{"id":1555009,"date":"2022-07-14T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555009"},"modified":"2022-07-14T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T21:20:21","slug":"abrams-rakes-in-out-of-state-cash-for-georgia-gubernatorial-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abrams-rakes-in-out-of-state-cash-for-georgia-gubernatorial-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrams Rakes In Out-of-State Cash for Georgia Gubernatorial Bid"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fabrams-rakes-in-out-of-state-cash-for-georgia-gubernatorial-bid%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=1555009&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>With their party primaries behind them, Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-stacey-abrams\">Stacey Abrams<\/a> and incumbent Republican Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-brian-kemp\">Brian Kemp<\/a> can now focus on each other as their grudge rematch for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-georgia\">Georgia<\/a> governor intensifies.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s general election features a rematch of the 2018 election, in which Kemp narrowly defeated Abrams by about 1.5 percentage points. Current polling shows a tight race, with Kemp holding a small lead over Abrams.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve got plenty of money for the campaign, particularly Abrams. Less than two months after the May primary, her One Georgia campaign group raised more than $18 million.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams\u2019s coffers are filled with large contributions from progressive megadonor George Soros and smaller ones from Hollywood celebrities such as Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Tom Hanks, and Bryan Cranston.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp and his Georgians First group have raised $7.6 million to date.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp\u2019s campaign is reaching some big donors in Texas but none who feature that kind of star power. Meanwhile, he doesn\u2019t need as much money, University of Georgia political scientist Charles Bullock says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn incumbent runs on his record,\u201d Bullock said. \u201cThey sometimes run away from it, but Brian [Kemp] won\u2019t do that. He\u2019s quite pleased with his three-and-a-half years [in office].\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/04\/11\/GettyImages-1232223914-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks at a news conference about the state\u2019s Election Integrity Law in Marietta, Ga., on April 10, 2021. (Megan Varner\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Bullock said that challengers need a lot of money to get their message out. They don\u2019t necessarily need to raise more than the incumbent, but the more they spend, the better they perform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey need enough to make the incumbent the issue. They have to make some voters rethink their decision [to vote for him].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How much money incumbents spend is inversely proportional to how well they\u2019re doing, he said. If they\u2019re doing well, they don\u2019t have to spend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With their party primaries behind them, Democrat Stacey Abrams and incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp can now focus on each other as their grudge rematch for Georgia governor intensifies. The governor\u2019s general election features a rematch of the 2018 election, in which Kemp narrowly defeated Abrams by about 1.5 percentage points. Current polling shows a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555009","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\/1555009","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\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}