Georgia GOP Chairman says party is united behind electors targeted in prosecution

Georgia GOP Chairman Josh McKoon says that the party is fully united behind the electors that have been targeted by the Fulton County district attorney's investigation.

"The Georgia Republican Party is united to stand behind our electors – everyone that's been wrongly tied up in the sham prosecution," McKoon told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "This is the United States of America. We don't settle political disagreements by prosecuting our political opponents."

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is investigating Trump for challenging the 2020 presidential election, previously notified the 16 Republican contingent electors that they were targets of her investigation. In May, at least eight of the electors were granted immunity in the probe.

"If this is allowed to move forward, it will not stop with Donald Trump," McKoon said. "It will not stop with the other 18 people caught up in this. We will be living with this for the rest of our lives. This is not the country that we want to have. We want to have a country where political disputes are solved at the ballot box."

Trump and 18 of his allies were indicted Monday night by a Georgia grand jury for engaging in a broad conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.

The charges that Trump and the others – including Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani – are facing include allegedly making false statements to officials and false statements in relation to voting machines and "false electors."

The Georgia GOP launched a website to raise funds for the legal defense of the electors.

"The fact that these patriots have been 'targeted' by Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis is an outrageous assault on the rule and law and our First Amendment freedoms," said McKoon in a statement.