Several advisers and confidants of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis privately urged her in recent weeks to encourage top prosecutor Nathan Wade voluntarily step aside, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. ...

Wade is interchangeable and could be replaced without forcing the case to be assigned to another prosecutor's office, multiple sources familiar with the situation stressed before and after he testified on Thursday. 

Privately, Wade has told others working on the Georgia election case he does not want to be a distraction, according to two sources familiar with the matter.