{"id":1490680,"date":"2022-05-24T20:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T00:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490680"},"modified":"2022-05-24T20:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T00:30:29","slug":"brian-kemp-wins-georgia-gop-gubernatorial-primary-will-face-democrat-stacey-abrams-in-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brian-kemp-wins-georgia-gop-gubernatorial-primary-will-face-democrat-stacey-abrams-in-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Kemp Wins Georgia GOP Gubernatorial Primary; Will Face Democrat Stacey Abrams In General"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrian-kemp-wins-georgia-gop-gubernatorial-primary-will-face-democrat-stacey-abrams-in-general%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490680&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Georgia candidates Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams locked up the GOP and Democratic gubernatorial nominations, respectively, on Tuesday night during the Peach State\u2019s primary, Decision Desk HQ has <a href=\"https:\/\/results.decisiondeskhq.com\/may24-2022-elections\/\">announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp, who was endorsed by former Vice President Mike Pence, defeated several other candidates, including former Senator David Perdue (R-GA) who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump. Abrams ran unopposed. On Monday, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-pence-to-participate-in-competing-georgia-gop-primary-campaign-events\">reported<\/a> that Pence appeared at a campaign rally for Kemp on Monday night. Trump also joined a tele-rally for Perdue on Monday, despite reports that he had backed away from his endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Kemp campaign, together with Fake News NBC, has put out a phony narrative that I have given up on David Perdue in Georgia,\u201d Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10837847\/Donald-Trump-denies-STOPPED-supporting-David-Perdue-race-Georgia-governor.html\">said<\/a> on his social media site, Truth Social, regarding that report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is completely false!\u201d he added. \u201cI am with David all the way because Brian Kemp was the worst governor in the country on election integrity!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pence, meanwhile, said that Kemp was his \u201cfriend, a man dedicated to faith, family and the people of Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud to offer my full support for four more years of Brian Kemp as governor of the great state of Georgia,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>As pointed out by Business Insider\u2019s Grace Panetta, Perdue is now the third Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate \u201cto lose in as many weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBREAKING: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wins the GOP nomination &#038; defeats Trump-endorsed primary challenger David Perdue, Insider and @DecisionDeskHQ project. Perdue is the third Trump-backed governor candidate to lose in as many weeks,\u201d Panetta tweeted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wins the GOP nomination &#038; defeats Trump-endorsed primary challenger David Perdue, Insider and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DecisionDeskHQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DecisionDeskHQ<\/a> project. Perdue is the third Trump-backed governor candidate to lose in as many weeks <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sie3a6qeqA\">https:\/\/t.co\/Sie3a6qeqA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zLhCJkWtjm\">pic.twitter.com\/zLhCJkWtjm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grace_panetta\/status\/1529249372562759680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With 23% of the vote in, Kemp has 126,502 votes, Perdue has 35,722, Kandiss Taylor has 5,735 votes, Catherine Davis has 1,434 votes, and Tom Williams has 471 votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This is a breaking story and will be updated. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia candidates Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams locked up the GOP and Democratic gubernatorial nominations, respectively, on Tuesday night during the Peach State\u2019s primary, Decision Desk HQ has announced. Kemp, who was endorsed by former Vice President Mike Pence, defeated several other candidates, including former Senator David Perdue (R-GA) who was endorsed by former President &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1486699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}