The lead prosecutor in Donald Trump’s Georgia election meddling case has won the state’s Democratic primary election in her bid for a second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fulton Country District Attorney Fani Willis defeated challenger Christian Wise during Tuesday’s primary and will now face Republican Courtney Kramer in November’s general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judge Scott McAfee, the judge presiding over Mr Trump’s Georgia case, also won his first full term, after he was appointed to the court last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two Georgia figures have drawn intense scrutiny for their role in the high-profile criminal case against Mr Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judge McAfee was appointed to the bench by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to fill an empty seat. On Tuesday, he won a nonpartisan judicial race and was elected directly to the seat by Atlanta-area voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On 5 November Ms Willis will face Ms Kramer, a Republican lawyer who interned in the Trump White House and was accused of playing a role in overturning Georgia’s 2020 election results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms Kramer faces an uphill battle to victory in the Democratic stronghold of Fulton County, which includes Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her campaign, though, will likely focus on criticism of Ms Willis’s handling of the Trump case, which includes allegations of misconduct related to an affair<\/u><\/a> with her former co-prosecutor Nathan Wade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms Willis’s election victory follows controversy over revelations of her romantic relationship with Mr Wade, a special prosecutor she appointed to Mr Trump’s case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Wade resigned from the case after details of his romantic relationship with Ms Willis were brought to light in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms Willis, who has denied allegations of impropriety, remained on the case while Judge McAfee denied Mr Trump’s lawyers’ requests to have her removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the Georgia Court of Appeals is reviewing whether to overturn the judge’s ruling and remove Ms Willis from the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The appeals court’s review slows the legal proceedings and makes it unlikely that the case will go to trial before the presidential election in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Republicans in Georgia and Washington have launched investigations into Ms Willis and her office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI need people around the country to support me big and small, to think that we are going to be a country that still believes in the rule of law,” she told The Rachel Maddow Show on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are not going to allow people to be attacked while they do their job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n