{"id":13369,"date":"2025-09-17T12:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/raffensperger-launches-bid-for-georgia-governor\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:46:44","slug":"raffensperger-launches-bid-for-georgia-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/raffensperger-launches-bid-for-georgia-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Raffensperger launches bid for Georgia governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who defied President Donald Trump&#8217;s calls to help overturn the 2020 presidential election results in his state, on Wednesday announced he&#8217;ll run for governor of Georgia in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a conservative Republican, and I\u2019m prepared to make the tough decisions. I follow the law and the Constitution, and I\u2019ll always do the right thing for Georgia no matter what,\u201d Raffensperger said in an announcement video.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary of state will likely face an uphill battle to receive party support as he still draws ire from Trump\u2019s MAGA base for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia.html\" target=\"_blank\">refusing to follow the president\u2019s orders<\/a> to \u201cfind\u201d the votes necessary to overturn the presidential election in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Raffensperger\u2019s entry into the race to succeed Gov. Brian Kemp sets up a potentially competitive contest, as state Attorney General Chris Carr and Lt. Gov. Burt Jones are also vying for the GOP\u2019s nomination. Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/11\/trump-burt-jones-georgia-governor-00504647\" target=\"_blank\">clinched Trump\u2019s endorsement<\/a> earlier last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who defied President Donald Trump&#8217;s calls to help overturn the 2020 presidential election results in his state, on Wednesday announced he&#8217;ll run for governor of Georgia in 2026. \u201cI\u2019m a conservative Republican, and I\u2019m prepared to make the tough decisions. I follow the law and the Constitution, and I\u2019ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}