Republican Brian Kemp credits consistent, good management for his 8-point victory over Democrat Stacey Abrams in their second matchup for the Georgia governor’s office. In the end, Kemp was done in neither by the fierce national media criticisms of how he handled COVID, the corporate meltdown over the state’s new voting laws, the massive resources that poured in for Abrams, nor even by former President Donald Trump’s strident campaign against him in the state’s primary.
“Building off what our state's done in the past but also quite honestly implementing a lot of things that I campaigned on to strengthen rural Georgia. Couple that with great partners we have in the General Assembly to work with and I think that's, to me, a sign of a good leader that can get things done and have a record to run on,” he said.
“We won every single other constitutional office and we had a good night with our legislative candidates as well, and we got Herschel [Walker] in a runoff with Warnock," he said."It's tough beating an incumbent, but anytime you got an incumbent in a runoff in Georgia, there's an opportunity to knock them off."
As he did then, Kemp shrugs. “Two of the largest investment companies in the state, Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola, really were the ones that started that,” he said of the allegations the voting law would somehow suppress minority vote, “and then obviously Major League Baseball piled on; we had a lot we had to stand up to and push through. But I think when we did that, I stayed really focused on what our people wanted, not what the political pressure and a few people wanted.
“We had some regulations around that, but people could get out there and do some exercise and give their kids something to do," Kemp said."We had people from other states coming and putting in in our boat ramps because they just needed some sanity to get out on the lake and go fishing or do whatever."
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GovKemp realDonaldTrump staceyabrams Don’t exaggerate Salena…many Kemp policies since his day 1 EOs line up with Trump policies. They may be a tad out of sync on a personal level but not on policy, which is what we deal with here.
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GovKemp realDonaldTrump staceyabrams Trump is the biggest RINO in the Republican Party. He adopted popular Tea Party ideas (claimed them as his own) & said he was the only one that could do it. He destroyed the Tea Party & played Republicans, while claiming victim status for himself.
GovKemp realDonaldTrump staceyabrams GovKemp won because his policies work. Georgia never had mandates, just sustained job growth.
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