The race in Georgia had been central to Trump and his supporters’ bid to take over key positions that oversee elections across the country. Hice and other Trump-backed candidates have said that they wouldn’t have certified the 2020 election, as Raffensperger did, and have spread conspiracy theories about Trump’s loss.
The Georgia race is the first of a handful of battleground contests in which Trump endorsed a candidate for state election officer who has refused to accept the results of the 2020 election. Trump-backed Kristina Karamo, who claimed to have witnessed fraud in 2020 in the state, is running in Michigan to challenge Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. And in Arizona, Trump backed state Rep. Mark Finchem — who has called for the 2020 election to be decertified — for the open seat race there, although he faces other challengers for the nomination.
Back in Georgia, Hice led the objection to his own state’s election results in Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, which came after a Trump-supporting mob had already stormed the Capitol...
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