- Trump claims that Herschel Walker will be pulled by Kemp in the 2022 vote in Georgia.
- While Walker is looking for a seat in the Senate this fall, Trump is already behind David Purdue in front of Kemp.
- Trump remains outraged that Kemp did not help in his attempts to undo Biden’s victory in Georgia.
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Former President Donald Trump continues to claim that Georgia’s Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker will be hurt by the presence of Gov. Brian Kemp on the ballot if the U.S. executive takes the GOP nomination later this month, according to The Atlanta Journal. Constitution.
In a televised rally on behalf of former Sen. David Purdue earlier this week, Trump insisted that Kemp will thwart Republicans in their efforts to restore Republican dominance in a state that has seen great success for Democrats in 2020.
“One of the problems is also that if Brian Kemp comes in, I think it will be very, very difficult for Herschel Walker to win,” the former president said. “Because I don’t believe Republicans will go out and vote for Brian Camp. And if they don’t vote for Brian Camp, they won’t be able to vote for Herschel Walker.”
On May 24, Kemp will run in the primary for Republican governor against Perdue – who lost his candidacy for re-election to now-Democratic Sen. John Osof in the Senate runoff in 2021 and received Trump’s approval late last year. – while Walker is expected to come up with an easy nomination as the party’s candidate to face incumbent Democratic Senator Rafael Warnock.
However, Trump believes that Walker – a former football honors officer at the University of Georgia and an NFL star – will be burdened by some mass murmurs about the refusal of Kemp to cancel the results of the presidential election in Peach, which saw the current president Joe Biden carries the longtime conservative bastion against Trump.
Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Rafensperger has rejected Trump’s repeated requests to “find” additional votes to undo Biden’s victory. And the former president continues to believe that Kemp did not take due care to maintain the integrity of the country’s elections, although there is no evidence of widespread fraud after several counts.
Perdue – who currently lags behind Kemp in most major polls, despite Trump’s approval – echoed Trump’s beliefs about the two races during the televised rally.
“If we want this Senate race, we have to win this gubernatorial race,” the former senator said, stressing the importance of running in Georgia as Republicans seek to regain the Senate majority they lost last year while repelling the challenge. probably Democratic nominee for governor Stacy Abrams, who lost by a hair to Kemp in 2018.
During the event, Trump called Kemp a “really terrible RINO,” or just a Republican, a humiliation that is usually reserved for party members who are not considered true conservatives. The former president also accused Kemp of not inspiring much of the Republican’s turnout, a problem that devastated Republicans during the 2021 Senate run-off that saw Purdue and the then-Sen. Kelly Loffler lost her seat to Democrats after a difference in enthusiasm in the weeks leading up to the January election.
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