Posted on 11/09/2022 7:29:42 AM PST by karpov
Brian Kemp is a winner. Though his margin of victory was large, his win was not inevitable.
Donald Trump made it a mission to defeat Kemp after he refused to play along with Trump’s stolen-election nonsense in 2020. He endorsed David Perdue, the former Georgia senator, in the Republican primary.
Going up against the former president, who remains the most prominent personality in the Republican Party, was no small task. But Kemp approached his reelection campaign intentionally and with considerable skill.
First step: Defeat Perdue. Already a known quantity statewide, Perdue could have defeated Kemp. Many other Republicans who faced the threat of running against a Trump-endorsed candidate in the primaries essentially conceded the race before it began or retired from politics altogether.
Not Kemp.
He was the incumbent governor. He had defeated Stacey Abrams in a close race in 2018 after being baselessly accused of “voter suppression” by the entire left wing of the country. He had assembled a solid conservative record. He cut taxes and oversaw extraordinary job growth (the state’s unemployment rate is below 3 percent). He signed a law banning abortion after a heartbeat is detected. He expanded school choice for Georgia K–12 students.
He stood up to the entire national media on Covid policy. When other governors were locking down and contemplating Covid passports, he was the first to let businesses and churches reopen and pushed to reopen schools. The Atlantic hyperventilated about “Georgia’s experiment in human sacrifice.” Georgia’s Covid death rate is middle-of-the-pack, nearly identical to New York and lower than New Jersey and Michigan, whose Democratic governors were objects of adoration for Kemp’s critics.
He stood up to the entire national media, corporate America, and the Democratic Party on Georgia’s voting law. “Easy to vote and hard to cheat” was his line
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““What has Kemp done except enable and defend the Big Cheat?”
Maybe because he figured out how to cheat in Georgia?”
There.
You said it.
Exactly what I was thinking.
It would be kinda amusing if Abrams claims “cheating” again...and was correct both times.
Get over 2020 already. Trump lost by defeating himself. The GOP lost both senate seats because people sat at home during the runoff. Walker is the only Republican statewide who didn’t have an easy win yesterday (Kemp’s ground game mattered). He’s headed to a runoff and will likely lose as Republicans again stay home. He’s Trump’s candidate. I’ll do my part to get Warnock out but will others?
I suspect Kemp may have ambitions after his victory speech but I don’t know if he’s aiming at Ossoff’s senate seat or something else. He’s not as confrontational as DeSantis.
“Kemp will campaign with Walker, that will help.”
For some reason that does not reassure me—one bit.
;-)
Deifying zero-integrity RINOs.
You need to spend some time number crunching the 2020 numbers.
The Democratic turnout was insanely impossible.
Look at it in all the key states and precincts and it will be obvious to you.
That and hubris......also sometimes it’s just better to just STHU once in a while. 😏
Kemp didn’t even know covid was easily transmissible and had terrible advice early on. We didn’t lock down and there were probably preventable deaths because Georgians didn’t want to mask up. We probably had “excess deaths” but that was Georgians being Georgians. Kemp seemed a bit aggressive reopening the state but he was panicking over the economy. At this point it doesn’t matter, the state rebounded for the most part. But he isn’t as colorful as our neighbor to the south so gets little credit. Trump is letting his ego destroy his legacy and drag the movement down. He needs to step aside.
“The Democratic turnout was insanely impossible”
When there’s more votes than voters it’s more than insane......it’s plain ol’ criminal......and nothing happened.
Thanks for the reminder.
Trump, warts & all, has done more to energize the GOP than anyone since Reagan.
The factors controlling these election outcomes have nothing to do with him.
Please pass it on…thank you.
Nothing on our side could stop last night
Not trump or GOPe or neocons
It’s demographics and the liberalization of every generations from boomers down
Boomers are dying off in volume
Non white minorities are burgeoning
This the result
If whites outside the south voted like we do this wouldn’t happen
But it’s culture there
43-45% of whites in America are libs
Toss in 2/3 to 4/5 of minorities vote left
It’s insurmountable I fear
Since 2016 a ton of right voting white boomers died
And that’s only going to accelerate
Meanwhile dem voting minorities breed like rabbits
We warned folks here 20 years ago
Some of us were zotted for our Efforts
Where’s that red wave in the Rio Grande valley
Did I miss it?
Kemp and Rattenspewer BREEZE back into office - while Herschel Walker, Trump's guy, struggles.
TOTALLY not an engineered "outcome".
Anyone who believes this is a dupe.
Not sure what’s destroying his legacy. Thr cluster of crap that has happened since he’s been gone enhances his legacy. I understand Trump’s anger regarding the steal and the fact that Kemp turned a blind eye and pretended nothing happened. The Repukes are in control of Georgia and they are going to keep throwing the Senate to the Rats until they get what they want.
I think much of what you say is true. I used to live in Georgia and liked Brian Kemp. However, I will always believe that his appointing Kelly Loeffler as US Senator instead of the obvious choice of Doug Collins opened the door for the Democrats and ultimately cost us control of the Senate.
Some of us were zotted for our Efforts
I remember that dust-up, which I stayed clear of at the time.
You were right, of course.
“Kemp will campaign with Walker, that will help.”
Every single Republican in Georgia must vote in the runoff. This time everyone realizes that the balance in the Senate depends on Georgia.
Reportedly exit polls showed that 74% of Americans think that the country is heading in the wrong direction. I did not hear the reasons why the people thought it was heading in the wrong direction. Some people believe that is heading in the wrong direction because abortion is supposedly being outlawed. They did not vote for Republicans.
I love Trump but I can’t spin this election as anything but a defeat for him.
But I’ll listen if you want to try.
Believe what you want. Trump wasn’t on anybody’s ballot though.
As effective as Gov Kemp has been in many aspects, he is stubbornly dedicated to ballot drop boxes and his beloved Dominion machines. It is my experience that when a man does his enemy's bidding, somebody's got him by the short hairs. Somebody has something on Brian Kemp.
By the way, did anyone else find it curious that Stacey Abrams was uncharacteristically gracious towards Kemp in her prompt concession speech last night?
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