[VIDEO] Let's Talk Elections takes a look at the primary next year for Georgia Governor. Incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp does have primary challengers in this race and barely eked out a victory in 2018 when he faced off against former state Rep. Stacy Abrams. In 2018, then Secretary of State Kemp had the endorsement of then President Donald Trump to be able to beat a challenge in his primary. In Georgia if you fail to get more at least 50% of the vote in an election there must be a run-off.
So if you look at the 2018 election page in the GOP primary runoff. You see that Kemp actually was losing to then GA Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle. With Pres. Trump's endorsement Kemp was successful in his runoff election and went on to win against the Democrat Abrams.
Of course since we had the fallout from the 2020 president race and the perception that Gov. Kemp wasn't as much help as Trump sought to "overturn" the results in GA the incumbent Governor won't get the former President's endorsement. Now that endorsement goes to former US Senator from GA David Perdue. He also had former state Rep. Vernon Jones in the primary - he is a former Democrat and spoke at the 2020 Republican convention.
Either way we shall see what happens. It was a bit shocking that both of GA's US Senate seats went Democrat which I could attribute to the fallout from Pres. Trump's continued attempts to challenge the now Pres. Joe Bran....Biden's election victory. GA is a state I had viewed as a solidly red state, however, the work of Stacy Abrams may well show the GA is in fact a purple state thanks to some demographic changes.
This race in a predicted red wave year should be an interesting one. Perhaps we shall see if Abrams could become GA's first Black woman and first Spelman woman to become Governor.
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