Posted on 11/08/2022 8:56:20 PM PST by Zhang Fei
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's incumbent secretary of state, held off a challenge from Democratic state Rep. Bee Nguyen on Tuesday night, marking a major rebuke of former President Donald Trump's influence in the state.
Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp, who also won reelection Tuesday night, became the face of Republican opposition to Trump's election fraud claims in 2020. Both officials publicly rebuked Trump's allegations, and Raffensperger gained even more "resistance" notoriety after a recorded Jan. 2, 2021, call with Trump was made public.
Raffensperger could be heard on the call vocally defending Georgia's election integrity and refusing to influence the state results as requested by Trump.
Georgia state results showed Raffensperger winning. Nguyen reportedly called Raffensperger's campaign to concede shortly before midnight.
Raffensperger ran heavily on his willingness to "buck" Trump and the party if necessary.
"I’m going to stand for the rule of law, and I’m going to buck my own party if I have to," he told Meet the Press in October. "This should not be a partisan job. This is an impartial job. I am making sure that we have honest and fair elections for everyone. And that’s so important to me, and it should be so important to every American."
He and Kemp did draw fire from Democrats in early 2021 after passing a new voting law that critics claimed at the time would make it harder for Georgians, especially black Georgians, to vote.
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Wow, spoken like a true GOPe RINO hack. Way to go Gunga.
You are ASSUMING that. It is possible many voters do not always vote straight party ticket.
LOL you can’t handle the truth!
Trump is running. Desantis will get crushed if he tries. You will be voting for Trump in Nov. ‘24. Get used to the idea.
[Explain how Walker does not have the same percentages as Kemp or Raffensperger in a statewide election.
What Kemp voters are voting for Warnick over Walker?
Explain.]
Walker is a guy who needs anti-psychotic meds just to function. Think of what Thomas Eagleton did to McGovern’s campaign against Nixon in 1972. And Eagleton was just depressed. Flawed does not begin to describe Walker as a political candidate.
Another aspect of middle ground voters? Looks. I think Tudor Dixon is giving Whitler a run for her money because she is arguably better-looking than a pretty good-looking governor.
So you guys are saying Reoublican voters voted for Warnick over Walker.
[So you guys are saying Reoublican voters voted for Warnick over Walker.]
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/state/georgia/party-affiliation/
How stupid a headline. This was decided in the primary and Trump backed candidates for GA governor and secretary of state didn’t move on the the general. Both Republicans won re-election. Fortunately.
I'd sooner see a civil war than return to the days of Republicans like the Bushes running things again.
I'd welcome the Russians in here to take over if we're stupid enough to get into a war with them.
It's not the least bit believable that five or more percent of those that voted for Kemp also voted for Warnock.
But, retarded communist supposedly is on his way to victory in Pennsylvania. If that's where we are, it's time the Russians took over this country.
Pure, neo-Marxist propaganda...
By law, Georgia voters who have moved to a new election district must officially change the address on their voter registration BEFORE the next election.
Failure to change their voter address means their vote is null and void!
Trump asked Raffensperger to verify voter addresses in two massively Democrat counties, because Trump only needed 10,000 null and void ballots to win the election.
Raffensperger refused to enforce Georgia law.
And, Raffensperger has allowed the neo-Marxist MSM to falsely accuse Trump of attempted voter fraud for two years.
It wasn’t a rebuke of Trump. Down ballot tends to get republican votes no matter what
Trump did kind of screw the pooch with Georgia when he attacked Kemp for lifting the lockdowns in Georgia, that was the genesis of the feud.
No. You are hearing wild stories
Clean up your own state
Kemp won because he signed a CCW law and kept taxes low.
You should be so lucky
What are you? A fifth grade girl?
All they had to do was not vote that slot
Hate to tell you but their are some SANCTIFIED voters who were shocked and offended to hear how Walker may have paid for an abortion
There’s enough there to question the results.
Raffsenspurger bluffed his way through, trying to make it seem he had the high
ground. I think he was hip deep in swamp water.
Trump had the right to ask him to look again, but I think he thought it
might make him or the state look bad if he did. It now looks worse.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=georgia%202020
You’re very sensitive.
Defensive.
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