of government, get engaged. i ll just name two places you can do that. run for something is recruiting for people to run for election officers who are committed to our democratic system and the rule of law. and the states dot org is another place we can get some of these and this is to make sure people get involved to preserve the democracy of the american people. a lot of what we saw sort of the up and down the chain, right? it s volunteers. it s folks who are doing it for no money, or glory, they re just doing it this much-needed function all kinds of wild slander or in the case of ruby freedom freeman. in terms of how the republican establishment of georgia has negotiated this, amy, you mention a polling where it has not connect with raffensperger. but i noted this in your reporting for the washington post that hice is not running ads directly goes days at time without campaigning, which is giving raffensperger the
fairly consistent that marcus is the dominant force in the republic. it is what republican politics is. the personal repeal of politics is a little bit diminished. and i wonder, your lead on, or maybe, not what do you think? i guess, as little bit diminished as maybe for the all-time high when he was doing the same numbers as the gop. i think that if you look at his landslide victory in 2016, when i was working through the percentages that he was getting through the states back then, you know, his numbers and head to head races are above those numbers easily in 2016 over the other competitors. so, i think it s a little bit diminished. we had a list, the podcast, called the focus group, we listened to actual primary voters. and this reviewed the georgia race, obviously. and there is not a lot of evidence when you listen to any
and brian kemp have capitalize on that fact by focusing on you know their conservative credentials. by not necessarily shining the way for, from their decision to defy president trump. both of them had a role in certifying the election in 2020. but, by kind of skipping past it, and also embracing the sort of election integrity that has become a necessary element in many states for running for office as a republican. and i think we ve seen that in both of these races, and i think that brad raffensperger, for instance, his top campaign issue this year has been making sure that non-citizens don t vote in georgia, even though there s eventually small number of these cases in any event. but that s the kind of thing he s seen him do to navigate this. and, what i understand from talking to voters has made this as a close race and is it is, it is not that republican voters don t believe that there was something fishy about the 2020 elections, despite the lack of evidence. it s that they re rea
slew of intense false right-wing conspiracies, which inaccurately claimed, she was ample evidence to conclude that this election was a sham. again all that completely bogus, right? there was nothing that freeman did that was wrong. they caught her on some tape, and made some huge deal about her, she wasn t, okay? they counted the ballots, they counted them again, ruby freeman story does not and there. giuliani s claims, mostly left out at the state. is legal challenges the election went towards. trump again working on it another scheme, again, all georgia focused, right? on december 28th, few weeks after those hearings, but then acting chief of the department of justice s civil division, remember jeffrey clark, he s plotting to have trump installed him as the acting attorney general, so that once in power, he can release a memo, using the official letter had,
tried every link in the chain, to see what will break, so that he can overturn the results in the free and fair election. none of them worked, which is why he ultimately walked up the violent frenzy, where he tried to overturn the election by force. okay. next time, he s hoping he doesn t have to, right? because he his conception was, if i have my people in georgia, they will deliver the state for me. that didn t happen. but what he wants is that if he doesn t win outright next time, he wants to claim that it was stolen the next time. and so, the first step for him is personnel, right? it s replacing politicians like governor brian kemp, and secretary of state brad raffensperger, who are political allies, republicans, who simply didn t go along with a plan. and on the eve of the primary election tomorrow, where this is the key thing that trump is focused on, kemp looks safe for now. raffensperger, secretary of state, the man who once the election, we don t know. that could be a real ra