{"id":2284811,"date":"2024-06-27T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brian-kemp-didnt-vote-for-anybody-in-georgia-gop-presidential-primary-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T17:32:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:32:39","slug":"brian-kemp-didnt-vote-for-anybody-in-georgia-gop-presidential-primary-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brian-kemp-didnt-vote-for-anybody-in-georgia-gop-presidential-primary-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Kemp \u2018didn\u2019t vote for anybody\u2019 in Georgia GOP presidential primary &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">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-didnt-vote-for-anybody-in-georgia-gop-presidential-primary-washington-examiner%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=2284811&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>Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia did not participate in the voting during the Republican presidential primary earlier this year. He stated that he did not vote for Donald Trump or any other candidate. In an interview with CNN before the \u2064first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, 'Trump is a Tyrant' (VIDEO)\">presidential debate<\/a> in Atlanta, Kemp explained that he abstained from voting because he believed the race was already decided by the time it was Georgia&#8217;s turn to vote in the primary.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/brian-kemp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Brian Kemp\">Brian Kemp<\/a> (R-GA) did not vote for former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Brian Kemp\">Donald Trump<\/a> in the Republican presidential primary earlier this year \u2014 but he also did not vote for any other candidate in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp told <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cnn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CNN<\/a> on the eve of the first presidential debate in Atlanta that he did not vote in the primary. He argued that by the time Peach State voters were slated to weigh in on who the GOP nominee should be, the race had already been decided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t vote for anybody,\u201d Kemp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/26\/politics\/kemp-trump-georgia-vote\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a> on CNN\u2019s <em>The Source<\/em> on Wednesday. \u201cI voted. But I didn\u2019t vote for anybody. I mean, the race was already over when the primary got here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I wanted to go vote,\u201d he added. \u201cI always try to go vote and play a part in it. But look, at that point, it didn\u2019t really matter. I\u2019ve said, for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">long time<\/a> that I\u2019m going to support the ticket. That\u2019s what I\u2019m doing now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kemp reiterated his support for Trump in November as the GOP nominee and said he thought about supporting someone in the primary but decided against it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was the presumptive nominee before the primary ever got here,\u201d Kemp said. \u201cI mean, I didn\u2019t support anybody in the race. I mean, I was thinking about it. But just because a lot of circumstances, and the way things played out, I didn\u2019t end up doing that. But [I\u2019ve] said, all along, for the most part, that I will support the ticket. And that\u2019s what I\u2019ve always done. And that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing this November.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he would campaign alongside the former president in Georgia, the GOP governor said he would \u201csee how the race plays out\u201d and what the Trump campaign \u201cmight ask for or need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Georgia is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-sidney-powell-witness-whom-ny-times-described-as-always-the-smartest-person-in-the-room-concludes-hundreds-of-thousands-of-votes-transferred-from-trump-to-biden-in-all-battleground-states\/\" title=\"HUGE! Sidney Powell Witness Whom NY Times Described as \"Always the Smartest Person in the Room\" Concludes Hundreds of Thousands of Votes Transferred from Trump to Biden IN ALL BATTLEGROUND STATES\">key battleground states<\/a> in the presidential election in November between Trump and President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Trump lost the state to Biden in 2020 but has led in recent polls conducted in the Peach State. The <em>RealClearPolitics<\/em> polling average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/georgia\/trump-vs-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"shows\">shows<\/a> the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-trump-leads-2024-republican-primary-by-58-points\/\" title=\"Poll: Trump leads 2024 Republican Primary by 58 Points\">president leading<\/a> his successor, 46.2%-42.2%, in Georgia.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) disclosed to CNN that he abstained from voting in this year&#8217;s Republican presidential primary. His decision came ahead of the first presidential debate in Atlanta, confirming he did not support former President Donald Trump or any other candidate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2284812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/brian-kemp-donald-trump-2024.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[23131,4977,6203],"class_list":["post-2284811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-brian-kemp","tag-georgia","tag-gop"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/brian-kemp-donald-trump-2024.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284811","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\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}