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Governor Kemp’s re-election campaign reports record-breaking fundraising haul in second quarter
Heading into the 2022 election season, the re-election campaign of incumbent Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has reported raising a record-breaking $3.9 million in the second quarter of 2021.
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Jul. 3—ATLANTA — The Kemp for Governor campaign announced that, following the development of a grassroots network across all Georgia counties, the campaign raised a record-breaking $3.9 million in the second quarter of 2021 as the incumbent governor gears up for the 2022 election cycle, with $12 million total now raised for the cycle.
Donations have come from donors throughout 150 counties in Georgia.
Gov. Brian Kemp told the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee on Monday that he would include anti-crime proposals for lawmakers to consider this fall when they return for a special session to redraw electoral districts.
House Speaker David Ralston of Blue Ridge said House leaders will propose $2 million to pay for 20 new state troopers to focus on tactical response and drunken driving enforcement in Atlanta. Ralston wants another $1 million to double to the size of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's anti-gang task force and Attorney General Chris Carr's anti-human-trafficking task force.
I am just curious as a Georgia resident are there any other Republicans who WILL NOT vote for Kemp even if he is the GOP nominee? I like Kandiss Taylor but the media is ignoring her and I like Vernon Jones but even if Kemp wins the nomination I will literally skip that race next November. Same goes for Lt Gov race. I won't vote for Butch Miller.
Gov. Kemp and SoS Raffensperger again attacked, Abrams and Jones shouted out by Trump at Middle GA rally
Former President Donald Trump attacked embattled Georgia state government officials Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, attacked and then appeared to almost endorse 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race runner-up and likely 2022 Georgia gubernatorial contender Stacey Abrams before shouting out 2022 GOP gubernatorial primary participant Vernon Jones.
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Trump first attacked Stacey Abrams before calling the Georgia governor a "complete disaster on election integrity" while pushing false claims the 2020 Nov. election outcome was not legitimate.
"Having her might be better than having your existing governor," he said on Saturday at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry on Saturday night.
The politicians have had a strained relationship since the election. Trump previously lashed out at Kemp for not intervening in the election on his behalf several times, later saying "I'm ashamed that I endorsed him." He also has made calls for Kemp's resignation.
"Stacey, would you like to take his place? It's okay with me," Trump said at the Saturday rally.
The former president continued, saying Raffensperger and Kemp are "RINOs" -- or Republicans In Name Only -- and calling on the people of Georgia to vote the Republican leaders out of office.
Former President Donald Trump attacked embattled Georgia state government officials Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, attacked and then appeared to almost endorse 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race runner-up and likely 2022 Georgia gubernatorial contender Stacey Abrams before shouting out 2022 GOP gubernatorial primary participant Vernon Jones.
President Trump is right. If Kemp runs for reelection, he will LOSE to Abrams should she choose to run. Kemp barely won by 50k votes last time I bet he has lost at least that many voters because of his lack of a spine to stop the steal in Georgia. He sure won't have my vote or my wife's. I only voted for him in the runoff in 2018 and in the general he wasn't my top pick AT ALL in the primary.
President Trump is right. If Kemp runs for reelection, he will LOSE to Abrams should she choose to run. Kemp barely won by 50k votes last time I bet he has lost at least that many voters because of his lack of a spine to stop the steal in Georgia. He sure won't have my vote or my wife's. I only voted for him in the runoff in 2018 and in the general he wasn't my top pick AT ALL in the primary.
Conservatives as a whole may be very unhappy with Governor Brian Kemp because he has gotten on the wrong side of now-former President Donald Trump.
But conservatives should be strongly warned that if they intentionally withhold their support from Kemp in the 2022 general election (should Kemp win the 2022 GOP primary over challenger Vernon Jones as currently expected) allowing the Democratic challenger (who seems likely to be Stacey Abrams at this point in time) to win the general election and ascend to the Governor’s Mansion, conservatives will be seriously risking locking themselves out of power in Georgia state government and politics for an extended (possibly indefinite) period of time.
With Georgia’s rapidly changing demographic makeup (in which racial and ethnic minorities are now assumed to make up at least 50 percent, if not more, of the state’s population at this point in time after officially registering at about 49.9 percent of the population in the 2020 Census), and with Democrats apparent increasing ability to use the state’s rapidly changing demographics to their maximum advantage in statewide elections, there is no guarantee that conservatives (who have dominated Georgia state government and politics for the last 2 decades since winning the Governor’s Mansion for the first time since Reconstruction in 2002) would be able to win back the Governor’s Mansion and retake full control of Georgia government and politics if they lose the 2022 gubernatorial race.
... That’s particularly if conservatives intentionally withhold their votes from a sitting Republican governor that most likely normally would had have a good enough conservative record (on job creation, budget management, abortion, etc.) to comfortably win re-election in a state where conservative voters still dominated more than 5 years ago.
In the more conservative and more Republican Georgia of 5+ years ago, a sitting Republican governor like Kemp likely wins re-election pretty handily given his record of continued job creation and corporate relocations during a severe economic downturn and economically-chilling public health crisis, his conservative stances on social issues like abortion and his otherwise normally abundant amount of cash on hand.
Conservatives should be extremely soberly aware that refusing to vote for Brian Kemp and allowing Stacey Abrams to easily win the ‘22 general election very possibly could be akin to handing Georgia over to the Democrats on a silver platter for a generation or longer.
That’s because the demographic trends in Georgia don’t just seem to be potentially putting the GOP in a situation like what has happened in Virginia (where conservatives have lost power and slipped into a minority in a formerly deep-red state that the GOP dominated as recently as the mid-2000’s) but appear to potentially be putting the GOP in a long-term situation like California, where conservatives have lost total control of the state’s political machinery and have found themselves in a growing state and federal legislative superminority in recent years.
Georgia conservatives should be keenly aware that not supporting Brian Kemp in the ‘22 general election (or worse, supporting someone like Democrat-turned-Trump Republican Vernon Jones, with his long record of questionable ethical behavior and sleazy sideshow politics) would be playing directly into the hands of the Democrats who have been feeling increasingly confident about their chances of taking over and eventually dominating Georgia politics.
Conservatives should know that if they (intentionally) lose the Governor’s Mansion in ‘22, there will be no guarantee that they will ever return to the levels of dominance over Georgia politics that they enjoyed during the 2010’s and that they potentially could be signing themselves up for a long trip out deep into the political wilderness, or worse, out into political oblivion.
Conservatives should be warned that once Democrats get control of Georgia state government and politics, there’s will be no guarantee that the Democrats will relinquish control of it anytime soon, particularly with the beyond-astonishing, jaw-dropping, eye-popping amount of money that the Democrats appear to be prepared to spend to turn the state from red, to purple, to blue.
Conservatives as a whole may be very unhappy with Governor Brian Kemp because he has gotten on the wrong side of now-former President Donald Trump.
But conservatives should be strongly warned that if they intentionally withhold their support from Kemp in the 2022 general election (should Kemp win the 2022 GOP primary over challenger Vernon Jones as currently expected) allowing the Democratic challenger (who seems likely to be Stacey Abrams at this point in time) to win the general election and ascend to the Governor’s Mansion, conservatives will be seriously risking locking themselves out of power in Georgia state government and politics for an extended (possibly indefinite) period of time.
With Georgia’s rapidly changing demographic makeup (in which racial and ethnic minorities are now assumed to make up at least 50 percent, if not more, of the state’s population at this point in time after officially registering at about 49.9 percent of the population in the 2020 Census), and with Democrats apparent increasing ability to use the state’s rapidly changing demographics to their maximum advantage in statewide elections, there is no guarantee that conservatives (who have dominated Georgia state government and politics for the last 2 decades since winning the Governor’s Mansion for the first time since Reconstruction in 2002) would be able to win back the Governor’s Mansion and retake full control of Georgia government and politics if they lose the 2022 gubernatorial race.
... That’s particularly if conservatives intentionally withhold their votes from a sitting Republican governor that most likely normally would had have a good enough conservative record (on job creation, budget management, abortion, etc.) to comfortably win re-election in a state where conservative voters still dominated more than 5 years ago.
In the more conservative and more Republican Georgia of 5+ years ago, a sitting Republican governor like Kemp likely wins re-election pretty handily given his record of continued job creation and corporate relocations during a severe economic downturn and economically-chilling public health crisis, his conservative stances on social issues like abortion and his otherwise normally abundant amount of cash on hand.
Conservatives should be extremely soberly aware that refusing to vote for Brian Kemp and allowing Stacey Abrams to easily win the ‘22 general election very possibly could be akin to handing Georgia over to the Democrats on a silver platter for a generation or longer.
That’s because the demographic trends in Georgia don’t just seem to be potentially putting the GOP in a situation like what has happened in Virginia (where conservatives have lost power and slipped into a minority in a formerly deep-red state that the GOP dominated as recently as the mid-2000’s) but appear to potentially be putting the GOP in a long-term situation like California, where conservatives have lost total control of the state’s political machinery and have found themselves in a growing state and federal legislative superminority in recent years.
Georgia conservatives should be keenly aware that not supporting Brian Kemp in the ‘22 general election (or worse, supporting someone like Democrat-turned-Trump Republican Vernon Jones, with his long record of questionable ethical behavior and sleazy sideshow politics) would be playing directly into the hands of the Democrats who have been feeling increasingly confident about their chances of taking over and eventually dominating Georgia politics.
Conservatives should know that if they (intentionally) lose the Governor’s Mansion in ‘22, there will be no guarantee that they will ever return to the levels of dominance over Georgia politics that they enjoyed during the 2010’s and that they potentially could be signing themselves up for a long trip out deep into the political wilderness, or worse, out into political oblivion.
Conservatives should be warned that once Democrats get control of Georgia state government and politics, there’s will be no guarantee that the Democrats will relinquish control of it anytime soon, particularly with the beyond-astonishing, jaw-dropping, eye-popping amount of money that the Democrats appear to be prepared to spend to turn the state from red, to purple, to blue.
If what he wrote is true, then voting for Kemp in 2022 would be like giving a survival to a conservative government that is bound to fall... If Georgia's social and demographic changes put it on par with Virginia as he says.. .there is no reason for the conservative voter to be willing to vote in 2022, in fact it only induces the conservative voter to move out of the state as soon as possible.
If what he wrote is true, then voting for Kemp in 2022 would be like giving a survival to a conservative government that is bound to fall... If Georgia's social and demographic changes put it on par with Virginia as he says.. .there is no reason for the conservative voter to be willing to vote in 2022, in fact it only induces the conservative voter to move out of the state as soon as possible.
And North Carolina is trending the same way, but Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee would welcome them with open arms.
If what he wrote is true, then voting for Kemp in 2022 would be like giving a survival to a conservative government that is bound to fall... If Georgia's social and demographic changes put it on par with Virginia as he says.. .there is no reason for the conservative voter to be willing to vote in 2022, in fact it only induces the conservative voter to move out of the state as soon as possible.
Voting for Kemp in the ‘22 general election likely would help Georgia’s conservative political movement stay competitive and survive longer in a demographic environment that is rapidly changing in favor of the Democrats than if conservatives decide to intentionally withhold their votes from Kemp should he win his GOP primary in ‘22 as currently expected.
Withholding conservative votes from a sitting Republican governor like Kemp (who at almost any other time in Georgia’s history, particularly during the state’s time as a GOP-controlled state over the last 2 decades, likely would be on the way to a relatively easy re-election victory with his generally favorable economic record during a very challenging time) very likely decreases the chances of Republican Party competitiveness and survival over the long term.
Intentionally withholding their votes from a sitting Republican governor who otherwise normally would have a very good shot at winning re-election is like conservative voters basically volunteering to push themselves out into the political wilderness early in a state where the demographic changes are already looking unfavorable for them over the long term.
If conservative voters currently think that they are unhappy with a deeply conservative Republican governor in Brian Kemp, then conservative voters definitely are not going to be happy with a progressive Democratic governor like Stacey Abrams as the Democrats pour seemingly endless money and resources acquiring legislative majorities under the Gold Dome and likely even successfully push towards state government supermajorities over the next several cycles.
And most conservative voters will not move out of Georgia to more conservative neighboring states in the Southeastern region.
Most conservative voters will be hopelessly stuck living in a state with an increasingly progressive Democratic government where they volunteered to take themselves out of the electoral and political equation by refusing to vote for Republican officials that otherwise could attract moderate votes in statewide elections.
If conservative voters give away the Governor’s Mansion to the Democrats, they should be keenly aware of how much they will be giving away to the other side and that their chances of getting back the very competitive position that they currently enjoy in Georgia politics will not be easy and will grow increasingly difficult over time for the foreseeable future.
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Gov. Kemp and SoS Raffensperger again attacked, Abrams and Jones shouted out by Trump at Middle GA rally
