Tuesday may be the most significant primary day yet — potentially of the entire election season — for former president Donald Trump. That’s largely because of one state: Georgia.
In 2020, Trump became the first Republican president to lose the state since 1992. He’s heavily focused on Georgia’s intraparty battles as a test of the Republican Party’s support of his false claims of election fraud.
Democrats have some drama Tuesday, too, with liberal challengers poised to score a big win against the party’s establishment.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is as conservative as they come, but he refused to help Trump overturn his 2020 loss in the state.
So Trump recruited a marquee name to challenge him — former Republican senator David Perdue. Perdue has had a windy path to Trumpism. Once an establishment Republican figure, Perdue lost his Senate seat in the 2021 runoff — a loss GOP Senate leaders blame on Trump and his fraud claims. But now Perdue is wholeheartedly embracing false election claims in his bid to unseat Georgia’s sitting governor. This month, a federal judge threw out his lawsuit claiming election fraud in 2020.
Kemp is heavily favored to win, and has the backing of the Republican Governors Association — which normally stays out of primaries, The Washington Post previously reported — as well as an endorsement from Trump’s former No. 2, Mike Pence.
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