his movement, and it has been years since a democrat won it. but also, because he thought georgia was a red republican controlled state, and in trump s mind state republicans were supposed to help deliver his win. it all started almost immediately after nbc news declared biden the winner, the apparent winner of georgia. it was on november 13th, 2020, and trump s meltdown began in full. he immediately started making baseless claims of widespread fraud in the state, which he says undermines his loss. on november 19th, the day before georgia officially certified the election, trump s chief of staff, mark meadows, actually reached out to secretary of state, raffensperger, presumably to get him to delay that certification. texting him, quote, mister secretary, mark meadow is here. if you could give me a brief call at your convenience, thank you. it s funny, he doesn t ask in text. maybe he sort of knows. as far as we know,
what is the texture of that race as someone who s covered it? so, i agree with you that it s a more interesting race right now, because it does look like kemp is in very good shape, going into tomorrow s primary. whereas raffensperger and jody hice our according to the most recent boris neck and neck. and you know, that s actually remarkable given what we all thought a year ago, which was that he was sort of a dead man walking with a republican electorate, after having defied president trump. but, you know having spent a week in georgia, a couple of weeks ago, interviewing voters and others, i really came away thinking that even people who support trump, and would vote for him again, if he was on the ballot in 2024, are tired of the 2020 election grievance narrative. and want to move on and i think that both brad raffensperger
hundreds of offices that are up this year around the country. one it s not an incumbent. when you don t have name recognition. when you don t have the ability to raise. money and i, i think of a very open question right now as we are roughly halfway through the primary season is, what will the ultimate what will the sort of final outcome be? and i suspect it s going to be that trump grievance narrative prevails more often than it does. yes, that s well said, and we re gonna look to arizona, where, we are going to see that secretary in the state rests. and we ve already got a nominee in pennsylvania who was at the capitol on january six. amy gardner, and, instinct you both. so, as amy was just saying, it does look right now that donald trump s handpicked candidates from georgia won t be making a victory speech. who knows, 30-point deficit, still hard to come out of. that blog alone will be pretty embarrassing for founder president. so it probably doesn t help that, mike pence, is
plan. the clock was ticking. trump was running out of time. so, by now, this january, and he finally made it through the georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger, for that missed call, when he told raffensperger to find the votes. and ruby freeman, dozen times. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have because we won the state. 18,000 voters having to do with ruby freeman. she s a vote scammer, a professional vote scammer, hustler boot ruby freeman. she s not those things just to defend ruby freeman was being slimmed. now, discredit, raffensperger stood his ground, which is why he now faces the primary challenge tomorrow. because trump ally jody hice, who s running against raffensperger, sure seems like he would have found the votes trump needed. that s that implied rationale for his entire candidacy. but since that plan failed as well, on january 4th, just two days before the election was certified in congress, a wo
complete and total disaster. as republicans prepared to go to the polls in georgia, it s trump versus pence. the former president, backing one candidate for governor, the former vice president backing another. tonight, the future of democracy in georgia is on the ballot. and why for trump, it s personal. i just want to find 11,780 votes. the impact of the threat to abortion, as texans head to the polls. and news tonight the january six committee will only hold six public hearings next month. i ll ask committee member, jamie raskin, about that. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we are just 11 hours away from polls opening in tomorrow s crucial primary electorate in georgia. and the two marquee races that