All three of the Democratic candidates for secretary of state who didn’t make it into a runoff to be the party’s nominee have fallen in line behind a single former rival.
The campaign of former state Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler on Wednesday announced the endorsements of John Eaves, former Fulton County Board of Commissioners chairman; Floyd Griffin, former Milledgeville mayor and state senator; and Michael Owens, former Cobb County Democratic Party chairman.
Dawkins-Haigler and state Rep. Bee Nguyen advanced to a June 21 runoff after last week’s primary election, in which Nguyen won about 44% of the vote and Dawkins-Haigler took nearly 19%. The winner will face Republican incumbent Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and libertarian Ted Metz in the November general election.
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