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Voters in five states are heading to the polls for primaries on Tuesday, but the key races to watch are in the battleground state of Georgia.Since the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump has been eager to oust Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for blocking efforts to overturn the 2020 election in the state. Here are the major races to watch:Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has been one of Trump's top GOP targets since the former president lost the 2020 election. "I'm going to be in a year and a half and I'm going to be campaigning against your governor and your crazy secretary of state," Trump told a crowd in Dalton, Georgia, receiving thunderous applause.Fast forward to May 2022, and Kemp is facing a Trump-backed challenger, former Senator David Perdue, who lost his Senate seat in the Jan. 5 runoff election.Perdue passed on running for the Senate in February 2021 to face Warnock, but jumped into the governor's race in December, saying that Republicans were "divided" because of Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. There was record turnout during the early in-person voting, according to the Georgia Secretary of State's office, with more than 480,000 Republican ballots already cast ahead of Tuesday's election. One of Trump's other top targets during this primary season is incumbent Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.Raffensperger rebuffed Trump's efforts to try to get Raffensperger to overturn Georgia's election results. This week, the Georgia State Election Board voted unanimously to dismiss claims that some voters illegally returned absentee ballots.Raffensperger accused Hice of spreading "misinformation and disinformation" at a debate in May. On the campaign trail last week, he attacked Hice over his record in Congress."Congressman Jody Hice has been in Congress seven years now, and this is what he's done on elections?" Raffensperger asked, before taking a long pause. "That's right, nothing." Raffensperger told CBS News he understands that there are voters who are looking to see what this race says about Trump's influence and whether Republicans who certified 2020 election results will be punished. "Everything we have worked for, you are undermining by coming over and fighting me here," Bourdeaux said.Opponents have highlighted how Bourdeaux was part of a small group of House Democrats that looked to derail the joint passage of the infrastructure bill and the Build Back Better plan.In northwest Georgia, Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene is facing five Republican primary challengers who want to oust the controversial first-term Congresswoman.
As said here by Adam Brewster, Aaron Navarro, Elizabeth Campbell