She is a reaction to a large number of usual GOP GA women voters stupidly voting based on the candidate’s personal plumbing, not their wacko political agenda, in 2016 and 2018.
I was pleased with her acceptance speech ......... did anyone, with a sane mind, think she would come out and tout her RINO/Chamber of Commerce allegiance?
So I am going to withhold judgement for now and she what she does with her chance. We cannot do anything about her now until Nov 2020 ....
after going back and forth with someone the other day, you’re right about this. There’s a chance that she had a sit down with the Governor and they had a “talk”. That “talk” consisting of, she isn’t on the farm in Illinois anymore and she isn’t just representing Buckhead, the onion farmers in South Georgia, all the regulars at Bones and Chops, the members of Ansley Golf Club or the Piedmont Driving Club, John Weiland, Pulte Homes, Ryland Homes or Beazer Construction.
She is now representing the entire state, that showed up to put Kemp in the Governors office against a rapidly growing Democratic base.
Sure would be nice if the state adopted an “Electoral College” type of voting for the state offices. The Atlanta metro area is too Blue for comfort.
Here is one article about Georgia GOP problems in 2016 and 2018:
The GOP GA State wide candidates in 2016 got about 60,000 more votes then Trump
In 2018 Abrams came within 55,000 votes of winning.
Break down of the results showed suburban women, normally a safe GOP vote simply did not vote for Trump or Kemp.
the Republican National Committee obviously looked at this trend and freaked. I think they are over reacting.
I think the Dems were successful in 2016 and 2018 at hyping the whole “1st women to be...” propaganda tactic. The Dems spent millions here pushing the “1st woman..” line specifically targeted to women voters via mailing and selective advertising.
She put some serious political markers down in her speech. That is not the sort of speech she can give and then go to DC and vote differently.
GA is not like some blue state 3rd world 1 party dictatorship like NY-MA-DE-CA etc. You don’t get to be “Senator for Life” in GA just because you have the party label. She going to have to earn the job.
So let see what she does with her chance. If not, there more the enough people itching to take her out in Nov 2020 “Jungle Primary”