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Saturday, May 16, 2026

Trump’s vendetta against Kemp escalates ahead of his Georgia rally - The Atlanta Journal Constitution

Donald Trump’s vow to exact revenge on Brian Kemp has morphed into an all-out effort to also punish the governor’s closest allies.

For the second time in as many weeks, the former president endorsed a little-known Republican challenger to one of Kemp’s closest political loyalists. In both cases, the Trump-backed candidates launched last-minute campaigns against the pro-Kemp incumbents just ahead of a March deadline.

The latest beneficiary of Trump’s blessing is John Gordon, a conservative lawyer who announced his challenge to Attorney General Chris Carr with effusive praise for Trump. Gordon renewed his expired law license last year to help Trump’s failed legal challenge of the Georgia election results and recently told WDUN that ”there is no question in my mind that Donald Trump won Georgia.”

Trump indicated Tuesday his support had more to do with Carr than Gordon, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for state Senate in 2018. In a statement, Trump claimed Carr did “absolutely nothing” to support his false claims of rampant election fraud in Georgia.

“Chris Carr was a disaster every step of the way,” Trump said. “He wasn’t looking for election integrity, but rather an easy way out.”

There is no evidence of widespread voting fraud in Georgia. Three separate tallies of Georgia’s election have confirmed Trump’s defeat to President Joe Biden, and bipartisan election officials have repeatedly vouched for the results.

Up until recently, Carr managed to avoid Trump’s wrath. In...



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