The Republican Election Official Who Stood Up To Trump

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🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Brad Raffensperger is a conservative Republican who serves as Georgia's elected Secretary of State — he oversaw the 2020 elections cycle in the state. In a conversation about his new book Integrity Counts, he tells NPR's Miles Parks and Georgia Public Broadcast's Stephen Fowler about resisting former president Trump's push to corrupt the election results.

This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, voting reporter Miles Parks, and GPB reporter Stephen Fowler.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.3	I must my call it.
0:06.3	I cover the White House.
0:07.3	I'm Miles Parks.
0:08.3	I cover voting.
0:09.3	And today on the show, we've got a special episode.
0:11.5	We're talking about one man who became the face of free and fair elections last year.
0:16.8	Brad Raffensberger, the Republican Secretary of State in Georgia.
0:20.4	You all probably remember hearing his name frequently during the 2020 presidential election.
0:25.3	He was the man in charge of making sure the state's election happened without a glitch.
0:29.6	But Miles, let's be real, the Secretary of State of Georgia is not really a high-profile
0:33.8	national job.
0:35.2	But Raffensberger gained notoriety.
0:37.4	It seems kind of by accident.
0:39.0	Yeah, he did.
0:40.0	And I think it's really interesting when you look at his political career and like zoom out
0:43.7	a little bit.
0:44.7	This is a guy who didn't inter-politics until he was in his mid-50s.
0:47.8	He runs for office and then he has one of the most conservative records in the Georgia
0:51.8	House when he's in that body of government, becomes Secretary of State.
0:55.6	And now he's in this weird position where this bonafide Republican in the Georgia House
1:00.6	is now having his Republican credentials kind of take it from him.
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