The Democrat running to be Georgia’s top elections official says a closer look at incumbent Republican Brad Raffensperger’s record will reveal he’s no hero for refusing to do the bidding of former President Donald Trump.
“There seems to be this idea that he is a moderate Republican, and that is not true at all,” Bee Nguyen, a state House member, said after a speech last week in the central Georgia town of Milledgeville.
While other Republican nominees for secretary of state embrace false claims that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election, Raffensperger stands by his refusal to bend to pressure from Trump to “find” enough votes to give him a win in Georgia. A recording of the phone call he took from Trump is now evidence in a Georgia criminal investigation.
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