He left the Democratic Party for a Trump endorsement, now watch Vernon Jones storm out of GOP event
Former Georgia state representative Vernon Jones went from being a moderate Democrat to a MAGA-loving Republican seemingly overnight; he even announced his change of parties on Jan. 6, 2021. Yes, the same day that the world was presented with a sight-and-sound exhibition of MAGA fascism and a failed coup detat of the U.S. government. A couple of months later, Jones made a new announcement: He would be running in the GOP primary as a challenger to Georgias governor Brian Kemp.
Jones' career has long been a hot messincluding rape allegations, accusations of bullying, as well as campaign contribution violations. This led to Jones jumping ship on his gubernatorial run and turning his attention toward becoming the next representative from District 10, an area of Georgia in which he does not live.
But Jones has one thing going for him: his open adoration of Donald Trump. In fact, Jones has tried to brand himself the Black Donald Trump. The political calculation seems to be that, with his spotty past, his one chance at gaining power is to act as the tip of the spear for Trumps GOP in Georgia. And if he can ride Trumps popularity in District 10, an area that Trump carried with 74% of the vote in 2020, he might win. Shortly after turning his attention away from the GOP gubernatorial race, Donald Trump gave one of his patented poorly lit video-taped endorsements for Jones.
(Snip)
On Saturday night, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Greg Bluestein reported that Mr. Jones was super unhappy emoji face about what he called GOP poli-tricks. The tricks were, according to Jones, a last-minute switcheroo of speaking positions between himself and GOP candidate for District 10, Mike Collins, at a Jackson County event. Mikey Collins, you might remember, is the Washington outsider whose dad, Mac Collins, was in Georgias Senate and a Georgias Congressperson for about 16 years. Hes the silly-billy who released a campaign video over the summer in which he explodedwith an assault riflea pile of papers that read Nancy Pelosis Plan for America, and another bearing the term RINO.
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/7/2084439/-Trump-endorsed-House-candidate-storms-out-of-GOP-event-accusing-fellow-Republicans-of-poli-tricks
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Karadeniz
(22,461 posts)wnylib
(21,312 posts)Let him stay there.
brush
(53,735 posts)Switching from Dem to repug on Jan. 6 was bad but how was he to know what would kick off that say.
He does know now though that trump has praised and call Putin a genius, a genius? A genius who has proven himself to be cruel invader bombing and killing hundreds of civilians because his army wasn't able to take over an innocent neignbor fast enough for him.
Jones wanted trump's endorsement and got but it really doesn't matter now as trump's political career, tied to a cruel invader, is over, and so probably is Vernon Jones'.
Bad timing again.
Skittles
(153,111 posts)the poor guy is being mistreated by the repukes he covets?
OAITW r.2.0
(24,286 posts)They come in all shapes and sizes, colors, and gender. It's all about the Benjamins.