Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis, the Democratic prosecutor who brought charges against former President Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, faces a rare Republican challenger in her bid for reelection in the state’s most populous county, the Associated Press reports. Courtney Kramer, a lawyer who interned in the White House counsel’s office under Trump, said she wants to bring transparency and accountability to the office. Willis, who easily fended off a challenge from the left in May’s Democratic primary, is confident she’ll win. “She’s going to lose and she’s going to lose badly,” Willis said of Kramer. Willis said voters should give her four more years because of her record in office, including a pre-indictment diversion program she started and a program in schools to encourage students to choose alternatives to gangs and crime, as well as reductions in homicides and in the backlog of unindicted cases.
Fulton County, home to about 11% of the state’s electorate, is a Democratic stronghold where no Republican has run for district attorney since 2000. Willis has raised $2.1 million, compared to Kramer’s $278,000, and is heavily favored. Kramer, 31, who grew up in Fulton County and knows the political landscape, has visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, posted photos of herself with a “who’s who” of MAGA personalities on Instagram and claims many of the former president’s staunchest allies in Georgia as friends. She says that shouldn’t stop anyone — even Democrats — from voting for her. Her mantra for the campaign has been: “It’s not about right versus left, it’s about right versus wrong.” Willis, 53, became district attorney in January 2021 and became nationally prominent a month later when she announced she was investigating whether Trump and others broke any laws while trying to overturn his narrow 2020 presidential election loss in the state to Joe Biden. She obtained a sprawling racketeering indictment against Trump and 18 others in August 2023.
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