“When Brian Kemp’s top donors huddled with the Georgia governor and his lieutenants at Atlanta’s Capital City Club earlier this year, they had reason to worry that his political career was about to come to an end,” Politico reports.

“Former President Donald Trump had spent the previous year savaging the Republican governor for refusing to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results, and he was bent on ousting the governor from office, recruiting and endorsing Kemp’s primary opponent. Few Republicans in recent years had survived Trump’s wrath. But the Kemp team reassured the nearly 200 well-heeled contributors in attendance they had a plan.”

Said Kemp adviser Jay Walker: “We’re going to go fucking scorched-earth. When you got your foot on someone’s neck, you don’t take it off until the race is over, or they’ve run out of oxygen.”

Rolling Stone: David Perdue’s pathetic, racist, conspiracy-ridden Georgia Governor campaign is officially over.

We have another batch of primaries today in Alabama, Arkansas and Georgia, along with several runoffs in Texas and a special election in Minnesota.

Here are the poll closing times:

• Georgia: 7:00 p.m. ET
• Alabama: 8:00 p.m. ET
• Texas: 8:00 p.m. ET
• Arkansas: 8:30 p.m. ET
• Minnesota 9:00 p.m. ET

Leave your reactions in the comments as results come in.

“Democratic billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried says he could spend $1 billion or more in the 2024 election, which would easily make him the biggest-ever political donor in a single election,” NBC News reports.

“Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, said in a podcast interview released Tuesday that he expects to give ‘north of $100 million’ in the next presidential election and has a ‘soft ceiling’ of $1 billion, with his spending likely to be on the higher end if former President Donald Trump runs again.”

Jonathan Last: “I’ve been saying since November 2020 that, barring a health event, Biden will run for re-election in 2024 for one simple reason: There is no other option.”

“The Democratic coalition is currently made up of a giant mass of factions, some of which are in tension. They cannot win the presidency without getting close to 52 percent of the popular vote and even that margin gives them only about a 50-50 shot of winning the Electoral College.”

“Democrats need to hold together (and turn out) progressives, African Americans, young voters, women, Hispanics, and college-educated suburban voters. They need to do this without losing even more ground to white, high-school-educated men.”

“Joe Biden is the only Democrat even theoretically capable of shouldering this burden.”