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Billionaire who beat Trump's pick in Georgia faces fallout over leaked recording: analysis
Narrative Analysis: Card Stacking

A MAGA billionaire gubernatorial candidate in Georgia was under fire on Wednesday after a recording surfaced with him reportedly agreeing that women should have to 'prove' they were raped in order to qualify for an abortion, according to a report from The Daily Beast.Rick Jackson defeated Burt Jones — a candidate backed by President Donald Trump — in the GOP primary on Tuesday night. The shock win has rocked the Republican Party as the new audio was revealed the next day.The recording was reviewed by The Beast and apparently made at a campaign event before Jackson's victory. In it, the healthcare executive talks about abortion with a voter who objected to exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape.A voter said in the recording that if a woman is saying she was raped, she needs to prove it.Jackson responded to that comment and agreed, The Beast reported.“I just want to see babies born, no matter how they were conceived,” the woman said in the recording. I mean, the whole thing about a rape exception and everything, it’s like, I mean I know it’s horrible, but two wrongs don’t make a right.They’ve still got a life, Jackson said, agreeing with the voter.Yeah, it’s still a life, the woman added, and it seems to me if a woman is saying she was raped she needs to prove it.Right, got you, Jackson responded.Jackson's campaign has disputed the characterization of the recording, and argued that critics have misrepresented his position on the topic.
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