Two incumbents roared to victory despite his opposition.
Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, both Republicans who refused to go along with the Big Lie and help steal their state’s electoral votes for Donald Trump, easily won their primaries yesterday despite the former President’s active opposition. POLITICO:
Gov. Brian Kemp clinched his GOP primary early Tuesday night despite facing a Donald Trump-endorsed challenger — a major win for the GOP governor ahead of what’s expected to be a hard-fought general election campaign, and part of a broader rebuke in Georgia for Trump, whose pick for secretary of state also fell to the incumbent Republican. Kemp defeated Trump-endorsed David Perdue, who was recruited into the race by Trump. The former president has attacked Kemp repeatedly since the 2020 election, when Kemp refused Trump’s pressure to not certify the election after President Joe Biden narrowly won the state. Kemp will face Democrat Stacey Abrams in a general election rematch of their 2018 contest, after Abrams won her party’s nomination unopposed.
