Trump had attacked Georgia Governor Brian Kemp for failing to overturn the 2020 election for over three years before Thursday.
Former President Donald Trump is embracing one of his biggest Republican enemies as polls in a key battleground state show that he is in danger of losing to Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump launched a crusade against Georgia Governor Brian Kemp after the state legally certified President Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election, having demanded that Kemp and other Republican Georgia officials overturn the result. Trump has repeatedly lashed out at Kemp as “disloyal” and referred to him as “little Brian Kemp.”
Polls showed President Joe Biden, who won Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020, trailing Trump by significant margins in the months before he dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris on July 21. The polling picture has since dramatically shifted, with FiveThirtyEight’s latest average of recent polls showing Trump leading Harris in the state by just 0.5 percent.
Kemp continued to back Trump even while the former president launched a series of often personal insults against him and his family as recently as earlier this month.
