republican primaries for governor, and for secretary of state. two trump backed candidates are essentially running single issue campaigns, on the ex president s big lie of a stolen election. you ve got former senator david perdue, close trump ally, who lost his senate seat last year. he s challenging the incumbent republican governor, brian kemp. and you ve got far-right congressman jody hice, who s hoping to oust the current incoming secretary of state, brad raffensperger. these races are notable, not only as a referendum on trump s attempt to do, but also to set the groundwork for the next one. because out of all of trump s attempts to overturn the will of the voters and steal the election, what is the state of georgia, where he put his most effort? part of that of course has to do with how humiliated trump appears to have felt by his defeat over there, not only because the election was widely seen as repudiation to him and
backed three incumbent republicans from georgia. buddy carter, rick allen, and barry loudermilk. loudermilk notably asked to appear before the january six in regards to a tour he claims he lead in the day before the capital january 6th. none of the three men are facing a primary challenger, and all are in safe republican districts. sometimes you just need in easy win. tim miller served as communications director for jeff bush s 2016 presidential campaign. he s now a writer. he joins me now. tim, i cracked up when i saw that, you know, trump clearly watching the win loss record. let s just indoors a primary republican who are uncontested so we could just get some w s on the board. you know, sometimes you have to take an easy one when you can get, it just jump in front of the parade and declare yourself the marshall. so, the pence dynamic areas interesting. because, again, i have no illusions, and i think it s
law prohibits the governor from interfering in elections. the secretary of state, who is an elected constitutional officer, has oversight over the elections that cannot be overridden by executive order. of course, we already know that trump was targeting raffensperger as well. on december 5th, the same day that he called camp, mark meadows tried to get through to the georgia secretary of state, again. meadows texting him, quote, mister secretary, can you call the white house switchboard for a call, your voice mail is full. the white house put raffensperger, who was clearly backing their calls in the back burner, because he didn t have a new strategy. the same with trump made those calls, his lawyer, rudy giuliani, went in person, down to georgia, pushing baseless claims of voter fraud, surrounding a nonpartisan election worker named freemen, who became the target of these
sometimes, it is the worst form of government except for all the others. he doesn t deliver what people wanted all the time. but that is led to trump unleashing a movement, really, trump has met a straw size trumpism into the country. you have candidates running in the office who don t just have a different policy, they have a different reality. let s recall that none other than the one america news network, right, trump s favorite network, reported last week that there was no widespread voter fraud in georgia, 2020. and you still have these candidates running for offices that are in the elections, based on totally false reality. as former senator waning him famously said, you re entitled to your opinions. you re not entitled to other facts. but democracy requires a set of facts, and so, one thing i think, if you re watching this at home and you care about a set of shared facts, you care about reality if you re not engaged yet in making sure that those people will oversee our elections
party that needs to tidy up. now again ruby freeman didn t gave, right? she didn t find a false confession. she showed an incredible amount of courage there, under truly bizarre circumstances, under pressure from this person, who s representing herself as a emissary for the powerful, right? ruby freeman stands her ground. and another attempt by trump s allies to steal georgia failed. we re not done yet. because that same day, january 4th, u.s. attorney for georgia, b. j. pak, resigned. now, that was weird, we all kind of noted it. like, that s strange. it doesn t usually happen. he later said he quit before he can be fired by trump s forte, you guessed it, refusing to support trump s claims of election fraud. it was a multi-pronged, systematic effort over weeks, and weeks, and weeks, trump