Category: Federal Legislator — Former U.S. Representative
Role: U.S. Representative (GA-10, 2015-2023); Trump-endorsed candidate for Georgia Secretary of State 2022 (lost to Raffensperger); participated in fake elector strategy discussions per January 6 committee testimony; subpoenaed by Fulton County DA in Georgia election investigation; voted to object to Electoral College certification
Priority: P0

Documented Actions: 2021-2026 Timeline

2021: Electoral Objection and Secretary of State Campaign Launch

January 6, 2021: Hice voted to object to certification of Georgia’s Electoral College results — notable because he was objecting to results certified by the Republican Secretary of State in his own state.

March 2021: Hice announced his candidacy for Georgia Secretary of State, directly challenging incumbent Republican Brad Raffensperger — the official who refused Trump’s pressure to “find 11,780 votes.” Trump endorsed Hice, making the race a proxy battle between Trump’s election denialism and institutional integrity.

2022: Fake Elector Involvement, Subpoenas, and Primary Loss

June 2022: January 6 committee testimony revealed Hice participated in strategic discussions with Mark Meadows about replacing legitimate electors with fake slates of pro-Trump electors in battleground states. Hice was among those members whose involvement in the fake elector scheme was documented through testimony and communications.

May 24, 2022: Hice lost the Georgia Secretary of State Republican primary to Raffensperger decisively. Raffensperger’s victory was widely seen as a rejection of election denialism by Georgia Republican voters.

July 2022: Fulton County DA Fani Willis subpoenaed Hice to testify before a special grand jury investigating Trump’s efforts to interfere with Georgia’s 2020 election. Hice challenged the subpoena, arguing congressional privilege.

2023: Left Congress

SourcesWikipedia (Jody Hice); Georgia Public Broadcasting; CNN; HuffPost; January 6 committee testimonyHice did not seek reelection to his congressional seat (having run for SoS instead) and left Congress in January 2023. He was not among those indicted in the August 2023 Georgia RICO case (State of Georgia v. Trump et al., Case No. 23SC188947, Fulton County Superior Court), though his involvement in fake elector discussions was documented.

Pattern Analysis

Hice represents the “institutional capture” model of election denial: a sitting congressman who sought to replace the election official who refused to overturn results with himself — someone who would have complied. His primary loss to Raffensperger was one of the most significant electoral rejections of Trump’s election denial apparatus in 2022, demonstrating that Republican voters in swing states had limits on election denialism that voters in safe red states did not.

Severity Assessment

Immediate harm: High — participated in fake elector strategy; sought to replace honest election official; would have controlled Georgia election machinery if elected Democratic erosion: Critical — attempted to capture state election apparatus; fake elector participation; directly challenged official who defended election integrity Authoritarian markers: Institutional capture attempt; fake elector scheme; Trump endorsement as reward for election denial; sought control of election machinery

Accountability Status

Current status: Out of office since January 2023; not criminally charged in Georgia RICO case; subpoena from Fulton County DA Legal exposure: Subpoenaed in Georgia investigation; fake elector participation documented; not indicted Election status: Lost 2022 SoS primary to Raffensperger; left Congress

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For Trump Supporters: Questions Worth Considering

Jody Hice objected to the certification of Georgia’s electoral votes on January 6, 2021 — and Georgia’s election was run by Republicans. The Secretary of State who certified those results, Brad Raffensperger, is a Republican who refused Trump’s documented request to “find 11,780 votes.” Trump then recruited Hice to primary Raffensperger — specifically because Raffensperger had defended the integrity of his own state’s election. Hice lost that primary by a decisive margin, with Georgia Republican voters siding with Raffensperger over the Trump-endorsed election denier.

Here’s a question worth sitting with: Trump, with Hice’s cooperation, tried to replace the Republican official who certified a fair election with an ally who would not. Georgia Republican voters said no. If the goal were genuinely to ensure election integrity, why would the target be the official who upheld the process — and not the candidates who sought to replace integrity with compliance? What does it mean that the effort was specifically to install someone who would have done what Raffensperger refused to do?

A second question about the fake elector strategy: Hice participated in discussions with Mark Meadows about using fake electoral certificates to override Georgia’s certified results — while simultaneously running for Secretary of State, the office that certifies Georgia’s elections. The combination of those two tracks — fake electors while seeking to control future certifications — isn’t just election denial. It’s an attempt to capture the institutional machinery of elections for a future in which the results might need to be managed differently. Does the institutional capture aspect of that plan concern you? Apply the same question if a Democratic congressman had tried to do this to a Republican-won state.

Sources

• Georgia Public Broadcasting: “Rep. Jody Hice Announces Secretary Of State Run” (March 2021)
• CNN: “GOP Rep. Jody Hice challenges subpoena from Georgia DA in Trump election probe” (July 2022)
• HuffPost: “Jan. 6 Testimony Reveals Top Candidate For Georgia Election Post Conspired To Overturn 2020 Result” (2022)
• GPB: “U.S. Rep. Hice subpoenaed in Georgia election investigation” (July 2022)
• Wikipedia: Jody Hice

Last Updated: May 11, 2026
Profile Status: Inactive — out of office; monitoring for potential legal exposure
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