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A Georgia Democrat seeks to unseat an indicted Trump elector who says he only did what he was told [View all]
https://apnews.com/article/still-ramaswami-fake-elector-election-georgia-senate-e0581cbd876638ffcda06e7b3a052daeA Georgia Democrat seeks to unseat an indicted Trump elector who says he only did what he was told
BY CHARLOTTE KRAMON AND JEFF AMY
Updated 12:04 AM EDT, August 31, 2024
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — A young Georgia Democrat is raising big money from voters across the country by labeling a suburban Atlanta senate race as a chance to unseat a Republican election denier.
Although incumbent Shawn Still was one of 18 people indicted alongside Donald Trump in Georgia’s Fulton County in 2023, Still says first-time candidate Ashwin Ramaswami is wrong to label him as a partisan plotter.
The race won’t disrupt the comfortably gerrymandered 33-22 Republican majority in Georgia’s upper chamber. But as Democrats try to chip away suburban Atlanta Republican voters who are turned off by Trump and his crusade against the 2020 election results, the race will test whether they can replicate gains from statewide races in local elections.
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Still was one of three Trump electors indicted on felony charges in Fulton County, along with Trump, Rudy Giuliani and 14 other Trump associates. Prosecutors call the 16 Republicans who gathered in the Georgia Capitol in December 2020 “fake electors.”
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Charlotte Kramon is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Kramon on X: @charlottekramon
Amy reported from Atlanta.
BY CHARLOTTE KRAMON AND JEFF AMY
Updated 12:04 AM EDT, August 31, 2024
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — A young Georgia Democrat is raising big money from voters across the country by labeling a suburban Atlanta senate race as a chance to unseat a Republican election denier.
Although incumbent Shawn Still was one of 18 people indicted alongside Donald Trump in Georgia’s Fulton County in 2023, Still says first-time candidate Ashwin Ramaswami is wrong to label him as a partisan plotter.
The race won’t disrupt the comfortably gerrymandered 33-22 Republican majority in Georgia’s upper chamber. But as Democrats try to chip away suburban Atlanta Republican voters who are turned off by Trump and his crusade against the 2020 election results, the race will test whether they can replicate gains from statewide races in local elections.
[...]
Still was one of three Trump electors indicted on felony charges in Fulton County, along with Trump, Rudy Giuliani and 14 other Trump associates. Prosecutors call the 16 Republicans who gathered in the Georgia Capitol in December 2020 “fake electors.”
[...]
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Charlotte Kramon is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Kramon on X: @charlottekramon
Amy reported from Atlanta.
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