The Republicans Keeping MAGA Chaos at Bay and Defending Democracy in Georgia

The Republicans interviewed for this piece — all of whom strongly rejected Trump’s conspiratorial claims — chafed at the accusation that their party was trying to suppress the vote. 

Marc Hyden, a conservative and former staffer in the Georgia state senate who today works as the Director of Government Affairs at the nonpartisan R Street Institute, called the Jim Crow claims a “really unfair comparison,” saying “You look at these reforms that require you to have an ID to vote, change the number of days that you can send in a mail-in ballot — these are not the same. These are apples and oranges.”