Georgia's Trump question
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🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday Republican voters in Georgia will choose between candidates who supported Donald Trump’s claims that the election was stolen and those who did not. The results may say a lot about election integrity in 2022 — and the state of the GOP nationwide.
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In 2020, the fate of the presidency and which party would control the U.S. Senate hinged on what happened in Georgia. The state emerged as a contentious battleground, and it quickly drew the attention of President Donald Trump, who began to falsely claim that the elections in the state were manipulated.
Nearly two years later, Trump’s influence over Georgia’s elections has not disappeared. In fact, several Republican candidates have declared their support for Trump’s false election claims, including challengers to the incumbent governor and secretary of state. And Trump’s sway has created a schism in the state’s Republican Party.
Matthew Brown, who covers politics in the state, unpacks the dimensions of Georgia’s primaries and examines what could happen if an election denier enters office.
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| 0:17.8 | If you don't live in Georgia, you might not remember the name Brad Rapinsberger. |
| 0:22.4 | But if you do remember, it's probably because of this. |
| 0:25.8 | Okay, thank you very much. Hello, Brad and Ryan and everybody. We appreciate the time and the call. |
| 0:31.2 | So we've spent a lot of time on this and. |
| 0:34.8 | This is a phone call that then President Donald Trump made after the 2020 election. |
| 0:40.0 | Brad, what are we going to do? We won the election and it's not fair to take it away from us like this. |
| 0:45.8 | And it's going to be very costly in many ways. |
| 0:50.0 | And I think you have to say that you're going to re-examine it and you can re-examine it. |
| 0:55.7 | And you might remember how Rapinsberger, a Republican, pushed back against the President. |
| 1:01.2 | We don't agree that you have one. We don't agree about the 200,000 member that you mentioned. |
| 1:07.0 | And I go through that point by point. |
| 1:09.6 | Brad Rapinsberger is the Secretary of State in Georgia. |
| 1:13.0 | So in 2020, he oversaw the state's election. |
| 1:16.9 | And when Trump got on the phone with him, pressuring him to find the votes he needed to win the state. |
| 1:22.7 | Rapinsberger was the one who said, no, Mr. President, you're wrong. |
| 1:27.0 | And even if you cut him in half, cut him in half, and cut him in half again, it's more votes than we need. |
| 1:34.1 | Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have as well. |
| 1:40.1 | Now, Rapinsberger is in a complicated situation because he's up for re-election. |
| 1:45.8 | And in a state like Georgia, you don't just refuse to help Donald Trump overturn an election |
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