Just over two months after Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, the former president made a phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, pushing the state official to “find 11,780 votes” – the exact number needed to flip the state to Trump.
Raffensperger, of course, did not oblige, but Trump and his allies this time around are putting a system in place if needed to steal the swing state, one that could ultimately decide a coin-flip contest between him and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Since Trump’s failed insurrection attempt in 2020 – one that led to the storming of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters – the Georgia General Assembly has made various moves to take more power over the state’s election system.
Among those was removing Raffensperger from his role as chair of the State Election Board and giving the legislature power to appoint its own.
That culminated in the appointment of Janelle King, former deputy state director for the Georgia Republican Party, who has questioned the state’s 2020 election results.