Donald Trump suffered what is likely his toughest electoral defeat this Tuesday since losing the 2020 presidential election, to the governor of Georgia, who refused to cheat to reverse the election result. Trump wanted revenge, but failed.
Trump has launched a campaign of harassment and crackdown on Brian Kemp, the current governor, who is trying to reverse his position in November’s election. He has said that he is a “total and complete disaster,” that he is a coward, that he lost the Georgia presidential election (the first Republican loss since 1992) and that he also lost the Senate to the Republicans.
To defeat Kemp, the former president backed former Senator David Perdue, funded him with millions of his own funds, and repeatedly attempted to discredit Kemp. The governor avoided a direct clash but did not shrink from the fight. Through the visibility of his position, he has taken steps to please his constituency, has shown that his program is far-right, and has garnered the support of many other positions in the Republican Party that believe they insist on all along Hoax 2020 election theft is far less effective than talking about inflation, the economy, security, or abortion.
Trump’s defeat was painful, but the Republican Party has not abandoned Trumpism. On the one hand, many of the former president’s candidates won the primaries this Tuesday. Among them Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG), a conspiracy theorist who won victory in her district, to try to reconfirm her seat in the House of Representatives. Or Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was White House spokeswoman with Trump and won the primary for the governorship of Arkansas. Or former soccer player Herschel Walker, who will run for Georgia Senator.
On the flip side, even many non-Trump-backed candidates who won endorse the bulk of the former president’s political messages, so there’s no radical cut. Rather, it is about continuing to insist on the hoax of the stolen 2020 election or, as an increasing segment of the party seems to want, it’s time to turn the tide.
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