A progressive Democrat and a Republican who briefly worked in Donald Trump’s administration entered the Fulton County district attorney’s race Friday in an attempt to oust Fani Willis, who has been the subject of scrutiny and embarrassing public testimony and is awaiting a judge’s decision on whether she’ll be removed from the Georgia election interference case against the former president.
Attorney Christian Wise Smith, who ran against Willis four years ago, is challenging her in the May Democratic primary election. Courtney Kramer, who said she interned in the White House counsel’s office under Trump for three months in 2018, was the only Republican to qualify by the noon Friday deadline. The general election is in November.
Meanwhile, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who’s presiding over the election interference case, drew two challengers for his nonpartisan race in May: Robert Patillo, a civil rights attorney, and Tiffani Johnson, a staff attorney for another Fulton County judge.
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