Trump Endorses Jody Hice for Georgia Secretary of State

U.S. District 10 Congressional Representative Jody Hice has announced he intends to run for
Georgia Secretary of State, a position currently held by Republican Brad Raffensperger.

Former President Donald Trump was quick to endorse Hice’s run for the office. Hice’s campaign released a public statement when making his announcement Monday: “Free and fair elections are the foundation of our country. What Brad Raffensperger did was create cracks in the integrity of our elections, which I wholeheartedly believe individuals took advantage of in 2020. Though I am encouraged to see the General Assembly taking it upon themselves to address some of the glaring issues in our elections, Georgia deserves a Secretary of State who will own the responsibilities of the office. If elected, I will instill confidence in our election process by upholding the Georgia Constitution, enforcing meaningful reform and aggressively pursuing those who commit voter fraud.”

Meanwhile, Trump issued a statement endorsing Hice over Raffensperger, who was singled out by Trump in the 2020 election for allowing what he called election fraud to occur. “Unlike the current Georgia Secretary of State, Jody leads out front with integrity,’’ Mr. Trump remarked. “Jody will stop the fraud and get honesty into our elections!’’

After several recounts following the contested presidential election, Georgia elections officials certified the results and Raffensperger added his name to the document enraging Trump who is now under a criminal investigation for election tampering by Democrat Fulton County Prosecutor, Fani T. Willis.

The subject of the investigation is a phone call made by then President Trump to Raffensperger in the heat of the vote recounts. In the phone call, a seemingly disparate Trump asks Raffenperger to “find” votes.

“What I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than [the 11,779 vote margin of defeat] we have, because we won the state,” Trump is recorded telling Raffinsperger. In another excerpt from the recorded call, Trump seems to accuse a baffled Raffensperger of committing a criminal act.

In the call, Raffensperger gamely tries to defend his office in what became a typical onslaught of Trump’s ire.

“Mr. President, you are challenged because your data is wrong,“ Raffensperger fires back, adding
that his office only found data that two individuals in the entire state voted and later was declared to
be deceased, not the thousands of dead people voting that the President alleged. You can hear the entire conversation, which was obtained by way of The New York Times, by following the link below:

AUDIO

Trump maintains he did nothing wrong and that the election was stolen from him.

Candidate Hice agrees with Trump and says that Raffensperger conspired with Democrat activist Stacey Abrams to create a dissent decree that allowed for massive voter fraud during the presidential election and the senate election that occurred afterwards.

“People have to have integrity in the process,” Hice says. “This last election was a disaster, from the
very beginning to the end.”

In stepping down from Congress to run for Georgia Secretary of State, Hice faces a pay cut and a
loss of what is considered upward political trajectory. Hice says he doesn’t care. “The Secretary of State hid the truth and had information redacted and this only serves to make us lose voter confidence,” he says. “If we lose voter confidence, we lose our nation.”

Scott Hudson is the Managing Editor of The Augusta Press. Reach him at scott@theaugustapress.com