Even as Jackson seeks to cultivate ties to the president, Trump has stuck by Jones, something the lieutenant governor eagerly noted at the Faith & Freedom gathering.
“I’m endorsed by President Trump, by the way, I don’t know if you all know that or not,” Jones quipped to scattered chuckles from the audience. “He’s not done it once, not twice but three times now.”
Raffensperger’s aides believe Jackson and Jones could split the MAGA-aligned vote, creating a path for him. Georgia law requires a candidate to receive more than 50% of the vote to win the primary election outright; otherwise, the top two vote-getters would compete in a June 16 runoff.
Charles Bullock, a veteran political scientist at the University of Georgia, said that’s possible. “There could be some share of the voters that say, ‘I don’t want to vote for either Jackson or Jones. They both sound like scoundrels, so Raffensperger sounds like the best bet.’”
Jay Morgan, a former executive director of the Georgia Republican Party who now runs a public affairs firm, said Raffensperger faces a tough path. A decent share of the state’s Republican electorate likely will take its cue from Trump, even if voters grow weary of the Jackson-Jones infighting, he said. And Raffensperger, he said, “is clearly the guy Trump would least like to see on the ballot.”
In interviews, some voters said they were open to Raffensperger’s ideas but not yet sold on his candidacy.
“Let’s be frank, Raffensperger is the most hated,” said Lisa Babbage, who serves as first vice chair of the Georgia Black Republican Council and listened to all four candidates at the Faith & Freedom event. “But when he told the story about his son, I couldn’t help but connect to that and truly believe that he cares.”
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