29 Facts About Jody Hice

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Raffensperger refused to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia after former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Jody Hice, made baseless claims of fraud.

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Jody Hice is a native of Atlanta and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, a Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Luther Rice Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Until April 2010, Jody Hice was senior pastor of Bethlehem First Baptist Church in Bethlehem, Georgia.

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Jody Hice was senior pastor at The Summit Church, a Southern Baptist church, in Loganville, Georgia, from 2011 until December 2013, when he stepped down to run for office.

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Jody Hice started Let Freedom Ring, a talk radio show originally heard on WIMO 1300 AM, Bethlehem, Georgia.

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Jody Hice unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the US House of Representatives in Georgia's 7th congressional district in 2010, losing the runoff to former Congressional aide Rob Woodall.

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Jody Hice was the second to formally enter the race on April 15,2013, citing government spending as his foremost concern.

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8.

Jody Hice was joined by five other candidates, leading to a seven-way primary campaign.

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In January 2021, Jody Hice made an unsuccessful objection to the counting of Georgia's electoral votes.

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Jody Hice was one of the 139 Republican representatives who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Congress that day.

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On March 22,2021, Jody Hice announced that he would run against incumbent Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, in 2022.

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Raffensperger refused to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia after Trump and his Republican allies, including Jody Hice, made false claims of fraud.

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On May24,2022, Jody Hice lost the primary to Raffensperger, who garnered enough votes to avoid a runoff.

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Jody Hice has been described as a staunch Trump loyalist and an America First Republican.

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Jody Hice has said that supporters of abortion rights are worse than Adolf Hitler.

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In June 2021, Jody Hice was one of 21 House Republicans to vote against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the US Capitol on January 6.

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In 2021, during a House vote on a measure condemning the Myanmar coup d'etat that overwhelmingly passed, Jody Hice was one of 14 Republican representatives to vote against it, for reasons reported to be unclear.

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Jody Hice was one of 19 House Republicans to vote against the final passage of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.

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In February 2022, Jody Hice co-sponsored the Secure America's Borders First Act, which would prohibit the expenditure or obligation of military and security assistance to Kyiv over the US border with Mexico.

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Jody Hice has a "D" rating from pro-marijuana legalization group NORML for his voting history regarding cannabis-related issues.

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In 2015, Jody Hice cosponsored a resolution to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

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Jody Hice has compared gay relationships to incest and bestiality.

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Jody Hice was a leading supporter of the public display of the Ten Commandments in government buildings; he founded Ten Commandments Georgia, Inc.

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Jody Hice began the initiative as a pastor, waging a fight against the American Civil Liberties Union over a display in the Barrow County Courthouse, and later supported similar efforts in the Morgan County Superior Courthouse.

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In September 2008, Jody Hice was one of 33 pastors across America to participate in "Pulpit Freedom Sunday" in opposition to the Johnson Amendment, a provision of the tax code that prohibits tax-exempt organizations from endorsing or opposing political candidates.

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26.

Jody Hice has argued that Christians have been "tricked" into a "false belief" in separation of church and state.

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Jody Hice asserted that church-state separation leads to government corruption.

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In December 2020, Hice was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated Trump.

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Jody Hice voted against the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020, which authorizes DHS to nearly double the available H-2B visas for the remainder of FY 2020.