Georgia
Trump Looks to Settle Scores in Georgia Primary
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A high-profile Senate race that would decide management of the chamber. A GOP governor at odds with the nationwide chief of his occasion. A significant take a look at of the political route of a state that has gone from being comfortably crimson to nationally watched battleground.
It is 2020 once more for Georgia voters, who go to the polls Tuesday to appoint candidates for governor, Senate, secretary of state and congressional seats. However there may be a lot extra on the poll, as former President Donald Trump seeks to settle scores with officers who refused to endorse his claims of a stolen 2020 election in Georgia.
“It is all taking place directly right here. We are the No. 1 battleground. I believe we’re the brand new middle of the political universe,” says Brian Robinson, a longtime GOP political operative within the Peach State.
“We have got this distinctive state of affairs the place the individuals on our ballots are identified nationwide. It’s totally uncommon for state figures” in Georgia, the place elections have been primarily of native concern earlier than 2020, he says.
Regardless of warnings from Democrats that stricter voting legal guidelines would suppress the vote, turnout in early voting has already damaged 2020 data, an indication of the essential significance of Georgia’s elections this 12 months.
For Trump, Georgia is the final word grudge match, with GOP incumbents Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on the first day poll.
Ratffensperger refused Trump’s request to “discover” sufficient votes to reverse the Republican president’s loss in Georgia in 2020, whereas Kemp rejected Trump’s request that the governor refuse to certify the outcomes and convene a particular session of the state legislature to call a brand new slate of GOP electors.
Trump recruited former Sen. David Perdue to problem Kemp for the Republican nomination for governor and has endorsed GOP Rep. Jody Hice in his race to unseat Raffensperger within the major.
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However regardless of Trump’s assist, polls present Kemp poised for an enormous win on Tuesday. Raffensperger and Hice are in an in depth race, polls present, and political analysts anticipate they’re headed for a runoff. In Georgia, if no candidate will get greater than 50% of the vote, the highest two vote-getters face off in a runoff election.
“Perdue’s marketing campaign seems to be imploding,” whereas Hice – who was properly forward of Raffensperger in April – is now trailing the incumbent secretary of state in polls, mentioned Charles Bullock, a College of Georgia political science professor. For Trump, “my guess is it is not going to be a very good day for him,” Bullock provides.
Removed from boosting Hice’s candidacy, Trump’s endorsement within the race of his 2020 Georgia nemesis has been accompanied by a Raffensperger surge, Robinson notes.
“He is gone from being crushed to being aggressive,” Robinson says. Polls present a big share of undecided voters, and it is unclear how these votes will lastly go.
Trump’s endorsed candidate for the GOP nomination for Senate, former NFL star Herschel Walker, is predicted to coast to victory Tuesday and can doubtless face Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock in November. Warnock’s runoff win in opposition to GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler in 2021 gave Democrats majority management of the Senate – a standing that’s endangered this fall.
Walker – a former College of Georgia soccer participant and Heisman Trophy winner – has large title recognition in Georgia and “did not want Trump’s endorsement” to advance his marketing campaign, says Martha Zoller, a conservative radio discuss present host and former GOP candidate for Congress.
“Trump will take credit score for it, however he did not want Trump’s endorsement” within the crowded area for the GOP nomination for Senate, Zoller provides.
Trump has had a combined report along with his 2022 endorsees this election season, serving to to spur J.D. Vance to an upstart victory within the Republican major for Senate in Ohio, however seeing his candidates lose to institution Republican candidates for governor in Idaho and Nebraska. His endorsee in Pennsylvania’s race for Senate, Mehmet Oz, is main David McCormick by a hair. A recount is predicted.
Georgia is extra private for Trump, since each Kemp and Raffensperger straight rebuked his efforts to overturn the 2020 election there.
However Kemp has been very profitable in touting his personal conservative bona fides, specialists say, undercutting Trump’s argument that Kemp will not be a loyal Republican.
The governor signed laws for an open-carry gun legislation, a severely restrictive abortion legislation, and a measure permitting faculties to ban transgender college students from competing within the gendered staff of their alternative, whereas additionally banning the instructing of “divisive ideas” about race in public faculties. That has made him common with the GOP base.
“Something you’ll be able to consider as a scorching button, he delivered,” Robinson says.
Ought to Kemp win, he’s headed to a different face-off with Stacy Abrams, a voting rights activist and former Democratic minority chief of the Georgia Home of Representatives who’s uncontested for the Democratic nomination for governor Tuesday.
Kemp barely eked out a victory in opposition to Abrams in 2018, and Democrats hope that demographic modifications in Georgia will assist put her excessive this 12 months
Raffensperger, in the meantime, has underscored his personal ultra-conservative credentials, together with his profitable effort to tighten voting guidelines in Georgia. Raffensperger was an early supporter when Trump ran for president within the 2016 election.
Trump has dialed down his public marketing campaign for Perdue. Monday night, the previous president is doing a tele-rally for the trailing candidate. In the meantime, Trump’s vp, Mike Pence, will seem Monday night at a rally with Kemp, a daring rebuke of Trump and an indication that Pence sees Kemp, and never Perdue, as a helpful ally ought to Pence certainly search the presidency in 2024.
“That is going to be a really large take a look at of Trump’s endorsement” energy, Zoller says. Trump’s stamp of approval is “much less vital now than it was three months in the past, and can be even much less vital three months from now.”
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Georgia
Andy Beshear to headline campaign event for Kamala Harris in Georgia Sunday
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ATLANTA, Ga. (WAVE) – Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear will be speaking at a campaign event for Vice President Kalama Harris in the battleground state of Georgia on Sunday.
On Thursday, WAVE News confirmed Beshear is officially being vetted by the Harris campaign as a possible running mate in Harris’ presidential run.
Eric Hyers, a campaign strategist for Andy Beshear, confirmed to WAVE News that Beshear will be attending one of the Democratic Party of Georgia’s “Weekend of Action” events to support Harris’ campaign. He will be speaking at the opening of Harris’ Forsyth County campaign office, according to Melissa Blink, Congressional District Chair for the Democratic Party of Georgia. The event begins at 11 a.m.
Blink told WAVE News Beshear is the only potential vice presidential picks who will be attending the event in Forsyth County. Several other local and congressional Democratic candidates will also be speaking.
The campaign appearance follows Beshear’s remarks during a Team Kentucky press conference earlier in the week, where Beshear said he was “honored to be considered” among possible VP picks. Beshear added, “I’ll do everything I can between now and Election Day to elect Kamala Harris as the next President of the United States of America.”
Harris is expected to move up the ticket as the Democratic nominee during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August. This comes after President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign on July 21.
Georgia is considered a battleground state. In the 2020 election, about 65% of Forsyth County voted for then-President Donald Trump. However, President Joe Biden won the state by 0.2% of the vote in 2020 and, ultimately, the presidency. Biden flipped the seat from 2016, when Trump won Georgia with just under 51% of the vote. Before 2020, Georgia had a 20-year streak of voting Republican in presidential elections.
Speaking at the Forsyth County event comes just one day after Beshear headlines Iowa Democrat’s Liberty and Justice event, which he was set to speak at months before the vetting process began for him being a possible VP pick. He will deliver remarks in Iowa at 6 p.m. Saturday.
Our sister station in Iowa reports that event is now sold out.
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Jontavius Wyman Commits to Georgia
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Jontavius Wyman, a 2026 defensive back, has announced his commitment to the Georgia Bulldogs.
The Georgia Bulldogs have been reeling in commitments on the trail and players are starting to stack up for the 2025 recruiting class. However, it’s never too early to start getting the next year’s class into shape and the Bulldogs just added a player to their 2026 recruiting class. Defensive back Jontavius Wyman has announced his commitment to Georgia.
Wyman out of Jonesboro High School in the state of Georgia is rated as the 154th-best player in the country, 12th-best defensive back and the 19th-best player in the state of Georgia for the 2026 class, according to 247 sports composite rankings. Wyman received an offer from Georgia earlier this year along with a long list of other power four programs. He now joins quarterback Jared Curtis as the only two commitments in the class.
Curtis committed to Georgia back in March of this year. He is rated as a five-star prospect, the eighth-best player in the country and the top-rated quarterback for the 2026 recruiting class. The Bulldogs still have a long way to go before the 2026 recruiting class is official, but they are off to a strong start with the early additions of Wyman and Curtis.
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Motorcyclist back in Georgia, awake
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A former Paulding County deputy’s family had asked for help to get him back home after a motorcycle crash in Florida that nearly killed him. Thirty-seven-year-old Ryan Brannan is back in Georgia and is awake again.
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