Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) is projected to survive an aggressive primary challenge on Tuesday, beating Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.), who had the endorsement of former President Trump, in his bid to keep his job as the state’s top elections official.
ABC News and CNN both called the race around 12:20 a.m. ET.
Raffensperger emerged as a vocal critic of Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral loss in Georgia, drawing the former president’s ire as well as a field of primary challengers.
Hice, a staunch Trump ally, centered his campaign on the former president’s false claim that the 2020 election was stolen and that officials like Raffensperger allowed mass voter fraud to go unchecked. In reality, there is no evidence that the election was tainted by fraud.
In a January 2021 phone call, Trump suggested to Raffensperger that he could “find” enough votes to reverse President Biden’s victory in Georgia. Raffensperger refused to do so, instantly becoming a symbol of Republican resistance to the former president’s efforts to undermine the democratic process.
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Raffensperger fends off Trump-backed primary challenge in Georgia https://t.co/jbloRTurOU pic.twitter.com/fP7OtisFQR
— The Hill (@thehill) May 25, 2022
Raffensperger now declaring victory. "My thinking is that the vast majority of Georgians are looking for honest people in elected office. I think people are tired of the lying and bickering, and they're tired of the incompetence."
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) May 25, 2022
Raffensperger famously rebuffed Trump’s call in the 2020 election to “find” votes in Georgia to overturn Trump’s narrow loss in the state.
That earned him a stream of attacks from Trump, who backed Raffensperger's GOP primary opponent, Jody Hice. https://t.co/1WVmfzP9Hh
— POLITICO (@politico) May 25, 2022
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