EXCLUSIVE — Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp insists “the road to the White House is going to run through Georgia.”
And Kemp, the favored two-term conservative governor of the essential southeastern battleground state, emphasised in an unique nationwide interview with Fox Information Digital “there’s no path for former President Trump to win, or any Republican … to get to 270 (electoral votes) without Georgia.”
Kemp, interviewed Tuesday on the eve of Vice President Kamala Harris’ two-day bus swing via Georgia, stated his state “should be one that we win if we have all the mechanics that we need. And I’m working hard to help provide those in a lot of ways and turn the Republican vote out.”
“It’s my belief that we cannot afford four more years of [President] Joe Biden and Kamala Harris or Kamala Harris and [Minnesota Gov.] Tim Walz, which I think would probably be worse than even Biden and Harris were,” Kemp argued.
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Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia is interviewed by Fox Information Digital June 3, 2024, in Chalmette, La. (Fox Information/Paul Steinhauser)
The governor was interviewed a few days after Trump praised Kemp in a social media submit “for all of your help and support in Georgia, where a win is so important to the success of our Party and, most importantly, our Country.”
“I look forward to working with you, your team, and all of my friends in Georgia to help MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” the Republican presidential nominee added.
The feedback from Trump have been a significant change of tune in terms of Georgia’s governor.
For 2 years after his 2020 election defeat to President Biden, which included a razor-thin loss in Georgia, Trump attacked Kemp for failing to overturn the election ends in his state.
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Trump toned down the criticism in 2022, after Kemp crushed Trump-backed former Sen. David Perdue within the state’s GOP gubernatorial main.
However earlier this month, Trump went on a 10-minute tirade in opposition to Kemp at a rally in Atlanta simply blocks from the Georgia Capitol. Trump blamed the governor not just for failing to overturn the 2020 vote depend, but in addition for not stopping a county prosecutor from indicting the previous president for his makes an attempt to reverse the outcomes.
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance of Ohio (left) greets former President Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, throughout a marketing campaign rally at Georgia State College in Atlanta Aug. 3, 2024. (AP Photograph/John Bazemore)
“He’s a bad guy. He’s a disloyal guy. And he’s a very average governor,” Trump stated. “Little Brian. Little Brian Kemp. Bad guy.”
Kemp informed Fox Information, “I’m not sure exactly what happened going into the rally. I’ve seen a lot of different stories and people’s explanations of what happened.”
“To me, that was a small distraction that’s in the past,” Kemp added.
And Kemp stated Republicans “want to remain centered on the long run. … We should be telling individuals why they need to vote for us, what we’re going to do to make issues higher than they’re proper now. And there’s a bunch of points that I believe you possibly can distinction Kamala Harris and her file.
“To me, that’s what we need to stay focused on. Not some dustup from two or three weeks ago.”
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Requested about Trump’s reversal final Thursday, Kemp stated, “You have to ask him those questions. I’ve been consistent for really the last couple of years that I was going to support the ticket, whoever our nominee was, in Georgia. That’s exactly what I’m doing. What I have been doing.”
However Trump’s assertion got here moments after Kemp appeared on Fox Information Channel and reiterated to host Sean Hannity that “we need to send Donald Trump back to the White House.”
Requested Tuesday if he and Trump had linked since final week, Kemp stated, “I haven’t talked to him.”
“I’ve talked to a lot of other folks, and I think everybody has a good understanding of where everybody is and understands my position has not changed,” Kemp stated. “I have been supporting him and the whole ticket in Georgia, and I’m still doing that and will continue to do that through November.”
Republican strategists agree that to recapture Georgia, Trump will want help from Kemp’s well-oiled and funded political machine to prove GOP voters.
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Kemp stated he’s “working hard” to “turn the Republican vote out and make sure that we win this state in November.”
“How that looks and how that goes will really be up to kind of how things play out and what states are in play and who’s going where and when,” Kemp added.
“I’ve got other responsibilities in my duties with the Republican Governors Association, traveling around the country helping to raise money to win North Carolina and hold New Hampshire in our column and also helping our legislative races here.”
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (proper) joins fellow GOP governors at a Republican Governors Affiliation information convention at an oil refinery in Chalmette, La., June 3, 2024 (Fox Information/Paul Steinhauser)
Kemp additionally acknowledged that he’s requested for authorized recommendation from the state legal professional basic on whether or not he can take away from the state election board three conservative members on the five-person panel who championed and handed a controversial set of latest guidelines that mandate additional necessities for county election boards to certify their outcomes.
“We’ve asked the attorney general for an opinion on that on whether this would be an official complaint, if you will, and I’m waiting to hear back. So, I really wouldn’t be able to comment too much on that since we’re asking for legal advice,” Kemp informed Fox Information.
Trump, who has been charged in Fulton County, Georgia, for election interference, praised the three members for pushing for the brand new guidelines and known as them “pit bulls fighting for honesty, transparency and victory.”
Georgia Democrats name the brand new guidelines a “concerted effort to subvert democracy” and have challenged them, arguing they might delay election certification and spark main disputes.
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