ATLANTA — Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger began testifying before a Fulton County special purpose grand jury on Thursday, the first of a flurry of interviews with top Georgia elections officials that are slated for the week ahead as the district attorney's probe into the 2020 election speeds up.
Raffensperger, a Republican who recently won his party's nomination for a second term, checked in at the DA's office around 9 a.m. after briefly waving to the media stationed at the front steps of the county courthouse in downtown Atlanta.
He's expected to be the star witness in the 16-month-old investigation, which is centered on the phone call that Donald Trump placed to Raffensperger in January 2021, during which the former president urged Raffensperger to "find" exactly enough votes to overturn Joe Biden's win in Georgia.
