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Remember when conservatives and the Beltway press treated Georgia’s Jimmy Carter as a boorish hick for wearing sweaters around the White House? And for serving cold fast food to the national college football champions? And for kissing the Russian president’s ass? Wait, those last two were former President Trump, the man who would be kingmaker, the suspected election conspirator and coup plotter.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has even less reason to fear filing an indictment against Trump this morning. Trump’s revenge picks for governor and secretary of state went down in flames in Georgia’s Tuesday Republican primary.
Georgia’s incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp trounced Trump-endorsed David Perdue, the former senator, by over 50 points in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Kandiss Taylor, bane of Satan, drew under four percent of the vote.
Incumbent Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defeated Congressman Jody Hice, also endorsed by Trump, by 19 points. Trump vowed revenge against Kemp and Raffensperger for not caving to his demand that they reverse his 2020 presidential loss in Georgia.
“We’re going to go fucking scorched-earth,” Kemp adviser Jay Walker told a group of top donors and advisers earlier this year, reports Politico. “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.” Meaning Perdue, who gasped his last on Tuesday.
Trump’s only primary “win” was U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker. The former football star this fall will challenge incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat. Real Clear Politics ranks the fall contest a toss-up. Perhaps Trump will invite Walker to Mar-a-Lago for some congratulatory Chicken McNuggets.
Body-armor-wearing Rep. Mo Brooks of Jan. 6 “taking down names and kicking ass” fame will face a runoff in Alabama’s Republican U.S. Senate primary. Trump withdrew his early Brooks endorsement in the race to replace Sen. Richard Shelby after seeing Brooks’ floundering poll numbers. Brooks had stepped away from promoting Trump’s “stolen election” grievance.
Brooks fell short of the needed 50 percent-plus-one needed to win outright on Tuesday. Katie Britt, a former top aide to Shelby, won 45 percent of the vote, besting Brooks by over 16 points.
Brooks had continued to run under the banner of “MAGA Mo,” referencing Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan. In his Tuesday night speech, Brooks called himself the “America First, MAGA candidate” in the race, and said he has a proven record on issues like border security and opposition to abortion.
Good luck with that.
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