Trump gets trounced in Georgia again | Washington Examiner

Its not clear what happened tonight to former President Donald Trump in the Georgia Republican primaries. Trump either got his butt kicked, his hat handed to him, or multiple eggs on his face. Or maybe he had to eat a flock of crows.

Either way, Georgia Republicans overwhelmingly rejected Trumps attempt to punish Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for refusing to help him steal Georgias electoral votes in 2020. After losing the state by just under 12,000 votes, Trump tried to ruin the careers of these two men, whose only sin was to follow the law dutifully despite his pressure to do the opposite. Instead of losing, both easily won renomination for their current offices against Trump-backed challengers David Perdue and Jody Hice, respectively. The Trump challengers' performance was, frankly, subpar.

Trump had not just given some sort of pro forma endorsements to Perdue and Hice. He went so far as to recruit Perdue, the former senator, to run against Kemp. Twice in the past three days, Trump repeated his endorsement of Perdue, again this morning in a rant against Kemp in which he asserted that David Perdue is a conservative fighter who has my Complete and Total Endorsement. (That's Trumps own capitalization.)

As I write this, with 95% of the expected vote counted, Kemp is shellacking Perdue 73% to 22%.

And Trump had been even more savage in his attacks on Raffensperger, who as the states chief election officer had told Trump in person that the former president's data was "wrong. At one point, Raffensperger had been given up as political dead meat.

The secretary of state's opponent, Jody Hice, is one of the Trumpiest of Republican congressmen. In a four-way race, all Hice had to do to force a runoff was to hold Raffensperger below 50%, but he couldnt even do that. While the results arent quite mathematically official as I write this, Raffensperger has declared victory. He appears to have won the nomination outright, with some room to spare.

Trump tried to make both Georgia races all about him and his grievances. Republican voters were having none of it. Trump is tonight's biggest loser Georgia voters just told him hes fired.

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