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The Liz Cheney effect: Brian Kemp gets cold feet over testifying against Trump
Msn.com ^ | 8/18/22 | Amanda Marcotte

Posted on 08/18/2022 4:54:19 PM PDT by cotton1706

Tuesday night, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming lost the Republican primary by 37 points to Harriet Hageman. Cheney has drawn relentless fire from Donald Trump for being one of two Republicans on the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. Hageman, on the other hand, ran on a platform of advocating Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election and denouncing efforts to investigate the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Late Tuesday, Trump gloated about Cheney's loss, posting that "Cheney should be ashamed of herself" for standing up against Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The very next day, Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, filed a 121-page motion asking a judge to reject a subpoena to testify in a case investigating Trump's efforts to steal the state's electoral votes from President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

On the surface, these two events may seem unrelated. The timing, however, is likely not a coincidence.

Kemp has gained an undeserved reputation as a "moderate" since Trump's failed coup efforts in 2020, largely because he refused to void out Biden's win in Georgia in 2020 and declare Trump the winner instead. But Kemp's resistance to Trump's anti-democracy efforts has been reluctant, at best.

Cheney's primary defeat was expected, but there can be no doubt that the size of it sent a chilling message to the rest of the party: Stand by Trump or else. With his refusal to testify against Trump, it seems Kemp got the message loud and clear.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: amandamarcotte; briankemp; cheney; chuckfeney; elections; electionz; electionzzz; elekchunz; fakenews; j6; jan6; jan6th; january6; kemp; lizardcheney; lizcheney; maga; nottiredofwinning; salon; tds; trump
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To: cotton1706
GA deserves Abrams after the stupid republican voters gave Rat-booger and Kemp primary victories.

I hope Rat-booger and Kemp get beat by cheat-by-mail-in ballots and drop-box fraud. It would serve them right.

GA is already lost to the RINO swamp. If Trump runs in 2024, Kemp and Rat-booger will allow the Rats to steal it just like 2020.

Let it burn. Kick all those RINOs out of power.

21 posted on 08/18/2022 5:35:50 PM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: Fledermaus

Lol. I’m not above pushing this formerly beloved nation over the cliff. Let them taste and savor the bitter fruit of their collectivist agenda. It will fail because there will never be enough citizens willing to do the hard work required.
I know it won’t take the 70 years the USSR required for course correction..


22 posted on 08/18/2022 5:39:05 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: cotton1706

Didn’t the call get released? What else does Kemp have to testify about?

At this point it’s just another show trial with no teeth.


23 posted on 08/18/2022 5:41:20 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: HandBasketHell
If Trump runs in 2024, Kemp and Rat-booger will allow the Rats to steal it just like 2020.

Yes - if those two pieces of RINO garbage win in 2022, they'll hand the state to the Democrats in 2024.

24 posted on 08/18/2022 5:46:32 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: ifinnegan

GA is full of people still asleep. I will never vote for Kemp. If the witch wins, I will move to Florida.


25 posted on 08/18/2022 5:53:06 PM PDT by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!S)
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To: cotton1706; All

Get rid of this guy. If he wins he will just be a Romney, a thorn. Win the legislative branch and get rid of this guy. You can kneecap a Govenor Abrams with a strong mandate in the legislature.


26 posted on 08/18/2022 5:54:12 PM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: kiryandil

“Amanda Marie Marcotte is an American blogger and journalist who writes on feminism and politics from a liberal perspective. Marcotte has written for several online publications, including Slate, The Guardian, and Salon, where she is currently senior politics writer.”

So, she’s a professional bullsh*t artist.


27 posted on 08/18/2022 5:56:25 PM PDT by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: In_Iowa_not_from

https://freerepublic.com/tag/amandamarcotte/index


28 posted on 08/18/2022 5:56:58 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: cotton1706
... he refused to void out Biden's win in Georgia in 2020 and declare Trump the winner instead.

My goodness. Trump must have grabbed the wheel, comadered the SUV to Kemp's house and demanded that Kemp "void out" the election and "declare Trump the winner".

Because that's what Trump was asking, right?

Geez, these reporters are so clueless.

29 posted on 08/18/2022 6:01:03 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Fledermaus

GA does NOT deserve Abrams. That’s ridiculous.


30 posted on 08/18/2022 6:02:09 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Ge0ffrey
see post #21
31 posted on 08/18/2022 6:28:13 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Ge0ffrey

After seeing the video of the State Farm center after they sent the observers home, pulling ballots out from under covered tables and running them multiple times and the GOP officials saying that everything was fine tells me that they do indeed deserve Abrams.


32 posted on 08/18/2022 6:46:31 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: cotton1706
Kemp has gained an undeserved reputation as a "moderate"

It sure is undeserved. He is no moderate. He is a deepstate RINO bottomfeeder. And he is an idiot if he didn't see this coming. No sane person could have believed Lizzie was going to survive her Trump tantrum. And at her age too.

33 posted on 08/18/2022 6:47:05 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Ge0ffrey

GA deserves whatever it gets.


34 posted on 08/18/2022 6:50:13 PM PDT by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: Theophilous Meatyard III

Besides, maybe they feel comfortable with their heads in their butts.


35 posted on 08/18/2022 6:51:42 PM PDT by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: Theophilous Meatyard III

Excuse me, “up” their butts.


36 posted on 08/18/2022 6:53:17 PM PDT by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: NWFree

Msn.com=leftist. The new Yahoo.


37 posted on 08/18/2022 6:56:09 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: cotton1706
Stand by Trump or else.

Disconnect.
Save Wyoming Rally with President Trump We're Fed Up!

It's neither the man nor the woman.
It's the words they say and the ideas they represent.

38 posted on 08/18/2022 7:52:44 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: cotton1706

Kemp is bought and paid for by Microsoft, Facebook, Hollywood, Soros and Rivian

Amazing that so many people voted for him.

Anyone can say anything they want about Perdue. Squish. Milquetoast. GOPe. Whatever. Don’t care.

He isn’t/wasn’t bought and paid for by a collective of people that are actively and openly supporting is opponent

But covid.


39 posted on 08/18/2022 8:27:07 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Fledermaus; ifinnegan

Here’s an interesting thing:

Kemp and Abrams support the same exact things.

Hollywood, Soros and Rivian, the Microsoft campus in NW Atlanta.

But….Georgia has a solid Republican State Congress, for now.

That Congress will do Kemps bidding no matter how disastrous the policy. They’ll rubber stamp anything he wants even if they have it.

Abrams wins, she’s fighting them tooth and nail every day. And gets little to nothing done.

She’s against guns. Good luck passing any gun control legislation in a Georgia.


40 posted on 08/18/2022 8:31:07 PM PDT by qaz123
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