U.S. Rep. Jody Hice is running to be Georgia Secretary of State on a platform of false claims about the 2020 election.
Hice, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, says he will be tougher on election integrity than his Republican rival, incumbent Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Raffensperger drew Trump’s wrath after he disputed Trump’s false statements about a stolen election.
Hice told Fox 5 news anchor Russ Spencer on May 5 that the election “reeked of fraudulent activity.” Spencer responded that the FBI, state investigators and Trump’s attorney general, Bill Barr, found no credible allegations of widespread fraud. Spencer asked Hice about a phone call that Trump had with Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, when Trump made a raft of false claims, such as that thousands of dead people had voted.
Hice defended Trump, saying that there were other numbers Trump didn’t bring up, including the “$50 million of Zuckerberg money that Brad Raffensperger used to tip the scales.”
Hice’s campaign did not respond to our emails asking for his evidence. Hice’s statement gave a distorted picture of a grant awarded to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office and inflated the size of that grant ninefold.
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