Trump's Anger Could Cost Republicans Control Of Georgia

Donald Trump's lingering anger at Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has a lot of Republicans worried that the former president could fracture the GOP in the state ahead of next year's gubernatorial election. Trump hasn't been able to find anyone to run against Kemp just yet, but former Senator David Perdue's name is one that has been floated. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains how Trump's anger could end up costing the GOP control of the state, if the circumstances are just right.

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Every couple of days, there's a new story that comes out about Republicans freaking out about this regarding Trump. They're panicking about this regarding Trump. And of course, here's another story about Republicans starting to get scared because of something stupid Donald Trump is doing. And that stupid thing is he's continuing to tack, to attack, George's incumbent Republican governor Brian Kemp. Brian Kemp is up for reelection next year. Donald Trump keeps attacking him because he's off that Kemp did not overturn Georgia's election results in 2020 something that Kemp couldn't do and glad he didn't do. But Trump's still mad. So he's still attacking him and Republicans now think that this could cause a primary challenger to emerge that Donald Trump would likely endorse and the name being floated right now is former Georgia Senator David Perdue. His staff said he's going to make an announcement within the next month or so.

So maybe Perdue is, maybe Perdue isn't. Perdue would definitely get Donald Trump's endorsement and Republicans are afraid because what that's going to do is split the vote. But of course it splits the vote in the primary. However, this is where their fear comes in. Donald Trump's going to go out there, campaign furiously for David Perdue being super anti Brian Kemp. Well, Brian Kemp still has a pretty good approval among Republicans in the state of Georgia. Even the pro Trump Republicans say, I actually, I like Kemp. But if Trump goes out there, bloodies Kemp up enough to where his supporters don't support him anymore and then Kemp still wins the primary, you're going to have a lot of Republicans sit out that race and the Democrats are gonna cruise to victory. Same thing the other way. If Donald Trump goes out there and off normal Republicans who like Kemp and then David Perdue wins, the normal Republicans may sit it out and a Democrat may take that gubernatorial seat. Honestly, I don't care which one of those scenarios happens just so long as one of them happens because that's what deserves to happen. That governorship in the state of Georgia right now should belong to Stacey Abrams.

And had it not been for Brian Kemp, who was secretary of the state, of state, at the time who purged more than a hundred thousand people from the voting roles, which easily, by the way, made up the difference in votes between the two, Stacey Abrams likely would have won the whole thing. And Stacey Abrams has been doing some phenomenal work. She is one of the few people that I have just unabashed praise for because of everything she has done. The get out the vote drives, the registering people to vote drives, hell, paying off people's medical debts. Her group recently paid off $212 million in other people's medical debts. Yeah. Stacey Abrams is showing Democrats how to, how to be, how to be a good person. I don't know if she's running Georgia Governor again, but if she does, I hope she wins. I would absolutely wholeheartedly support Stacey Abrams running for governor again. I like what she has done in the four years since she had the election taken from her and I think she would be a good governor. And if Donald Trump goes out there and continues sticking his nose in this race, her chances of winning are only going to go up.