Posted on 11/29/2019 6:40:29 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp will likely tap business executive Kelly Loeffler to the U.S. Senate despite strong criticism from his conservative base over Loffler’s affiliation with Planned Parenthood, Stacey Abrams, and establishment Republicans, according to a report released Friday.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Friday that Kemp plans to tap business executive Loeffler next week as he will attempt to appeal to Georgia suburban women despite the conservative opposition to Loeffler.
Kemp’s potential nomination of Loeffler will defy President Donald Trump, prominent conservative organizations, and Georgia’s conservative base that helped Kemp get elected to the governor’s office.
Breitbart News has reported how Loeffler has concerning ties to Democrat icon Stacey Abrams, and also that Loeffler’s basketball team, the Atlanta Dream, has promoted the abortion provider Planned Parenthood. Loeffler has also donated $750,000 to Mitt Romney’s failed 2012 presidential campaign as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars to former Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) campaigns and PACs.
The Georgia governor’s nomination of Loeffler could also spark a contentious primary fight, as House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), Trump’s favorite for the seat, told the Journal-Constitution that he is “strongly” considering a run for the Senate seat if he is not picked.
Trump has reportedly lobbied Kemp to tap Collins three times in recent weeks. Trump expressed doubt over Loeffler, who remains politically untested.
Reports that Kemp will nominate Loeffler to the U.S. Senate has engendered outcry from conservatives in the House as well as across Georgia’s Republican base.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a strong ally of Trump and supporter of his America First policies, said that Kemp is “hurting President Trump” by nominating a business executive who donated “$700k plus to Mitt Romney and nothing to Trump until she wanted in the Senate?”
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Spot on assessment of the currant situation! But-— didn’t Blogo go to prison for the selling a Senate seat?
We really need a policy that executes any convicted corrupt member of government that undermines confidence in government....D or R. There is nothing more important than truth and honest government.
I hate this headline. Breitbart continues to disappoint.
Defy Trump? WTH?
He’s not a dictator or a King.... nor does he even act like it....but some of his psychophants give all who support HIS ACTIONS, a bad name. And they hurt Trump.... by treating him like a dictator.
Why can’t they just say she’s established backed?
This gives fodder for the msm and libs. Ugh.
“Will never vote for this woman..even if it means a Dem.”
Loeffler will first have to survive a so-called “jungle” special election in 2020 in which she will have both Republican and Democrat challengers. If Loeffler gets a plurality of votes in the special election, she will undoubtedly face a Republican primary challenge in 2022 and, if victorious, a Democrat in the general election. The good news for whomever is, ultimately, the Republican Senate candidate in 2022 is that the Democrats do not have a strong bench in Georgia.
She will have to face voters in 2020; such appointments are until the next election, whether a regular or a special election of 2 or 4 year-terms.
I LIVED in Newt’s district for decades. I saw and lived what happened. It wasn’t ‘suburban women.’ It was a concerted effort by Democrats and government to relocate Section 8 and other government housing denizens into the district as revenge after Newt screwed up and let something else than his brain do the thinking with Camilla and had to resign. Couple that with a concerted effort to redraw the district to include lesser affluent areas with that former district and that’s what you got - Lucy McBath.
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