Trump picks a pointless fight with Georgia Republicans - it could cost him

Trump picks a pointless fight with Georgia Republicans – it could cost him
George Chidi
in Atlanta

His tirade against the popular governor and secretary of state was highly unwise. Maga is not a majority in Georgia


(Guardian UK) All Donald Trump had to do on Saturday in Georgia is show up, bring the tent together and not pick a fight with other Republicans. It might have been money in the bag.

Instead, Trump attacked Governor Brian Kemp, who is substantially more popular in Georgia than he is. Early in his comments, Trump pointed to a few recent high-profile murders in Atlanta, saying: “Atlanta is like a killing field, and your governor should get off his ass and do something about it.”

Trump was just warming up. In between praising three Republicans on the election board who are supposed to be neutral arbiters of election practices, and repeating a bizarre, false and previously debunked claim that Al Capone faced fewer indictments than he did, Trump went on an 11-minute tirade about Kemp and the secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, with a side jab at the attorney general, Chris Carr, for spite. None of them attended the rally.

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But Maga is not a majority in Georgia, if anywhere. Republicans cannot win this state when conventional conservatives abandon the party, as Herschel Walker’s Trump-inflected US Senate challenge against Raphael Warnock demonstrated two years ago. ...........(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/05/trump-atlanta-rally-brian-kemp-republicans