfast fighter for conservative Georgia values and. Sydney Ember, Reid J.Former President Donald Trump, keeping up his debunked election fraud fight, threw his weight behind Georgia GOP Rep. Biden’s dominance in Atlanta, Savannah and the increasingly Democrat-friendly suburbs around both cities transformed what had once seemed to be a Republican stronghold into one of the most closely divided states in the nation. But state election officials have repeatedly debunked Mr. Biden and seeking to overturn the election results, including by calling Georgia’s secretary of state and pressuring him to “find” votes that would reverse the outcome. Trump from making false conspiracy claims about his loss to Mr. Biden’s victory in Georgia was affirmed in three separate counts of the ballots: the initial election tally a hand recount ordered by the state and another recount that was requested by President Trump’s campaign and completed by machines. Raphael Warnock, who leads Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, beat Senator Kelly Loeffler, a Republican who was appointed to her seat in 2019 and was seeking to finish a term ending in 2022.īoth of races were forced into runoffs when no candidate won 50 percent of the vote in November. In one race, Jon Ossoff, a documentary film executive, defeated David Perdue, a Republican who had just completed his first term. became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state since 1992. Democrats won two high-stakes Senate runoff elections in Georgia, flipping both seats and securing a Senate majority for their party, two months after Joseph R.
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