Bee Nguyen concedes in race for Georgia's Secretary of State

Bee Nguyen sought to become Georgia's Secretary of State.

Overshadowed by races that garnered national attention, Bee Nguyen, running against the incumbent Secretary of State, conceded late Tuesday night.

In a tweet, Democratic candidate Nguyen said about 11:30 p.m. that she had conceded to Republican Brad Raffensperger, who was in the national spotlight in 2020 when he refused Donald Trump's arm-twisting to "find" enough votes to deliver the state's electoral votes to the Republican after then-candidate Joe Biden turned Georgia blue.

Raffensperger, who gained national attention in the wake of the 2020 presidential election controversy, was leading in his bid to win re-election Tuesday in the state’s 2022 midterms.

At presstime Wednesday morning, Raffensperger was leading Vietnamese American Nguyen, a former state lawmaker with 53% of the vote to Nguyen’s 43%.

Nguyen, who worked closely with gubernatorial challenger Stacey Abrams, said, "I'm grateful to be in a race where we can have a phone call and wish each other well."

Elsewhere in Georgia, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp was successful in staving off Democrat Stacey Abrams' bid to unseat him by gaining 54% of the vote vs. 46% for Abrams.

The other high-profile race in the state was for Democratic US Senator Raphael Warnock's seat who was being challenged by football legend Herschel Walker., a Republican. With each  candidate failing to win over 50% of the votes, the contest may be headed for a run-off in four weeks.

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