Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp defended the integrity of Georgia’s elections process Tuesday in response to former President Donald Trump’s promise to release a report he claims will prove fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election and exonerate him of the racketeering charges brought Monday by a Fulton County grand jury accusing him of coordinating a sprawling scheme to overturn results of the 2020 presidential election in the state.
Republican Governor Brian Kemp takes questions from the media at a press conference on November 7, ... [+]
Kemp reiterated his previous statements that the “2020 election in Georgia was not stolen” in a tweet Tuesday, adding that no one has come forward under oath with legitimate evidence of fraud and that elections in Georgia “are secure, accessible, and fair.”
Kemp was responding to a Trump statement on Truth Social, which Kemp included in a screenshot along with his tweet, that promised to release a report Monday that would provide “Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable” information “on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia.”
Trump, who said he will unveil the report during a press conference Monday from Bedminster, New Jersey, claimed the charges against him and his 18 co-defendants should be dropped as a result of the findings.
He also accused prosecutors of failing to investigate the people he claims “rigged the election.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s office indicted Trump on Monday on 13 felonies related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state, accusing him and 18 accomplices of operating a “criminal enterprise” to “unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump.” The indictment lists 41 counts combined against the 19 defendants, including a racketeering charge for each. Trump is also charged with three counts of solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer related to his January 2021 phone call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which he urged Raffensperger to “find” votes that would tip the election in his favor.
Kemp was subject to repeated Trump attacks following the 2020 election, after the governor refused to back Trump’s claims of widespread election fraud in the state. Trump backed a Republican challenger—former Sen. David Perdue—in the 2022 GOP gubernatorial primary in an effort to keep Kemp from being reelected, but Kemp cruised to victory in the primary, beating Perdue by more than 50 percentage points.
Trump Indicted By Fulton County Grand Jury In Georgia Election Interference Case (Forbes)