Live from Virginia Tuesday morning on The John Fredericks Show – weekdays on WNTW AM 820/ FM 92.7 – Richmond, WJFN FM 100.5 – Central Virginia, WMPH AM 1010 / FM 100.1 / FM 96.9 (7-9 PM) Hampton Roads, WBRG AM 1050 / FM 105.1 – Lynchburg/Roanoke and weekdays 6-10 a.m. and 24/7 stream –  host Fredericks welcomed Congressman Jody Hice to the show to talk about his campaign against Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger and what he will do to instill election integrity back to the state of Georgia.
Fredericks: Joining me now, Congressman Jody Hice. He still represents the 10th District. That’s the Athens-based district where there are 13 candidates or something running. He’s endorsed Timothy Barr, who we had on earlier.
And now he’s running for Secretary of State against Brad Raffensperger and David Belle Isle. First-round-decided primary on May 24 in Georgia. I predict no one is going to get over 50 percent. It is going to have to go to a runoff.
That’s just my prediction. Congressman Hice, great to have you with us. You just started a tour across Georgia. Would you share that with us?
Hice: Yes. Listen, great to be with you. First of all, it’s always an honor to be here. But listen, we’re all over the state. We’re about to have a fly-around the state where we’ll be going literally to every region across the state.
And it’s really exciting how things are shaping up right now. Of course, you know I am, as you mentioned, still in Congress representing the 10th District. We are two to three weeks out of every month in Washington, D.C.
When we do have the opportunity to be back in the district, back in the state, we’re literally all over the place. And we have a team that is scattered all over the state as well. So things are going well.
But we’re really looking forward next week to our fly-around tour that’s going to just open up opportunities to be in a lot of places virtually at the same time over a couple of three days.
Fredericks: Tell us about your campaign. You got Trump’s backing early on, so you’re his candidate for Secretary of State. As you know, I did my show today in Brad Raffensperger’s office.
He took phone calls for, I think, an hour and a half. He was very gracious to do that. They’re telling me that their internal polls have them at 50 percent. True or false?
Hice: We obviously have been doing our polls as well, and we’ve been leading since December, and we’re excited to be in that position. Obviously, everyone does their own polling. Everyone tries to make it look as though they’re doing better than everyone else.
Our polling is very favorable to us at this point. No one is over 50 percent. But we are in process of going to those voters, as you probably know – even right now, as we speak on statewide TV and radio, and we’re closing the gap.
And every week we’re climbing more and more in the polls. We are in the lead right now and week after week getting a little bit further ahead. And we’re really excited about where we are at this point.
Fredericks: Jody, tell me about the main things that you’re going to do as Secretary of State that Raffensperger hasn’t done well.
Hice: That can be wrapped up in just simply the statement “secure elections.” Raffensperger has literally pulled the rug out from under the state of Georgia in terms of having good, secure, honest elections. He has stood in the way of investigations to try to make sure our elections were properly handled.
He has been an obstructor to try to get to the truth. When he sent out absentee ballots to everyone on the voter registration, that was a train wreck for our election integrity. That was the beginning of a disaster. And then the drop-off boxes, as we all know now, it’s been revealed that there were ballot harvesting mules all over the state.
It’s just one issue after another, John. They absolutely lost the integrity of voters. And at the end of the day, we’ve got to secure elections. At the end of the day, people have to know that their vote counts.
And they’ve got to have confidence that when they go to the voting box, only one legal ballot is cast and only one legal ballot is counted. And then, of course, in addition to that, there’s the corporate side of the Secretary of State’s office with the licensing of the businesses and that type of thing, which likewise has just been a disaster in this current Secretary of State’s office.
So we’ve got a lot of work to do, a lot of cleanup to do. A lot of things have absolutely been neglected under the leadership of Brad Raffensperger. And he absolutely has to go.
Fredericks: We’re with Congressman Jody Hice. He’s now running for Secretary of State. First round of that that will be decided in a May 24 Republican primary. Three major candidates for Secretary of State. Jody Hice, who’s with us now, congressman from Georgia’s 10th.
He has the endorsement of Donald Trump. Incumbent Brad Raffensperger from the Milton area, Johns Creek. And then David Belle Isle, former Mayor of Alpharetta, in that as well. Jody, let’s get to these mules. I saw and talked to Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote, and they have got this whistleblower and these videos of people stuffing drop boxes in the middle of the night all over Georgia, which is illegal.
That’s counter to your law there. Raffensperger says he’s investigating it. What does that mean? What investigation? What’s the GBI doing? And if you’re Secretary of State, what’s going to be different?
Hice: Unfortunately, it’s too little too late for Brad Raffensperger. He’s had a year of obstruction when it comes to investigating these mules. This is not something new. We have known this type of stuff was going on since right after the election, and yet he has done absolutely nothing until now.
We’re three months out from an election and now he’s strutting around beating himself in the chest, trying to look as though he is the champion for election integrity, where he has been the major problem from the very get-go with all of this.
Yes, if you look at these videos, they’re shocking. You’ve seen them. It’s unbelievable. Literally hundreds of hours of videos where we have mules going around stuffing the ballots and taking pictures of themselves before they put ballots in.
We have a whistleblower now who has come forward saying he was getting paid $10 a ballot. This is just unbelievable what has been allowed to happen in this state, and Brad Raffensperger should be held accountable. And that’s what elections are all about, and I intend in every way to replace Brad and restore election integrity back to our state.
Listen to the full interview here:
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