Former President Donald Trump is focusing most of his ire over losing the 2020 election on Georgia, where he will put his status as a GOP kingmaker on the line this weekend to turn voters against the state’s Republican governor and other party incumbents.
Trump is scheduled to hold a rally in north Georgia on Saturday night to boost former U.S. Senator David Perdue, whom he recruited to run against Governor Brian Kemp, and Representative Jody Hice, who is squaring off against Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, another Republican.
Trump began a public quest to oust both incumbents after they refused to overturn his loss to Joe Biden. The rally will highlight other Trump-endorsed candidates, including former football star Herschel Walker, who is running to challenge Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock.
But it’s the Republican gubernatorial primary that has the highest stakes for the former president. Polls show Perdue faltering and Kemp holding as much as a double-digit lead for the May 24 contest and nearly 15 times as much cash on hand.
A Kemp victory in the primary would represent an embarrassing setback for Trump, who in 2020 became the first Republican presidential candidate to lose the state in 28 years. It would provide the strongest incentive yet for segments of the party eager to move on from Trump and his false claims about the last election, and likely ease trepidation among 2024 presidential aspirants.
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