Donald Trump lost Georgia in 2020, and he seems bound and determined to lose there again in 2024.
“He’s a bad guy, he’s a disloyal guy, and he’s a very average governor,” the ex-president said of the sitting Georgia governor, Brian Kemp, at a campaign rally in Atlanta on Saturday.
Seriously, Trump is picking a public fight with a Republican governor with a 63 percent approval rating.
That particular dig at Kemp, whose crime against Trump is that he didn’t direct the Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, to “find 11,780 votes” for Trump to give him the state’s electoral votes in the 2020 election, came hours after a lengthy missive on Trump’s Truth Social blasting Kemp mainly for personal slights.
“He and his wife didn’t think he could win. I said, ‘I’m telling you you’re going to win.’ Then he won, he was happy, and his wife said, ‘Thank you Sir, we’ll never be able to make it up to you!’ Now she says she won’t Endorse me, and is going to “write in Brian Kemp’s name.” Well, I don’t want her Endorsement, and I don’t want his. They’re the ones who got Fani Willis and her boyfriend all “jazzed up” and ready to go. He could have ended that travesty with a phone call, but he doesn’t want to end it because he’s a bad guy….”
So, yeah, this is going to end well for Trump, who just a couple of weeks ago seemed to be an inevitability, but now finds himself trailing in the national polls to Kamala Harris, who is benefitting from newfound enthusiasm from Democrats and Never Trumpers now that she’s replaced Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket.
Trump can ill afford to hand a usually reliable Republican state like Georgia to the Democrats, but Republicans in the state seem to think he is doing exactly that by going after Kemp.
“I’m sitting here scratching my head,” former Kemp campaign manager Bobby Saparow told Politico. “Attacking the popular governor of a pivotal swing state makes zero sense. If we want to actually unite, ask for the support of the guy who beat your endorsed primary opponent by 52 points and handily defeated Stacey Abrams.”
“I think the more important point is that you’re trying to unify your party, and you personally attack the most popular politician in the state who has said he’s supporting you. It’s batshit crazy,” an unnamed Georgia GOP operative told Politico. “It’s batshit crazy.”
One more along those lines:
“A lot of Republicans like me might just decide not to vote at all in the presidential election because of stupid antics like tonight. Trump may have just lost Georgia,” former Republican state legislator Allen Peake told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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