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The following individuals and groups were involved in pushing for an audit of the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
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About Jenna Ellis is a right-wing Christian lawyer who served as a legal adviser to Trump during his final year in office. With a law degree from the University of Richmond in Virginia, she began her legal career as a deputy district attorney in Weld County, a rural area of Colorado. Ellis later worked at … Read more
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About Boris Epshteyn is a right-wing attorney and political consultant who was an advisor to Trump’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. In 2017, he became chief political analyst for Sinclair Broadcast Group, which had reportedly worked with the 2016 Trump campaign to generate favorable coverage of the candidate in newscasts on its 173 television stations. … Read more
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About Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has served Florida’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2017. Known for sparking controversy, he ran for reelection in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement, won with nearly 70 percent of the vote. As of 2021, Gaetz has been under federal investigation for child sex trafficking stemming from allegations … Read more
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About Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is the senior senator from South Carolina, having served in the U.S. Senate since 2003. An attorney prior to running for office, he served as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2019–21. Earlier in his career, he was a judge advocate general in the U.S. Air Force from 1982–88. In … Read more
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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is a right-wing extremist who was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020, serving Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. She ran for her second term in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and won in her solidly Republican district.
Greene is a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus.
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About Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) has served Georgia’s 11th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015. He ran for reelection in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and won in the solidly Republican district. Previously, Loudermilk was a member of the Georgia State Senate from 2011–13 and the Georgia House of Representatives from 2005–11. An … Read more
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About David Perdue (R-Ga.) served in the U.S. Senate from 2015–21, and in 2022, with Trump’s endorsement, he made an unsuccessful bid to run for governor of Georgia but lost the GOP primary in a landslide to incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp (R). As a senator, Perdue was accused of corruption for his stock trading activity … Read more
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Sidney Powell is a far-right, Dallas-based attorney and former federal prosecutor who has been associated with QAnon and readily promotes conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.
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About Brad Raffensperger (R) has served as Georgia’s secretary of state since January 2019 and won reelection in 2022. Based on his unwillingness to break the law in 2020 when Trump pressured him to “find” enough votes to alter the actual outcome of the presidential election in Georgia, Raffensperger faced a primary challenge from a … Read more
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Donald Trump is a businessman who served one term as president of the U.S., holding office from Jan. 20, 2017–Jan. 20, 2021. He was the first president in U.S. history with no prior experience in government or the military, and by the end of his term in office, he also became the first president to be impeached twice.