And Biden’s low approval marks have given Republicans hope they can not only keep the governor’s mansion in Georgia, but defeat U.S. Trump, a key driver of Democratic protest votes in 20, is no longer president. Since then, the once-conservative state was ravaged economically by the COVID-19 pandemic, elected two new Democratic senators and backed President Joe Biden, and passed the new restrictive voting law. The two find themselves in a drastically different political environment than four years ago, when Kemp edged Abrams by 1.4 percentage points. Kemp’s victory sets up a rematch in the governor's race with Democrat Stacey Abrams, who was unopposed in her primary. Senate primary, where former football star Herschel Walker won easily. Trump's endorsement did help turn the tide in the Republican U.S. Raffensperger has had a more adversarial relationship with Trump over the ex-president’s fraud claims, going so far as writing a book in part about how he stood up to him.īut Raffensperger ultimately pulled out a win over Hice, meaning that both Trump-backed candidates who parroted his election-fraud claims went down in defeat. He pointed to the close race between Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his Republican challenger, Jody Hice, who also has backed Trump’s fraud claims. Williams, however, doesn’t see the result as a barometer of Trump’s popularity in the state. Perdue’s main argument - that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump - wasn’t enough to convince most voters to make a switch, Williams said. Jay Williams, a Republican strategist in Georgia, said Perdue failed to provide voters with a rationale why they should unseat Kemp, a staunch conservative who worked with the legislature to pass a wide-ranging measure that curbed voting access, among other things. On Tuesday in Georgia, incumbent Governor Brian Kemp swamped Trump's favored candidate, David Perdue, in the Republican gubernatorial primary - the third primary a Trump-backed candidate for governor has lost this year. Representative Madison Cawthorn lost his re-election bid in North Carolina despite Trump's support. Last week, Trump’s endorsement of TV wellness expert Mehmet Oz failed to clearly put him over the top in Pennsylvania's Republican U.S. With each election, the limits of former President Donald Trump’s power over the Republican Party have revealed themselves. Here are three takeaways from the primary election: TRUMP TAKES LUMPS Senate race in November's midterm elections took shape in Georgia on Tuesday. WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) - The match-ups for a high-profile governor and U.S.
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