A Georgia Democrat seeks to unseat an indicted Trump elector who says he only did what he was told

DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — A young Georgia Democrat is raising big money from voters across the country by labeling a suburban Atlanta senate race as a chance to unseat a Republican election denier.

Although incumbent Shawn Still was one of 18 people indicted alongside Donald Trump in Georgia’s Fulton County in 2023, Still says first-time candidate Ashwin Ramaswami is wrong to label him as a partisan plotter.

The race won’t disrupt the comfortably gerrymandered 33-22 Republican majority in Georgia’s upper chamber. But as Democrats try to chip away suburban Atlanta Republican voters who are turned off by Trump and his crusade against the 2020 election results, the race will test whether they can replicate gains from statewide races in local elections.

While Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t put fighting election denial at the forefront of her campaign the way President Joe Biden did, Democrats are still positioning themselves as defenders of democracy against Republican attacks.

Still was one of three Trump electors indicted on felony charges in Fulton County, along with Trump, Rudy Giuliani and 14 other Trump associates. Prosecutors call the 16 Republicans who gathered in the Georgia Capitol in December 2020 “fake electors.”

The 25-year-old Ramaswami, who majored in computer science at Stanford University, was still in law school last year when he learned about Still’s role. The Democrat was working on a similar case case in Wisconsin, he said, and recognized the name of his hometown senator in testimony before the House Jan. 6 committee.

“There’s this pattern of Shawn Still really trying to undermine our votes, of Democrats and Republicans alike,” Ramaswami said.

Still says Ramaswami is falsely mischaracterizing him as an anti-democratic extremist.

“I think that’s all he...