Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Running for Reelection Despite GOP Criticism

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Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed that he will be running for reelection next year.

โ€œI still enjoy the job and, yes, Iโ€™m running again,โ€ Raffensperger said on Tuesday during a speech before the Rotary Club of Gwinnett County, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

He will have to contend with another primary challenger, Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.), who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump.

Raffensperger faces disapproval from the GOP over his handling of the presidential election and a call with Trump that was leaked to the press.

During the Jan. 2 call, Trump told Raffensperger in reference to the election: โ€œI just want to find 11,780 votes.โ€

President Joe Biden won the state by the narrow abovementioned margin. Trump also maintained in the phone call that โ€œWe won by hundreds of thousands of votesโ€โ€”which was challenged repeatedly by Raffenspergerโ€™s team, drawing discontent from Trump.

Raffensperger then suggested that the call was leaked to The Washington Post from his office.

โ€œIt was a private conversation. [Trump] broke privacy when he put out a tweet, but then his tweet was false,โ€ Raffensperger told WXIA at the time.

โ€œIf President Trump hadnโ€™t have tweeted out anything and wouldโ€™ve stayed silent, we wouldโ€™ve stayed silent as well. And that wouldโ€™ve just been a conversation between him and I, man to man, and that wouldโ€™ve been just fine with us. But heโ€™s the one that had to put it out on Twitter,โ€ he said.

Trumpโ€™s lawyer Kurt Hilbert condemned the leak, saying โ€œwe are disappointed that the secretary of state and his staff secretly recorded and released a confidential settlement discussion.โ€

The fullย transcript of the callย that later emerged showed thatย before Trump said he wanted to โ€œfindโ€ theย 11,780 votes, he had askedย electionย officials to look into a number of specific claims of election irregularitiesโ€”something he had been saying publicly for weeks, prior to the call.

BYย SAMUEL ALLEGRI

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