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Trump endorsed Clay Fuller, a district attorney who calls himself a MAGA warrior, but another high-profile Republican on the ballot is Colton Moore, one of the most conservative lawmakers in the state.
Some voters in the district say he is more like Trump.
More than a dozen candidates, Democrats, Republicans, an Independent and a Libertarian, are on the ballot.
If nobody earns a majority, the top two, regardless of party, head to an April runoff.
Stephen Fowler, NPR News, Atlanta.
Hello.
Just to recap, we found that there were 53 pages that appeared to be missing from that public Epstein Files database.
They all related to an allegation that President Trump sexually abused a minor in the early 1980s.
There was a mention of this explicit allegation found in a Justice Department PowerPoint from last year that was in the files, and also an FBI email kind of recapping all of the claims made about Trump.
But we couldn't find it anywhere else in these files.
Looking at some of the other documents, we were able to find that the FBI interviewed this woman as an adult in 2019 four separate times.
Only one of those interviews was initially published in the Epstein files, and it didn't mention Trump at all.
Now, we do have some of those files, 16 pages covering three other interviews, plus a two-page sheet detailing the initial tip that was called in.
These interviews do go into more explicit detail about what Trump was alleged to have done to her when she was a teenager, forcing her head down onto his penis.
She allegedly bit it.
He said foul words and hit her head.
There's also an interview, which was the final one in 2019.
And this woman was asked whether she, quote, felt comfortable detailing her contacts with Trump.
And she reportedly asked, quote, what the point would be of providing this information at this point in her life when there was a strong possibility nothing could be done about it.
Remember, these interviews took place during Trump's first term in office.