- 25 May 2022 13:56
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Here in my state of Georgia, the Republican primary results indicate that Trump's days of waving some sort of magic wand and making a Republican candidate the nominee to run in General Elections are over. Trump sought to unseat Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger because he refused to go along with Trump's election lies. This failed. Trump also sought to unseat Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr and also failed there. So, for me, in my state, and for the whole country, this is good news for American freedom and democracy.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/politics ... index.html
Maeve Reston of CNN wrote: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will defeat Trump-backed primary challengers, CNN projected Tuesday – a blow to the former President’s efforts to punish them for refusing to help him overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
The losses of election deniers backed by Trump in the Peach State – one of five states holding primaries Tuesday – offers clues about Republican voters’ willingness to spurn the former President’s vanity campaigns and move on from his lies about the 2020 election.
The Trump-backed candidate in the Republican primary for Georgia attorney general, John Gordon, will also lose to incumbent Chris Carr, CNN projects.
Kemp will face Democrat Stacey Abrams, who ran unopposed in Tuesday’s primary, in a rematch of their 2018 race, which Abrams narrowly lost.
The governor made no explicit mention of Trump in his victory speech Tuesday night.
“Even in the middle of a tough primary, conservatives across our state didn’t listen to the noise,” the governor said to a few hundred supporters at the College Football Hall of Fame in downtown Atlanta. “They didn’t get distracted; they knew our record of fighting and winning for hard-working Georgians.”
Kemp thanked Perdue, whom Trump had recruited to run against him, for a gracious concession call and his pledge to work together to keep the governor’s office in Republican hands.
“Everything I said about Brian Kemp was true, but here’s the other thing I said that’s true: He is a much better choice than Stacey Abrams and so we are going to get behind our governor,” Perdue said Tuesday night. “Let’s take a few hours, lick our wounds, and tomorrow morning, you are going to hear me going to work for Brian Kemp and making damn sure that Stacey Abrams is never governor of Georgia.”
Kemp devoted the majority of his victory speech to assailing Abrams.
“Tonight, the fight for the soul of our state is to make sure that Stacey Abrams will not be our next governor or next President,” Kemp said.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/politics ... index.html
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