Opinion: TFG delivers Georgia Democrats a holiday gift
How much damage can one man do to his own political party? For a test case, let's look at Georgia. This state seemed reliably Republican until 2020, when then-President Donald Trump not only lost his bid for re-election but also helped both incumbent Republican senators lose their elections, which in turn cost his party control of the US Senate.
Now Trump is doing it again. And you almost feel sorry for the Georgia GOP.
According to the Washington Post, Trump successfully pressured one of the GOP senators defeated in 2020, David Perdue, to challenge an incumbent fellow Republican, Gov. Brian Kemp, for the nomination in next year's election. No Republican governor has ever lost reelection since Georgia began allowing governors to run for consecutive terms. That could now potentially change.
Trump is doing a huge favor for Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who Kemp beat by a razor-thin margin in 2018. Between now and the primary in May, Democrats will make their case to voters, while Republicans will likely spend millions attacking one another.
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