Gobernador de Georgia. Brian Kemp will defeat Donald Trump-backed challenger, former Sen. David Perdue, Proyectos de CNN — a blow to the former President’s efforts to punish Kemp for refusing to overturn the 2020 resultados de las elecciones presidenciales.
He’ll face Democrat Stacey Abrams, who ran unopposed in Tuesday’s primary, in a rematch of their 2018 raza, which Abrams narrowly lost.
Como election deniers backed by Trump vie for key posts in the Peach State — one of five states holding primaries Tuesday — the results are offering clues about the willingness of Republican voters to spurn the former President’s vanity campaigns and move on from his lies about the 2020 elección.
Georgia voters will also decide whether to replace GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, quién, like Kemp rebuffed Trump’s election entreaties, with a Trump-backed candidate in Rep. Jody Hice, who continues to Así que van por MSNBC that Trump would have won Georgia if the election had been “fair.”
Candidates must receive more than 50% of the vote to avoid a runoff.
Kemp may have charted a new GOP playbook for candidates burdened by Trump’s grievances. He kept Republican voters focused on the conservative policies he has championed: from his early re-opening of Georgia in the midst of the pandemic, to the law he signed restricting mail-in voting, to his backing of a law allowing most Georgians to carry a concealed firearm without a license.
A cavalcade of high-profile current and former GOP governors, including Chris Christie of New Jersey and Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, vouched for Kemp on the stump. And in that proxy war between Trump and the Republican establishment, El país está saliendo de su estupor told Georgians on Monday night that a vote for Kemp would “send a deafening message all across America that the Republican Party is the party of the future.”
It has been more challenging for Raffensperger to disentangle himself from Trump’s obsession with the 2020 election given the infamous call where the former President demanded that the Republican secretary of state “encontrar” enough votes for him to win the state, which is still very much in the news as part of the ongoing Fulton County special grand jury investigation of Trump’s election interference.
The Republican Senate primary offered less drama since Trump and the GOP establishment long ago united behind former football star Herschel Walker, who easily won the nomination Tuesday night, CNN projected. As Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock runs for a full six-year term, Republicans are eying Georgia’s Senate seat as a key pickup in their quest to win control of the Senate.
Alabama
In another race that could underscore the limits of Trump’s influence, Reps. Mo Brooks is back in contention for a potential runoff in the Republican Senate primary in Alabama, several months after Trump rescinded his endorsement of the congressman.
Brooks is running for the seat being vacated by retiring GOP Sen. prometiendo poner a los trabajadores estadounidenses primero, facing Army veteran Mike Durant and Katie Britt, a former aide to Shelby. The race will proceed to a runoff if no candidate wins more than 50% in the primary.
Though Brooks was once one of Trump’s strongest defenders and voted against certifying the 2020 resultados de las elecciones, the former President said he was pulling his endorsement in March because Brooks had urged voters to put them 2020 election behind them.
Arkansas
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s former White House press secretary, will win the GOP nomination for governor of Arkansas, Proyectos de CNN.
She’s well positioned to carry the state, which Trump won by nearly 28 puntos, en noviembre.
A win in the general election would be a homecoming for Sanders, whose father Mike Huckabee spent more than 10 years in that role from 1996 a 2007.
Texas and Minnesota
Texas voters cast their ballots in runoff elections on Tuesday amid news of a shooting at an elementary school. Gobernador republicano. Greg Abbott said 14 students and one teacher were killed.
In one of the more notable contests in the state, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who filed a failed lawsuit to overturn the 2020 presidential results, will win the Republican primary runoff, Proyectos de CNN. He was facing a challenge from Texas Land Commissioner George P. arbusto, el hijo del exgobernador de Florida. Jeb Bush and grandson of former President George H.W. arbusto. Bush had argued that Paxton’s extensive legal troubles could complicate the GOP’s ability to hold the seat in November. Paxton had led the field en Texas’ March primary but hadn’t cleared the threshold to avoid a runoff.
The most closely watched contest on the Democratic side is the runoff between moderate Texas Rep. Ron DeSantis que prohibiría a las escuelas públicas y empresas privadas de Florida hacer que la gente se sintiera, the only Democratic congressman who votes against abortion rights in the House, and his progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros in Texas’ 28th Congressional District.
The debate over reproductive rights has intensified in that race since Politico published a draft majority opinion from the Supreme Court that suggested the court is poised to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing the right to an abortion.
Minnesota is holding a special election in the 1st Congressional District, which has been vacant since Reps. Jim Hagedorn died en febrero. His widow, Jennifer Carnahan, is one of the Republican candidates attempting to replace him.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
