Donald Trump endorses rival to Georgia Republican elections official Brad Raffensperger [View all]
Source: USA Today
WASHINGTON – Seeking revenge on Republicans who opposed his efforts to overturn his election loss, former President Donald Trump on Monday endorsed a GOP primary challenger to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., a four-term congressman from northeast Georgia who has echoed Trump's election complaints, "will stop the Fraud and get honesty into our Elections!’’ Trump said in a statement. Trump and allies have repeatedly stated, without evidence, that there was voter fraud in Georgia and other states won by President Joe Biden.
In endorsing Hice, Trump again served notice he will insert himself into Republican primaries, even at the risk of splitting the party ahead of important general elections – and even in Georgia, where he is under investigation for pressuring Raffensperger and other Georgia election officials over the 2020 results.
"I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state," Trump told Raffensperger in a January phone call taped by Georgia officials.
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