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Zorro

(15,724 posts)
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 06:22 PM Dec 2020

Trumpworld Wants to Primary GOP Gov. Brian Kemp

Bristling at his defeat in Georgia, President Donald Trump increasingly believes that Gov. Brian Kemp has not done enough to deliver him a victory or challenge the state’s election results. Now, sources close to the president—and Republicans in Georgia—say it is a foregone conclusion that Trump will help stand up a primary challenger to Kemp when the Republican is up for re-election in 2022.

“It’s a fait accompli,” said one veteran Trump political adviser.

According to two people who’ve discussed Kemp with the president this month, Trump has largely focused on how Kemp would be “nothing” without him or his endorsement in the 2018 gubernatorial primary. The president has also mentioned that he’s looking forward to fundraising and campaigning against Kemp in Georgia, in the likelihood that a GOP primary challenger emerges.

One of the sources said that Trump had privately compared his desire to see Kemp’s political future ruined to how he wanted to see the political implosion of his former attorney general, Jeff Sessions, during an attempted comeback this year in Alabama.

Kemp’s office did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Beast. But not everyone allied with the president thought that challenging the governor would be a good idea.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpworld-wants-to-primary-gop-gov-brian-kemp

Ha ha ha.

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Trumpworld Wants to Primary GOP Gov. Brian Kemp (Original Post) Zorro Dec 2020 OP
What a vindictive POS.... secondwind Dec 2020 #1
Damn, Trump. I detest Kemp. Don't make me have ANY reflexive sympathy for that creep! hlthe2b Dec 2020 #2
KKKemp was trump's boy up until he lost. Cracking me up. Hoyt Dec 2020 #3
Um, trump's political power is ... gone. Nobody around him has the nerve to break the news. PSPS Dec 2020 #4
RETHUGLICONS bluestarone Dec 2020 #5
I'm enjoying Kemp's situation liberal_mama Dec 2020 #6
How important will Trump be in 2022? keithbvadu2 Dec 2020 #7
How very sad for Gov. Kemp... comradebillyboy Dec 2020 #8

hlthe2b

(102,138 posts)
2. Damn, Trump. I detest Kemp. Don't make me have ANY reflexive sympathy for that creep!
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 06:26 PM
Dec 2020

Geebus. Trump v Kemp?

liberal_mama

(1,495 posts)
6. I'm enjoying Kemp's situation
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 06:44 PM
Dec 2020

A lot of people in Georgia are dead because of his covid downplaying and re-opening prematurely to pander to Trump. Kemp deserves all the misery Trump gives him.

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