President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn his defeat at the ballot box in 2020 is becoming a stark dividing line in the Georgia governor’s race, where Republicans who fractured into warring factionsover the failed push in the state are now facing off in a major midterm contest.
Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (R), a top Trump ally in trying to overturn the election, is running with the president’s endorsement and attacking his primary rivals as disloyal to Trump. One such opponent, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), rebuffed Trump’s extraordinary pressure to “find” enough votes to make up his 2020 deficit. Another, Attorney General Chris Carr, opposed a lawsuit challenging the results in Georgia and other states. Former lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan, who also pushed back against Trump and eventually quit the Republican Party, is running as a Democrat and plansto bring up the explosive chapter as he seeks his party’s nomination.
“Certainly I’m going to talk about it. It’s why I’m here. It’s not the only reason, but it’s a big reason,” Duncan said in an interview. “When your wife gets death threats because you’re sitting on TV just telling the truth about an election, that’s a problem.”
Duncan said the question of how politicians handled the aftermath of the 2020 election in Georgia is a litmus test for “how truthful someone’s willing to be.”…