Georgia's GOP Primaries, Where Trump's 'Big Lie' Is On The Ballot
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🗓️ 23 May 2022
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WABE's Rahul Bali explains how the former President looms over Tuesday's elections, and WABE's Sam Gringlas looks at a race between two Democratic incumbents, forced to face off after their districts were redrawn by Republicans.
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| 0:00.0 | The year is 2022, yet 2020 is on the ballot in Georgia's Republican primaries Tuesday. |
| 0:08.4 | The big lie has been a big issue up and down the ballot in Georgia, including the race |
| 0:13.1 | for governor. |
| 0:14.1 | Here's former GOP Senator David Perdue who is challenging Governor Brian Kemp for his |
| 0:18.7 | job. |
| 0:19.7 | The election in 2020 was rigged and stolen. |
| 0:23.4 | The madness we see in the Biden administration started right here in Georgia. |
| 0:27.6 | And Brian Kemp came to let radical Democrats steal the election. |
| 0:31.4 | That is false, but it is echoed by Jody Heiss, who's running for Secretary of State. |
| 0:36.2 | I believe the election here in Georgia reaped with fraudulent activity. |
| 0:41.2 | It's not just GOP candidates who are still talking about the false claim championed by |
| 0:46.1 | former President Donald Trump of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. |
| 0:51.0 | It's also on the minds of voters like Steve Dela Negra, who finds the 2020 results hard |
| 0:56.3 | to believe. |
| 0:57.3 | I drove all over the state and I saw two Biden signs and you had one. |
| 1:02.5 | And Robert Duffy, a two-time Trump voter who is now tired of the false 2020 claims. |
| 1:08.2 | This time he is not supporting Trump's choice for governor in this primary. |
| 1:12.1 | It's a bit of a turnoff at this point. |
| 1:14.4 | Why are we looking back at this point? |
| 1:15.6 | I think it's deterring our efforts in the Republican Party to move forward. |
| 1:20.8 | Consider this. |
| 1:21.8 | Voters and several states head to the polls Tuesday. |
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