Georgia GOP primary for secretary of state to test endurance of Trump's election lie

In a since-deleted Instagram post on the morning of Jan. 6, Hice wrote, “This is our 1776 moment.”Hice was also among several Republican members of Congress who were involved in a planned effort to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election by discarding electoral votes from certain states won by Biden, according to The New York Times, citing recent testimony given to the House committee investigating the insurrection.While polling earlier this year showed that nearly 75 percent of self-identified Republican voters said they felt there’d been widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, Raffensperger said in a recent interview with NBC News that he felt Georgia Republicans were over their frustrations with 2020.“I think people moved on from that,” he said.Raffensperger has made his campaign a balancing act, maintaining that he did the right thing in standing up to Trump while also offering full-throated support for a restrictive voting bill Kemp signed into state law last year and tough talk on preventing undocumented immigrants from voting (an exceedingly rare problem in Georgia).Chip Lake, a veteran Republican strategist in Georgia not currently affiliated with any of the secretary of state campaigns, predicted the strategy would be at least enough to see Raffensperger advance to a runoff.“He’s in a much better spot than he was one year ago, and he’s done everything he can do to put himself in that spot, but he faces a very difficult primary on Tuesday,” Lake said.