Thursday, March 28

In Georgia, the Kemp-Perdue primary is also a Trump-Pence battle


KENNESAW, Ga. – The two prominent Georgia Republicans battling in a gubernatorial primary staged election eve events featuring another pair of feuding GOP celebrities: Donald Trump and Mike Pence.

“I was for Brian Kemp before it was cool,” Pence told cheering supporters who gathered an airplane hangar in an Atlanta suburb to support the Georgia governor who faces a primary challenge on Tuesday.

Pence did not mention that Trump has attacked Kemp to the point that he hand-picked a primary challenger, former US Sen. David Perdue.

Trump, angry at Kemp for his refusal to help him overturn his 2020 loss of Georgia to President Joe Bidencountered Pence by phoning into a tele-town hall for his candidate, Perdue.

Arguing that Perdue is the most electable candidate in the fall, Trump raised the specter to low Republican turnout if Kemp is nominated. “He’s got too many people in the Republican Party that he will refuse to vote,” Trump said of the incumbent Republican governor.


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