{"id":1490693,"date":"2022-05-24T20:30:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T00:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490693"},"modified":"2022-05-24T20:31:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T00:31:40","slug":"gov-brian-kemp-wins-georgia-gop-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-brian-kemp-wins-georgia-gop-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Brian Kemp Wins Georgia GOP Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fgov-brian-kemp-wins-georgia-gop-primary%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=1490693&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>Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp won his party\u2019s gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, allowing the incumbent to run for a second term in the general election, according to several election forecasters.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp successfully fended off a primary challenge from former Republican Georgia Sen. David Perdue, who received former President Donald Trump\u2019s endorsement. The governor secured <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/04\/trump-georgia-loeffler-perdue-kemp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump\u2019s wrath<\/a> when he refused to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia over unsubstantiated claims of massive voter fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Perdue consistently underperformed in the polls, trailing Kemp by 25 points in RealClearPolitics\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/governor\/Georgia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">polling average<\/a>. He was the first 2022 candidate to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/14\/donald-trump-pac-david-perdue-brian-kemp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">receive a donation<\/a> from Trump\u2019s Save America PAC and had the former president as a guest at a rally in March, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/21\/us\/politics\/perdue-kemp-georgia-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The general election will be a rematch between Kemp and Stacey Abrams, who competed against each other in the 2018 gubernatorial race. Abrams became a national figure within the Democratic Party in the aftermath of her loss, which could hurt <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/04\/raphael-warnock-stacey-abrams-herschel-walker-brian-kemp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her chances<\/a> as she makes a second attempt at the office, Lakshya Jain, an election analyst who writes for Split Ticket, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7434939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7434939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former U.S. Senator and Republican candidate for Governor of Georgia David Perdue waves to supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump after speaking at a rally at the Banks County Dragway on March 26, 2022 in Commerce, Georgia. (Photo by Megan Varner\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The governor signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/31\/georgia-voting-bill-absentee-voting-id-requirement-food-water\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new state voting law<\/a> amid Republican concerns about election integrity, which many Democrats accused of disenfranchising voters. Abrams <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/26\/jim-crow-2-0-critics-georgia-bill-kemp-abrams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called<\/a> the new regulations \u201cJim Crow 2.0.,\u201d but as of Friday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/23\/georgia-record-voter-turnout-new-voting-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">number of early in-person<\/a> votes in Georgia was three times higher than that of 2018 and higher than that of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp also signed into law an income tax relief bill, substituting the progressive income tax with a top rate of 5.75% to a flat 4.99% income tax by 2029, Forbes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/patrickgleason\/2022\/04\/29\/governor-brian-kemp-signed-an-income-tax-cut-this-week--stacey-abrams-wont-tell-georgians-whether-she-would-repeal-it\/?sh=21a47b8042cf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump did not make any personal visits in support of Perdue in the weeks before election day, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/trump-washes-hands-perdue-georgia-campaign-limps-final-stretch-rcna29714\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Perdue\u2019s campaign scheduled $0 worth of dollars for ads in the last week of the race. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/29\/pivotal-primary-races-2022-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Here Are The 12 Pivotal Primary Races Of 2022)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kemp was endorsed by former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/02\/george-w-bush-brian-kemp-event-trump-00029476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George W. Bush<\/a> and former Republican Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/13\/pence-georgia-rally-kemp-00032306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Pence<\/a>, Politico reported. Bush <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/04\/george-w-bush-brian-kemp-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">held a fundraiser<\/a> for Kemp in May, while Pence headlined a rally for him the same month.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp won his party\u2019s gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, allowing the incumbent to run for a second term in the general election, according to several election forecasters.Kemp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":1490716,"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-1490693","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\/1490693","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}