Georgia governor’s race heats up with entrance of two skeptics of Trump’s 2020 election claims

Republican Brad Raffensperger, who Trump called looking for votes, and Geoff Duncan announced their candidacies

The entrance into the Georgia governor's race of two prominent figures on the right who stood up to Donald Trump's effort to steal the 2020 election shows how the election interference crisis continues to reverberate in the state's politics.

On Wednesday, Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, announced his candidacy. Raffensperger was the recipient of the perfect phone call" by Trump in 2020 in the wake of his electoral loss in Georgia, pressuring Raffensperger to find 11,780 votes" and overturn the results.