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Georgia election official takes the fight to Trump - POLITICO

Georgia election official takes the fight to Trump - POLITICO

Georgia election official takes the fight to Trump - POLITICO
Oct 10, 2021 1 min, 51 secs

14, 2020, is running a damn-the-torpedoes reelection campaign that directly confronts former President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump never wastes an opportunity to attack Georgia’s top statewide Republican officeholders for failing to help him overturn the 2020 election results in the key swing state.

Raffensperger, who has borne the brunt of Trump’s wrath as the top election official in the state, is running a damn-the-torpedoes reelection campaign that directly confronts the former president — even though it could cost him the GOP nomination.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks during a news conference on Nov.

“The last internal poll I saw said that 87 percent of Republican primary voters felt like the election was stolen,” said former Republican Rep.

The Georgia secretary of state refused Trump’s requests to alter the state’s vote count and feuded with the former president over Trump’s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.

At one point, Raffensperger’s office secretly recorded Trump trying to persuade the secretary of state to “find” votes to make him the winner — a potential crime by Trump that local prosecutors are now investigating.

In July, the former president sent him a letter asking yet again to decertify the results of the 2020 election.

As recently as two weeks ago, during a Georgia rally, Trump called Raffensperger “incompetent and strange.“.

Jody Hice (R-Ga.) — a staunch Trump ally — announced earlier this year he’d challenge Raffensperger in the primary, Trump immediately endorsed him.

After Trump used his rally to mock-endorse Democrat Stacey Abrams — who is expected to mount her second campaign for Georgia governor after refusing to formally concede her last race for the office three years ago — Raffensperger wrote a USA Today op-ed comparing Trump to Abrams.

1 is that President Trump did not carry the state of Georgia,” Raffensperger told POLITICO, pointing to multiple recounts, reviews and investigations that confirmed the accuracy of the Georgia results

Raffensperger’s frontal assault on Trump is widely viewed as a doomed strategy in a state where Trump dominates the GOP and majorities of Republicans believe the 2020 election was stolen — a January poll showed only 45 percent of Republicans supported the secretary of state

Speaking of Raffensperger’s confrontational approach toward Trump, Westmoreland said, “it’s probably not helpful in a primary

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