Donald Trump’s influence in the Republican Party hit Tuesday with the massive defeat of the former presidential -backed candidate in an important primary election in Georgia.
Its Republican governor, Brian Kemp, won the primary for his re -election on Tuesday against David Perdue, a candidate in which Donald Trump tried to use all of his political influence.
In this American state of 10 million inhabitants, won a haircut by Joe Biden in November 2020, the Republican billionaire has dedicated his efforts for a year and a half to try to prove that the election is for him in leadership. stolen because it should widespread fraudnot proven.
In this electoral soap opera, Donald Trump continues to attack the role of Brian Kemp, who refused to reverse the 2020 ballot results, and tried to oust him from his position as governor.
But on Tuesday night, David Perdue accepted defeat, which didn’t go directly to the former president, as preliminary results put him 50 points behind Brian Kemp, the winner.
Five other states are also leading their primaries for midterm elections scheduled for November, but the eyes of the American political world were turned on Tuesday night in Georgia.
Brian Kemp drops Georgiastill denounced in a press release Tuesday morning the billionaire, who called the trumpet activists of this state in the southeastern United States to oppose his candidacy in large numbers.
Instead, the former White House tenant offered his sponsorship to former senator David Perdue, more fond of theories. electoral irregularitieswhich millions of Americans still believe.
David Perdue is my full supportwas assured the former president on Tuesday, who injected more than $ 2.5 million of his own campaign fund into its septuagenarian candidacy.
Trump’s stranglehold on the Republican Party?
David Perdue’s defeat calls into question the strangulation that Donald Trump is still doing in the Republican Party, because he invested in this campaign, in addition to funds, a large part of his political influence.
Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s former vice president who is recognized for the president’s ambitions, understands the stakes well.
The 60-year-old, who like Brian Kemp has refused to block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the presidency, traveled to Georgia this week to personally campaign for the gubernatorial candidate.
I supported Brian Kemp before it was coolhe launched from a small airport in the suburbs of Atlanta.
In addition to selecting the gubernatorial candidate, Georgia voters were also asked to vote in a host of local seats. And in each case, it was a version of the match between these two types of candidates-those preventing the reversal of the 2020 election against those who cried fraud-that was replayed.
For the post of state attorney general, the candidate backed by Donald Trump was also defeated.
And at the heart of all the greed is the position of Georgia’s Secretary of State, the person responsible for overseeing the smooth running of elections and who many Americans probably didn’t know existed before the last presidential election.
And for good reason, Brad Raffensperger, the man refused Find nearly 12,000 ballots in Donald Trump’s name despite a stunning phone call from the billionaire, represents himself.
According to preliminary results on a third of the ballots counted on Tuesday night, he had a good lead against Jody Hice, a man backed by the former president who-like dozens of others across the country-promises to restore integrity voting in the United States.
Source: Radio-Canada
