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Brian Kemp Gets Primary Challenge

April 16, 2021 at 12:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A former Democratic state legislator who switched parties after he endorsed Donald Trump is set to launch an insurgent challenge Friday against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, setting the stage for a race that will test the former president’s influence in Georgia,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

“Vernon Jones aims to tap into GOP anger at Kemp for resisting Trump’s demands to overturn Joe Biden’s narrow victory in Georgia in November, though his long record as an elected Democratic official seems certain to complicate his bid to win over Republican voters.”

Kemp was always going to have a tough re-election race, especially if Stacey Abrams runs again. This will only make it harder.

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov

Brian Kemp Tries to Win Back Trump

April 8, 2021 at 4:38 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “Since signing the bill into law on March 25, Mr. Kemp has done roughly 50 interviews, 14 with Fox News, promoting the new restrictions with messaging that aligns with Mr. Trump’s baseless claims that the election was rigged against him.”

“A political reversal of fortune would represent an unlikely turnaround for Mr. Kemp, making him the most prominent Republican to find a way to overcome Mr. Trump’s campaign of retribution, and perhaps providing an early test of the former president’s ability to impose his will on the party’s electoral future.”

Meanwhile, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) is not expected to run for re-election.

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov

Brian Kemp’s Allies Start ‘Stop Stacey’ Group

February 1, 2021 at 3:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “It aims to build a national fundraising infrastructure, mobilize conservative supporters, air anti-Abrams ads and promote media narratives targeting the Democrat ahead of her expected campaign against Kemp.”

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov

Trump Calls on Georgia Governor to Resign

December 30, 2020 at 10:14 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump on Wednesday called for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to resign, escalating his criticism of a fellow Republican who has refused to intervene in the state’s presidential election or embrace Trump’s baseless claims of widespread fraud,” the Washington Post reports.

Filed Under: State House Tagged With: Brian Kemp, GA-Gov

Trumpworld Wants to Primary Brian Kemp

December 22, 2020 at 10:42 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Bristling at his defeat in Georgia, President 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,” the Daily Beast reports.

Said one Trump adviser: “It’s a fait accompli.”

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov

Trump Floats Primary Challenge to Brian Kemp

December 6, 2020 at 7:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump, while speaking at a campaign rally to gin up support for Georgia Republican senators on Saturday, floated a potential 2022 gubernatorial run by Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) to challenge Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “I want to thank Doug Collins. Thank you, Doug. What a job he does. Doug, you want to run for governor in two years?”

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov

Stacy Abrams Likely to Run for Governor Again

November 12, 2020 at 2:58 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Stacey Abrams’ political future is the subject of intense speculation after she helped turn Georgia blue for President-elect Joe Biden,” the Daily Beast reports.

“With more work on the horizon, three Democrats with knowledge of the former state house minority leader’s aspirations tell the Daily Beast that they expect her to run for governor in 2022.”

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov

Kemp Misled Voters About Security Breakdown

December 17, 2018 at 1:04 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Atlanta Journal Constitution: “Brian Kemp and his aides publicly accused the Democratic Party of Georgia of trying to hack into the voter database in a failed attempt to steal the election. The announcement added last-minute drama to an already contentious campaign. More important, it also pre-empted scrutiny of the secretary of state’s own missteps while initiating a highly unusual criminal investigation into his political rivals.”

“But no evidence supported the allegations against the Democrats at the time, and none has emerged in the six weeks since, the Journal-Constitution found. It appears unlikely that any crime occurred. … That examination suggests Kemp and his aides used his elected office to protect his political campaign from a potentially devastating embarrassment.”

Filed Under: Election Administration Tagged With: GA-Gov

Stacey Abrams Eyes Run for Senate or Governor

December 3, 2018 at 6:35 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Stacey Abrams said Monday that she is considering running for a Georgia Senate seat in 2020 or governor again in 2022,” Politico reports.

“Abrams’ drew national attention in her bid to become the first black woman governor in the United States, and the progressive political action committee Democracy for America included her in a presidential poll it opened online last week.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign, 2022 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov, GA-Sen

Voter Repression Isn’t the Same as Stealing an Election

November 19, 2018 at 9:21 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rick Hasen: “Democrats should stop with the rhetoric that the race was ‘stolen’… First, rhetoric about stolen elections feeds a growing cycle of mistrust and delegitimization of the election process… Saying Kemp tried to suppress Democratic votes and saying the election was stolen are two different things, and making charges of a stolen election when it cannot be proved undermines Democrats’ complaints about suppressive tactics.”

“Rather than questioning the election’s legitimacy or making uprovable claims of stolen elections, Democrats should focus their efforts into doing whatever is possible to prevent voter suppression and incompetence in the upcoming 2020 elections.”

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign, Election Administration Tagged With: GA-Gov

Abrams Ends Her Campaign But Won’t Concede

November 16, 2018 at 5:41 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Stacey Abrams (D) ended her run for Georgia governor as the state prepared to certify the election, but she said she would not concede the contest to Brian Kemp (R), the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

Saying the law “allows no further viable remedy” for her bid for governor against Kemp, Abrams announced a new voting rights group that will file “major” litigation against the state over electoral issues.

Abrams laced her speech with critiques of Kemp, a former secretary of state who she said was “deliberate and intentional in his actions” to suppress the vote.

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov

Abrams Considers Unprecedented Legal Challenge

November 16, 2018 at 7:19 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Stacey Abrams’ campaign and legal team is preparing an unprecedented legal challenge in the unresolved Georgia governor’s race that could leave the state’s Supreme Court deciding whether to force another round of voting,” the AP reports.

“The Democrat’s longshot strategy relies on a statute that’s never been used in such a high-stakes contest. It is being discussed as Georgia elections officials appear to be on the cusp of certifying Republican Brian Kemp as the winner of a bitterly fought campaign that’s been marred by charges of electoral malfeasance.”

Atlanta Journal Constitution: “Abrams is fast running out of options to close a deficit in the race for Georgia governor.”

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov, Stacey Abrams

Judge Orders More Georgia Ballots Counted

November 14, 2018 at 11:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A federal judge has ruled that Georgia counties must count absentee ballots even if the voter’s date of birth is incorrect or missing, and he is preventing the state from finalizing election results until that happens,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

“Although U.S. District Judge Steve Jones agreed with the Georgia Democratic Party and Stacey Abrams’ campaign on this issue, he ruled against them on two others. He will not require counties to accept absentee ballots with incorrect residence addresses or to accept provisional ballots cast by people who attempted to vote in a different county than where they are registered to vote.”

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

November 14, 2018 at 1:54 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“If Stacey Abrams doesn’t win in Georgia, they stole it. It’s clear.”

— Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), quoted by The Hill, on Georgia’s race for governor.

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov, Sherrod Brown

Clinton Questions Fairness of Georgia’s Election

November 14, 2018 at 8:19 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Hillary Clinton said that Stacey Abrams (D) would already have won Georgia’s governor race if there had been a fair election, the Austin American-Statesman reports.

Said Clinton: “If she had a fair election, she already would have won.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov

Georgia Officials Ordered to Count Provisional Ballots

November 13, 2018 at 7:21 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A federal judge on Monday ordered election officials to review thousands of provisional ballots that haven’t been counted in Georgia’s close election for governor,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

“The court decision comes as votes are still being counted in the race for governor between Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp. Abrams trails Kemp and would need to gain more than 20,000 additional votes to force a runoff election.”

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov

Georgia Officials Ordered to Count All Absentee Votes

November 12, 2018 at 5:35 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Georgia Secretary of State Robyn Crittenden told county election officials to count absentee ballots even if they lack a voter’s date of birth, as long as the voter’s identity can be verified, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

Brian Kemp (R) holds the lead over Stacey Abrams (D) in the race to become Georgia’s governor. Abrams would need to gain more than 20,000 votes to force the race into a runoff.

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign Tagged With: GA-Gov

Close Georgia Race Highlights Voting Restrictions

November 10, 2018 at 2:01 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Associated Press: “He aggressively deleted inactive voters from registration rolls, enforced an “exact match” policy that could have prevented thousands of Georgians from registering to vote and launched an investigation that disrupted a major voter registration drive.”

“Now Republican Brian Kemp is declaring himself the victor in Georgia’s race for governor, a race so close that even marginal differences in voting and turnout could make the difference in determining whether the race goes to a runoff.”

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign, Election Administration Tagged With: GA-Gov

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