Our friends across the state line from Tennessee in Georgia have quite the Republican primary brewing. And we’re not talking about the race for governor.
No, in the Peach State, one of the top races that will be contested on May 24 is the GOP primary for secretary of state, which is not an elected office in the Volunteer State.
The man whose fate is on the line is Brad Raffensperger, the incumbent secretary of state who became Public Enemy No. 1 to then-President Donald Trump when he refused to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia over what the president’s supporters alleged were voting irregularities.
His critics say, among other things, his decision to send absentee ballot applications to every active voter and allow for the first time the use of absentee ballot drop boxes fostered some amount of illegal voting – enough to swing Georgia into the Biden column.
Raffensperger, for his part, can point to three vote recounts, including a hand count, certifying the victory for the now-president.