Georgia Elections Chief Rebuffs Trump-Backed Opponent on Fraud Claims
- Secretary of State defends taping his call with Trump
- Raffensperger is facing Hice in May 24 Georgia primaries
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said his Donald Trump-backed election opponent is lying about how he handled Joe Biden’s 2020 win, and that there was no systemic fraud in the state’s elections that year.
Raffensperger, who rebuffed Trump’s queries about overturning Biden’s win shortly after the 2020 election, also defended his decision to record a phone call with then-president Trump about the election -- a call now at the heart of a special grand jury investigation. “Anything that was said, I understood, that that could be used in a deposition or in a court proceeding,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg News on Friday in Atlanta.