Brad Raffensperger: who is the Georgia secretary of state standing up to Trump?

The lifelong Republican traditionalist has pro-business politics but Trump's sour loss to Biden broke the relationship

Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state for Georgia, is back in the news after the Washington Post published a damning recording of Trump pressurising him to find" votes that could help overturn Joe Biden's victory.

Trump endorsed the lifelong Republican in 2018 as being tough on crime and borders" and someone who loves our military and [veterans]", but his attempt to coerce him into changing his state's election result is providing a dramatic closing act to the Trump presidency.